Oh man. Opened it this morning ticked yes about to go down to the post office.
Then I read this.
http://www.news.com.au/finance/work...t/news-story/4ed027f47b5810e87036450054a8b6dd
People like this boss make me want to tear it up and hope for a no result. No way should people like that get their way. Guess I'll still be posting it in response to excessive Christian interest. The whole thing is just a whole non issue. It's not like being gay is illegal, we're merely talking about a piece of paper nothing changes for them really. Shame there are many other groups who actually miss out and don't receive the amount of public attention and support that gays do.
We don't know how far the employee went with their public declarations. If it really was just "it's OK to vote no" then this seems like a case of unfair dismissal and against freedom of political speech.
If it was "shut up ya bloody poofters" then fire away.
“Advertising your desire to vote no for SSM is, in my eyes, hate speech. Voting no is homophobic. Advertising your homophobia is hate speech. As a business owner I can’t have somebody who publicly represents my business posting hate speech online.
“1. Its bad for business. 2. I don’t like s**t morals. 3. I don’t want homophobes working for me, especially in an environment with children.
“It’s not okay to vote no. It’s not okay to be homophobic. This isn’t a matter of opinion or even religion. It’s a matter of the love and livelihood of real human beings. Freedom of speech is there for a reason and so are consequences. Vote against homophobia. Vote for equality. Vote yes.”
She added that it was a “you’re voting no, you’re fired situation”.
“There were prior conversations had,” she wrote. “As a business that works with children of all kinds, we have a responsibility to working with vulnerable people and having someone who is out and proud about their beliefs (of which are statistically proven to have horrible effects on young members of the gay community) is a risk for the wellbeing of the children we work with.”