IKEA worker sacked for posting Bible quotes
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