Lifeguard who took down Pride flags at beach sues L.A. County over religious discrimination

[Zorro]

A longtime Los Angeles County lifeguard stationed in Pacific Palisades near a stretch beloved by gay beachgoers is suing the county for requiring him to work feet away from a Pride flag last summer and punishing him for taking three of the flags down.

The lawsuit, filed in federal court May 24 a week before this year’s Pride month kicks off, brings the county’s sparkling coastline squarely into the nation’s culture wars.

Jeffrey Little, an evangelical Christian who has worked for the county for more than 22 years, is represented by attorneys from the Thomas More Society, a conservative Catholic legal group known for challenging abortion rights, the 2020 election results and same-sex marriage.

In a show of support for LBGTQ+ constituents, officials with both the city of Los Angeles and L.A. County have recently pushed to raise the Pride flag at government buildings. Last year, the county board of supervisors voted to require that many government buildings fly the Progress Pride flag throughout Pride month.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-29/christian-lifeguard-sues-la-county-over-pride-flag-on-beach

[Lovie777]

1. Oh please, just stop it.......................................

[AllaN01Bear]

2. snork. agree with poster no 1

[AllaN01Bear]

3. well whah

[orange jar]

4. So what he's saying is that

he needs a safe space? Huh. Interesting.

[CousinIT]

5. HE is the one discriminating! I'm so sick of these self-entitled hypocrites.

They stomp all over other people's rights and then scream and whine that they are being discriminated against.

Bullshit.

[-misanthroptimist]

6. Amazing logic:

"If you don't allow me to discriminate against those that are different from me, then I am being oppressed!"

The sad thing is that probably six SC inJustices agree with him.

[sinkingfeeling]

7. But having to look at the Ten Commandments posted in a classroom

all day, isn't?

[unblock]

8. As a Jew, I'm being discriminated against every time I pass a McDonald's! They're not kosher!

This idea right-wingers have that their freedom of religion includes silencing others' freedoms of religion and speech is ludicrous, offensive, and not deserving of any respect.

Their freedom of religion entitles then to not engage in homosexual activity if their religion tells them that. It does not permit them to silence other people who disagree, other people who don't share that religious view.

[Botany]

9. The little Little bigot does not have to work there end of story.

And how long before Jeffery Little is found visiting “The Locker Room” men’s bar in West
Hollywood?”

[twodogsbarking]

10. Jeffrey Little, an evangelical Christian.

[marble falls]

11. In the same way his wearing a crucifix publicly infringes on my religious rights. His brain must be waterlogged ...

... surely bikinis must infringe on his religious rights.

[LuvLoogie]

12. Bigotry shrouded in piety is bigotry.

Hate wears a Jeezuz Beard.

[getagrip_already]

13. I wonder if he doesnt have to save gays who are drowning

Because it violates his religious beliefs.

[thucythucy]

15. My first thought as well.

I prefer my lifeguards not to be bigots, since what they do or don't do might be a matter of life or death.

[hunter]

14. The tiny little god he worships was threatened.

As a lifeguard he had to jump in and save him.