Rolling Meadows woman accuses Office Depot of religious discrimination

It also decries “the evil that has been exposed in Planned Parenthood and in the entire abortion industry”. Olp said he will file complaints with the Cook County Human Rights Commission and Illinois Department of Human Rights if the company doesn’t respond in five days.

The repeated refusal has prompted the Thomas More Society to inform Office Depot’s Chairman and CEO Ronald Smith that continued refusal will prompt legal action against the chain. Click play to watch CBN anchor Lorie Johnson’s interview with attorney Thomas Olp, with the Thomas More Society.

She was told, however, by an Office Depot employee that the printing of her flyer was “restricted by corporate policy” and that her order would not be filled.

Office Depot policy “prohibits the copying of ‘graphic material, ‘ which can include descriptions of dead or dismembered bodies”, he adds. “Office Depot is trying to silence my freedom of speech and my freedom of religion”.

Pavone’s prayer asks God to “Bring an end to the killing of children in the womb, and bring an end to the sale of their body parts”. The company claimed the prayers advocate the persecution of people who support abortion and said that was the reason why it could not fulfill the print order for the flyers. “We don’t want to allow people to pick and choose based on their bigotry or hostility”, he said.

“I am proud of Maria Goldstein for standing up for her rights, and I call upon Office Depot to reconsider this decision by evaluating more carefully the words of the prayer and the intent of its author”, Pavone said.

Says she just wanted copies of the prayer, which was written by a Catholic priest, to hand out at church on Sunday.

“I feel discriminated against”, she said.

The prayer campaign that utilizes this Prayer for the Conversion of Planned Parenthood, and several other prayers with a similar theme, launches again this Saturday, September 12 and runs through the 20th. “You need to offer services to the public on a fair and equal basis”. The public accommodation laws do not give any greater leeway for refusal of service when a customer’s religious expression motivates the refusal. “If it was simply negative comments about Planned Parenthood, it wouldn’t be as strong of an argument”. The state’s Human Rights Act prohibits discrimination for a variety of reasons, including religion. “I’d appreciate them printing the flier”.

It also said Planned Parenthood committed 327,653 abortions in 2013 and there “are 9,170 federally qualified health centers who provide health services (but NOT abortions) to low-income populations, compared to about 700 Planned Parenthood clinics”.

Who teach others to reject parenthood. “We stand today for the triumph of truth over falsehood, of light over darkness, and of life over death”. There are companies that salvage the body parts and resell them for research.