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IKEA is being sued by a former employee who claims he was fired for refusing to take down anti-gay comments from the company's intranet. On May 16, International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia, the Swedish furniture maker posted an article on its internal website, underscoring support for the LGBT community. The post also encouraged employees to ask customers what pronoun they preferred and engage in conversations with LGBT customers about their partners and families. That didn't sit right with at least one employee in Warsaw, identified only as Tomasz K. He told Polish state broadcaster TVP Info, "I've been hired to sell furniture but I'm a Catholic and these aren't my values." Tomasz posted a comment to the article, reportedly writing that "acceptance and promotion of homosexuality and other deviations is a source of scandal." He also included two Bible verses: One, Matthew 18:6, reads, "Woe to him through whom scandals come, it w

An Ikea worker in Poland has been sacked for quoting Bible verses condemning the sin of homosexuality in a case strikingly similar to Israel Folau’s battle with Rugby Australia, except this worker is unknown, not a football star just an ordinary worker. IKEA believes it knows better than God. SACKED BECAUSE OF HIS BELIEFS The worker, named in local media only as Tomasz K, has filed a lawsuit accusing the world’s largest furniture retailer of religious discrimination, sparking outrage in the heavily Catholic country where LGBT rights lag well behind the developed world. Mr Tomasz, a long-term employee at the Krakow store, was sacked after he refused to take down Bible verses he posted in response to a notice on the company’s intranet promoting a pro-LGBT event in May. “I was shaken up,” he told Polish national broadcaster TVP Info on Thursday, “I’ve been hired to sell furniture but I’m a Catholic and these aren’t my values.” HOMOSEXUAL MADNESS AT IKEA Ikea had asked wo