Peter Vadala, 24, worked as a deputy manager at a Brookstone gifts store at Boston's Logan Airport until August, he said. A woman visiting from another store mentioned her female fiance. Gay marriage is legal in Massachusetts.

"As a Christian, I think that's bad stuff," Vadala said in his video. The co-worker warned him she would speak to human resources, he said.

"HR, buddy, keep your opinions to yourself," he said he was told.

In the YouTube, Vadala says the Bookstone training video indicated an employee could be fired for resisting homosexual overtures.

Brookstone's president and CEO said in a statement that company officials do not discuss personnel matters publicly, and that a "thorough and fair investigation" had been completed.

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Comment from Carol-

Hi Henry, over and over again I see examples of how the very fundamental principals expressed by the British government  to justify sending their troops to fight Germany in the 2^nd world world have progressively been denigraded by the institutions of our socalled 'modern, free and just' West and that  the opposing ideals to freedom have increasingly become common place in a vast majority of our  social institutions.

Lord Halifax, Foreign Minister, on British committment to war [1.3MB]

Excerpt: "... If Hitler were to succeed it would signal the end of all we say makes life worth living... what do we mean when we say that we are fighting for freedom?

We want to live our own life as we like and not have to look over their shoulders all the time to see if the Gestapo is listening. We want to worship God as we like, and this religious freedom based on conscience, we will not let go of, for conscience is not something you want to hand over to anyone else, but in Germany they have given their conscious to Hitler, so that they've become machines merely fulfilling orders without considering whether they are right or wrong..."

As was described through the testimony of Peter Vadala, he would have spent a full work day back in August in the company of a co-worker from another branch of the same franchise who, when noticing that Peter hadn't initially voice a generalized 'sanctifying' of a somewhat unusual aspect to her upcoming wedding, at the moment that this would have been revealed to him,  she would have set herself to prodding him throughout the remainder of the day on what was henceforward a controversial 'issue' ( in Peter's mind ) until the moment where Peter would have finally rebuked these advances on the part of his co-worker by stating, in so many words that, based on his individual conscience, he could, in no uncertain terms, yeild himself over to her provocations on the subject. The prodding on the part of the co-worker would have effectively ended at this point.

Peter Vadala's act of standing up in defense of his conscience is what was subsequently harvested by the co-worker at the end of the day and she then applied the content of his 'defense' statement towards making a point against the principal of freedom of conscience on her 'pet' social issue at the company's administration level.

Form my individual perspective, Peter has been a victim of harassment - but of what kind - I think that this should be legally defined.

As stated at the top of my letter, I consistently see contemporary examples of how the social positioning vis a vis the concept of duality expressed by Lord Halifax back to the early 1940s, on the subject of basic freedom, has all but flipped. Today, we increasingly find ourselves having to confront a social consensus which demands of us that we adopt the principals belonging to the negative side of this duality. ex. << hand over our conscience to any and everyone as well as follow orders without considering whether they are right or wrong >>.