April 25, 2000 -- 9:28 am
Christian Social Worker Fired By Homosexual Boss
INDEPENDENCE, MO (BP -- Larry Phillips loves children. So much so, the
46-year-old Baptist from Independence, Mo., dedicated himself to a low-
paying career helping the most abused, neglected and forgotten kids find a
safe haven while the judicial system decided their fate.
What Phillips didn't expect was a battle with an office supervisor, who
described himself in a newspaper interview as an "in your face queer who
gets angrier every day."
As a social worker for the Missouri Department of Social Services,
Phillips was in charge of interviewing abused children and finding them
quality foster care homes in which to live while the judicial system
decided their fate.
Last fall, he sued his employer for discrimination and won $86,000 in
damages and attorney fees. Another trial is scheduled the week of April 24
to consider three more counts of discrimination Phillips has raised
against his former employer. Phillips is represented by the American
Center for Law and Justice, Virginia Beach, Va.
"My work environment was totally bizarre," Phillips told Baptist Press.
"The supervisor in question was very anti-heterosexual and wanted everyone
to know it, and wanted everyone to agree with him and his work strategies
to encourage children to at least experiment with homosexual sex. I could
not abide by this, especially from a state office charged with protecting
already abused, traumatized children who already were at their most
vulnerable point.
"After three years, a homosexual foster parent can adopt the child. This
gives them a back door into the adoption process. After they adopt the
child, they then believe they are free to raise them any way they want,
and in truth, with laws seeming more and more to protect such perverted
behavior, this strategy is paying dividends for the homosexual movement,"
Phillips said.
When he took a stand opposing a sexually explicit brochure which the male
homosexual supervisor insisted all of his subordinates carry and
distribute to foster children and to school children during talks at
public schools, Phillips said he was taunted for 20 months on the job and
eventually fired.
Sponsors of the pamphlets included the local AIDS education program for
Jackson County, which is licensed by the state of Missouri, Planned
Parenthood, the militant homosexual group ACT- UP and an HIV organization,
Phillips said.
"This was one sick piece of literature they were passing out, with sick
drawings and language, including [profanity], that would get a radio
station's license revoked if read over the air," Phillips said.
Called, "What They Won't Teach You in School," the brochure reads, in
part, "Sex can be a lot of things, women with women, men have sex with
men, women have sex with men -- and sometimes the best sex is with
yourself."
"The supervisor in question is a very militant homosexual who has no
business serving as supervisor of Child Abuse Neglect. Having a militant
homosexual in that job is more than bizarre if you think about it,"
Phillips said. "While I was working there, he began to actively promote
the homosexual agenda everywhere, all the time."
Phillips said the supervisor was brazen in supporting the homosexual
lifestyle, even having a cynical poster on his office wall that questioned
the causes for heterosexuality.
The supervisor, who Phillips said he would not name to avoid any
repercussion from the judge, once walked into Phillips' office with a
baseball bat, smacking it against his hand in a threatening way. Phillips
said he testified in the first court case about this, as well as the
pamphlets and other subtle and obvious forms of harassment he endured on
the job.
"I could not in good conscience support his active promotion at work of
what I believe is a perverted lifestyle. I crossed him early on by saying
I would not support his search to find homosexual foster parents for the
children I was charged to protect," Phillips said. The supervisor was so
blatant in his lobbying for the homosexual lifestyle that he even poured
tainted blood in the city council chambers, but was not arrested, Phillips
said.
"It was a bizarre time. This was not just about one homosexual, but one
agency supporting a whole homosexual agenda. This is about the director of
the State Division of Family Services, and two different supervisors,
wanting to actively license and recruit homosexual foster parents,"
Phillips said.
"Kids in the foster care system are at their most vulnerable stage. They
are very needy, often already abused victims of sexual and physical abuse,
crying out for help, wanting a mom and dad. I had a child, age 9, beg me
to get her out of the home of a lesbian. She was very afraid. As a result
of that interview with her, I was called into my direct supervisor's
office and told not to register that in my report. I registered it anyway.
Eventually the girl got out of that situation," Phillips said.
In October 1999, Phillips won a lawsuit charging his employer with
discrimination, based on his religious beliefs. A judge recently upheld
the jury's decision, turning down an appeal of the trial by the state.
Phillips was awarded $26,000 in actual and punitive damages and $60,000 in
attorney fees. The state has indicated it will appeal those payments to a
higher court.
A new trial has been ordered to begin April 26 to try three more counts of
discrimination by the Department of Social Services for the state of
Missouri against Phillips. The new trial has been ordered because the jury
in the October 1999 trial was deadlocked on three additional charges of
discrimination Phillips raised against his former employer.
On March 29 of this year, U.S. District Judge Nanette K. Laughrey denied
Missouri's motion to overturn that verdict. The judge also awarded
Phillip's attorneys from the ACLJ $60,000 in fees.
Neither the punitive damages nor the attorney fees have been paid as yet,
said Francis J. Manion, regional director of the Midwest office of the
ACLJ, who served as lead attorney in defending Phillips.
The judge ordered a settlement conference April 17, but Manion said the
Attorney General's office for the state of Missouri said it will not agree
to settle the case. "They offered us $5,000 to walk away. Needless to say,
we will not. We will go to court next week and hope to win," he said.
"We were willing to accept the jury's verdict and the punitive damages and
attorneys fees, but the state of Missouri has said it intends to keep
fighting and will not settle," Manion said. "By ruling to uphold the
original trial verdict and awarding attorney fees, the court sends a
strong message that government officials must not take action against
employees because of their religious beliefs."
(� 2000, Charisma News Service)
http://www.mcjonline.com/news/00/20000424e.htm
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