Liberty U IT department getting sued

| November 4, 2024

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Sometimes you just gotta think “there’s something in that person’s head that just ain’t right.” Today we look at one such.

Normal folk do stupid stuff. Not by choice – usually normal folks get out of bed in the morning, try to make it through the day without stepping on essential anatomy bits, and go to bed satisfied that while maybe it wasn’t a stellar day, it wasn’t unbearably bad. How do they do that? In the famous word, they “don’t tug on Superman’s cape, they don’t spit into the wind. They don’t pull the mask off the old Lone Ranger” – you get the point. But they try not to be intentionally a dumb-ass.

Now we have this young information technology type… Ellenor Zinski. She applied for a job at Liberty University, one of the most conservative universities around. Founded by Jerry Falwell, Sr. who was succeeded by his son Jerry Falwell, Jr. (both of whom got caught dipping their pens in the wrong inkwells ifyaknowhatImean) – the school is nothing else if not 1) Conservative 2) Unforgiving of those who don’t uphold their standards (nominally Christian.) Even the FOUNDER had to go when he got caught, right?

The lawsuit on behalf of Ellenor Zinski was filed in July by the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia and the Richmond law firm of Butler Curwood. It alleges that she was fired last year from her job on Liberty’s Information Technology help desk solely because of her gender identity, in violation of the U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Now, normally this case would be a slam dunk in the modern Woke world, whether you agree with interpreting the ’64 Act like that. But…

Earlier this month, the conservative legal organization Liberty Counsel filed a brief on behalf of the university asking the federal district court to dismiss the lawsuit. The brief contends that the Civil Rights Act explicitly permits religious educational institutions to make employment decisions consistent with their religious doctrine — in this case a doctrinal statement asserting that “denial of birth sex by self-identification with a different gender” is sinful.

The brief filed by Liberty Counsel alleges that Zinski attempted to “set up” the university, applying for the IT job four months after beginning to take female hormones yet agreeing — when offered the job in February 2023 — to adhere to the school’s statement rejecting transgender transition.

Only after a 90-day probation ended did Zinski notify the university of the gender transition process and then request that the school “depart from its doctrine and mission,” Liberty Counsel said in an effort to get the lawsuit dismissed.

But she is still a staunch Christian, he/she says. A biological guy, right? Applied as a woman, agreed to adhere to their policies, and concealed his/her ‘status’ only until AFTER the new-employee probationary period (during which, no doubt, he/she would have been immediately terminated) ended. Yeah, no deceptive intent HERE, right?

Wyatt Rolla, the ACLU of Virginia’s senior transgender rights attorney, rejected the claim of a set-up.

“It’s strange to disparage Ellenor over what turned out to be real concern with employment discrimination,” they said. “Her intention was to be a highly successful employee for Liberty who continued to meet all of her obligations.”

Zinski, 30, says she was raised as a conservative Christian, attended a Christian high school, and took the job at Liberty hoping the university — which she had admired — would accept her even after learning of her transition.  NBC News

“Who continued to meet all her obligations” – like the schools public rejection of transgender transition? You start as a guy, they say you need to stay a guy. He/she agreed to it. That doesn’t sound like meeting their obligations.

Oh, and Zinski wants $300,000 and says he/she is distressed that people don’t want her at the school. Bet you could have guessed that money is involved, huh?

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USAFRetired

Someone wanted their fifteen minutes of fame.

A Proud Infidel®™

Another “crusader” wanting attention, nothing more.

Fyrfighter

As if we needed more evidence that this tranny crap is metal illness wrapped in narcissism…

President Elect Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH Neande

“mental”

Odie

Just trying to get precedence set, through the courts, that their weirdness be accepted. And what better place than a conservative, Christian university. This opens the door to gender affirming care through the university provided employee insurance.

Call it a Trojan horse, or poking the camals nose under the tent, searching for a way in. See also Colorado baker.

SFC D

It’s the next stage after forcing a Christian baker to violate his religious beliefs. This dumbass knew the rules going in, violated the rules, then screamed “unfair!” I scream “Fuck Off!”

Odie

Agreed, but shout it with emphasis and vigor. Or something like that.

Odie

I don’t think he was forced. I seem to recall the courts sided with the baker, but they extracted a boat load of money in legal fees I’m sure he didn’t have. Not sure if the gay “couple” were made to repay his legal fees.

SFC D

I should’ve said “attempted to force” the baker. He’s won several times but they keep trying. Court says he cannot be compelled to make a custom order, he has the right to turn down the work. As it should be. Yet, they persist.

Odie

When they won’t take no for an answer. Hell, the word is right there in the middle of the alphabet.
l m NO p …

A Proud Infidel®™

Or forcing Catholic Hospitals to perform abortions.

SFC D

They wont even perform any kind of contraceptive procedures. As is their right.

KoB

“…is still a staunch Christian…” Well if he/she/? is such a staunch Christian then why is he/she violating a number of those Texts that were downloaded on a Tablet from a Cloud?

Graybeard

Regardless of what one claims, such as “staunch Christian”, “faithful/good Catholic”, etc. Jesus said:

[Mat 7:15-16, 20 KJV] 15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. 16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? … 20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.

No, folks. You are self deceived heretics still in your sins.

5JC

James 2:14-26

New International Version (NIV)
14 What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? 15 Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. 16 If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? 17 In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.

18 But someone will say, “You have faith; I have deeds.”

Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by my deeds. 19 You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that—and shudder.

20 You foolish person, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is useless[a]? 21 Was not our father Abraham considered righteous for what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar? 22 You see that his faith and his actions were working together, and his faith was made complete by what he did. 23 And the scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,”[b] and he was called God’s friend. 24 You see that a person is considered righteous by what they do and not by faith alone.

25 In the same way, was not even Rahab the prostitute considered righteous for what she did when she gave lodging to the spies and sent them off in a different direction? 26 As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.

Andy11M

Sounds like a story a guy in Combat Camera told me back when “Don’t ask, don’t tell” was the law of the land. Remember that? Give them an inch and all that?
This Combat Camera guy told me while he was in AIT, there was a clearly bull dyke lesbian in his class. Nobody said anything. When she finished AIT and got to her first unit, she promptly informed the chain of command of her homosexuality, and was discharged for violating DADT. Then immediately walked into a high paying job with her MOS training. I’m sure that was never her plan at all.

A Proud Infidel®™

Sounds to me like that was her plan right from the get-go!

President Elect Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH Neande

“…..raised as a conservative Christian….”
Apparently those conservative Christian teachings didn’t stick in your mind, otherwise you wouldn’t be transitioning.

One may have the best teachers in the world, but if one is unwilling to learn, they are useless.

Witness: Judas Iscariot.

Green Thumb

All-Points Logistics is hiring.

Army-Air Force Guy

Ol’ Phil was pretty good at also pretending he was something that he wasn’t.

rgr769

Very simply, “she,” he, it perpetrated a fraud on her employer when she accepted the job. She represented that it would abide by and support the school’s opposition to transgederism, yet she planned to disclose her transition after her period of probation expired. Her conduct meets all the elements of fraud. The school should counter sue for rescission of her/its employment contract. The fraud obviates the employer’s agreement to employ her.

Odie

In a rational and sane court, this will be dismissed with prejudice. It will be interesting to see which court this lands in.

Anybody else remember when the phrase “don’t make a federal issue out of it” was just a joke?

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rgr769

The lawsuit was filed in the federal court in Western Virginia.

Odie

Missed that part. Are there any rational or sane judges in the federal court in western Virginia?