Top Cisco employee reportedly fired for defending marriage, family
Image via Wikipedia The American -based multinational corporation Cisco Systems , a company that touts its “inclusion and diversity ” strategies, has come under attack for the recent firing of a top employee, reputedly over his off-the-job work defending true marriage. Earlier this year, the company fired Dr. Frank Turek , Cisco’s leadership and teambuilding program co-ordinator, after receiving complaints from a homosexual manager with the company regarding Turek’s authorship of a book on homosexuality and marriage, entitled “ Correct, not Politically Correct: How Same-Sex Marriage Hurts Everyone .” According to Cisco management, Turek’s work with the company had received nothing but praise. In fact, in the manager’s complaint to the company he commended the leadership program lead by Turek as “excellent,” but took issue with his political and religious views, which he considered inconsistent with the values of the company. “I was fired as a vendor by Cisco for m...