| PJI sues to halt City of Los Angeles from cheating employees out of religious accommodations September 15, 2021 Media Contact: Brad Dacus, 916-616-4126 (Spanish: 206-257-3239)LOS ANGELES—Pacific Justice Institute (PJI) and affiliate attorney Daniel Watkins filed a federal lawsuit last week on behalf of Los Angeles Police Department employees to bar the City from depriving employees of their rights to seek religious accommodations to the COVID-19 vaccine mandates. The City announced a COVID-19 vaccine mandate on August 20, 2021, for not only full-time and part-time City employees, but also individuals such as volunteers, interns, 120-day retired employees, and elected officials. The City set a deadline of September 7 for employees to submit religious accommodation requests and comply with mask requirements, physical distancing, weekly COVID-19 testing, and vaccine training. However, neither the City nor the LAPD implemented a procedure to submit or review religious accommodation requests before the deadline, leaving hundreds of LAPD employees with no choice but to submit religious accommodation requests without direction. The LAPD obstructed the processing of nearly half of those religious accommodation requests and has not yet processed the rest. Unvaccinated LAPD employees who sought accommodations have since endured an onslaught of hostile demands, threats of being terminated, and accusations from commanding officers, such as statements that they lack “sympathy and caring” for COVID-19 issues and that they are “unfit to wear the uniform.” On Friday, September 10, the City at last provided an online portal for employees to submit their accommodation requests. But the City announced that the portal would close on Monday, September 13, and would not accept requests submitted outside the short 72-hour window. “PJI stands with these LAPD employees who, instead of being provided an avenue to exercise their constitutional and statutory rights to request accommodations, were shamed and cheated out of those rights by their own Department,” stated Brad Dacus, President of PJI. “We have asked the court to require the City to respect and immediately accommodate employees who have sincerely held religious beliefs.” PJI and Daniel Watkins of Watkins & Letofsky, LLP initiated this case, Burcham, et al. v. City of Los Angeles, et al., Case No. 2:21-cv-07296, in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. To see the Complaint filed in this case, click here. |
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Tolerant and Inclusive: Man Pretending to Be A Woman Takes Liberty and Rights, But Threatens Anyone Who Disagrees with Him with Lawsuits
Gina Roberts bullies women who do not agree with his delusion.
He got into an extended discussion on Facebook some time ago, in which he went out of his way–yes, HIS–to justify his decision to pretend to be a woman and make everyone else go along with the fraud.
Just to recap, here he celebrates getting elected President of the Escondido Republican Women Federated:
When I questioned him about this, here are the responses that I received from him:
A man pushes this lie that he is a woman.
He then claims that this is “pro-rights” and “pro-liberty”. Really.
Of course, I had more words to respond to that:
Notice that in order to enforce his “right” to use a women’s restroom, he has “3 or 4 organizations to file and fight the lawsuit for me.”
So, this man pretending to be a woman, who claims that he is pro-rights and pro-liberty, is all about using the force of government and legal bullying to get his way and make everyone expect the lie that he is a she.
Really.
Oh, and it gets better–or worse:
Earlier in the above thread, Gina played the “Christianity” and “Jesus” card, as though to make me feel bad for speaking the truth and calling out Gina’s behavior. That did not work. I cited Jesus’ own words during His earthly ministry, in which he outlined clearly and completely that God made them “male and female.” God did a good job, and there is no reason for anyone person to push back on this:
“Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?” (Isaiah 45:9)
Gina tried every effort to shame me and threaten with lawsuits, but I am not intimidated by this.
Of course, this is not the first time that MR. Gina Roberts has brought up lawsuits and legal action:
For the longest time, people have rebuffed concerns from people such as myself about this LGBT agenda. They would tell me “Arthur, just live and let live. This has nothing to do with you. What do you care what two consenting adults do in private, or whether a man wants to pretend that he is a she?”
This is the reason why. The above examples are reasons why. This nonsense, this fraud is corrupting our culture, and teaching people to embrace lies and endorse delusions. This hurts children. This makes public spaces unsafe and insecure. This promotes laws and undermines the fundamental fabric of trust and truth which is essential for men and women to dwell safely and live freely.
This LGBT agenda is a political force that demands and demands, all while claiming to be tolerant and inclusive. This is not tolerance. This is tyranny, and it must be rebuffed and rejected full-bore and outright.
Contact the Escondido Republican Women Federated, the California Republican Women Federated, and the National Federation of Republican Women, and DEMAND that the Escondido chapter remove the man pretending to be a woman, or demand that leadership strip the charter away from the federated group entirely.
Escondido Republican Women Federated:
Phone Number: (760) 224-9281
Email: EscondidoRWF@cfrw.org
Linda Alvarez, President, Escondido Republican Women Federated
Email: republicanlinda@gmail.com
Email: jandfam@gmail.com
California Republican Women Federated
National Republican Women Federated
Phone Number: (703) 548-9688
Email: lmatro@nfrw.org
President Ann Schockett, National Federation of Republican Women
Email: aschockett@nfrw.org
Breaking: Ventura Candidate Sues to Restore Citizen Right to Run for County Office
Press Release Jan 10th, 2018
Court battle to restore citizens right to run for the public office of elected County Sheriff.
The County of Ventura, at the expense of the taxpayers, has filed it’s reply to our brief, and we have filed our response. The case is now fully briefed.
The County, chose to not even attempt to rebut our argument that the CA Legislature has no authority to impose a ‘ballot requirement” over what is specified in our CA Constitution. The CA Constitution is quite clear in “Article 1 Section 7(b) A citizen or class of citizens may not be granted privileges or immunities not granted on the same terms to all citizens.” The CA Constitution calls for the ‘election of county sheriffs’. There are no ‘qualifications’ as to who may run as all adult citizens have the right to run for all public offices.
The County failed to even attempt to rebut our citing of three different cases that confirm that it is the right of the citizens to run for public office.
The County refused to even attempt to rebut our citing of Baca v. Los Angeles that confirmed that not even a ballot initiative can impose a requirement on the elected office of County Sheriff.
The County refused to attempt to rebut our citing of the Colorado case that an elected Sheriff may not be ‘required” to be ‘certified” in way other than to be elected to be the County Sheriff and receive the compensation for that office.
The County tries to argue that a case filed by a presumptive write-in candidate, who acted as his own attorney, who argued a vague right to have his votes be counted as a ’free speech issue”. The County’s only argument , that they make over and over… is that the County Clerk, Mark Lunn, has a legal responsibility to carry out the law. We do not disagree, we only argue that the ‘law” is unconstitutional. We now wait on a trial date: Without wanting to seem overconfident, we are however extremely confident that we will prevail. No doubt the County will appeal to the State Supreme Court. We will prevail, the County just wishes to continue to deny the citizens their right to run fro ALL public offices and vote for the candidates of THEIR choice. The County BofS seems most willing to spend ALL of our tax dollars to pursue this.
We expect that this ruling , s the law was Statewide, will result in the Court finding that ALL County Sheriff elections results as invalid. Expect 58 statewide County Sheriff elections with public citizens on the ballot!
For more details refer to previous press releases, of contact me.
In Liberty,
Bruce Boyer candidate for Ventura County Sheriff
BruceBoyerforSheriff@Gmail.com
(805) 422-3005 (805) 339-9202
BruceforSheriff.org
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