Office Depot Apologizes for Refusing to Print Christian Woman's Pro-Life Prayer Flyers, Calling It 'Persecution' Against Abortion, The CEO of Office Depot has apologized to a Christian woman afterwards an Illinois annex banned to book her pro-life flyers because the abundance claimed that press them would breach the company's policy.
In August, Roman-Catholic Maria Goldstein went to the Office Depot in Schaumburg, Illinois, and asked an agent to book her 500 copies of a flyer she planned to deliver that listed facts about Planned Parenthood's government funding, balance acquirement and abridgement of blight screenings. The flyer aswell included a "Prayer for the About-face of Planned Parenthood" and a hotlink to the Center for Medical Progress' contempo analytic Planned Parenthood videos.
The staff, however, told Goldstein they could not book the flyers because they accounted them be in absolute abuse of an Office Depot policy, and offered her the adeptness to use the store's self-serve archetype machines, which she refused.
Office Depot backer Karen Denning afterwards told the Chicago Tribune that the aggregation activity prohibits the artful any actual that "advocates any anatomy of ancestral or religious bigotry or the animality of assertive groups of people." Denning added explained that Goldstein's flyer's "contained actual that advocates the animality of humans who abutment aborticide rights."Goldstein maintained that her flyer artlessly alleged on believers to adjure for pro-choice minds to be afflicted and for them to deathwatch up and see the "evil" abaft Planned Parenthood and abortion.
The flyer was to be broadcast during a anniversary of abnegation and adoration for "conversion."
"Bring an end to the killing of accouchement in the womb, and accompany an end to the auction of their physique parts," the flyer states. "Bring about-face to all who do this, and broad-mindedness to all who apostle it."
The Chicago-based nonprofit acknowledged group, The Thomas Moore Society, took up Goldstein's cause. TMS apostle Thomas Olp wrote a appeal letter to Office Depot CEO Roland Smith endure Thursday advertence that the aggregation had "unlawfully discriminated adjoin Goldstein because of her adoration and religious announcement aural the acceptation of the Cook County Human Rights Ordinance."
Olp accustomed a acknowledgment the next day from Office Depot Assistant General Counsel Robert Amicone, who said that Office Depot's abnegation of Goldstein's flyers was "appropriate" accustomed the accent included in the flyer.
"To be clear, Office Depot's position is that above-quoted accent avalanche aural the analogue of "graphic material" and/or "hate material," authoritative the abnegation to book the flyer appropriate," Amicone's stated. "Office Depot's accommodation was not based in any allotment of the actuality that the bulletin actuality is couched in agreement of Goldstein's religious beliefs."
Hours afterwards Amicone beatific his letter to Olp, Office Depot afflicted its position and issued an acknowledgment to Goldstein in a account from Smith.
"Upon a added abundant review, we accept bent that the agreeable of Ms. Goldstein's flyer is not a bright abuse of the company's policy," the account reads. "We aboveboard apologize to Goldstein for her acquaintance and our antecedent acknowledgment was not at all accompanying to her religious beliefs. We allure her to acknowledgment to Office Depot if she still wishes to book the flier[sic]."
The acknowledgment aswell states that the aggregation will abide to angle by its activity to abatement press abstracts that apostle for the animality of any group.
Olp responded to the acknowledgment by advertence that Goldstein is beholden for the acknowledgment and added that her case should serve as a "reminder that religious alternative is more beneath advance today, but it is a axiological American appropriate that every one of us should amount and defend."
Mollie Hemingway, chief editor at The Federalist, was not assertive by Smith's apology.
"The company's affirmation that the adoration is no best advised a 'clear' abuse of the company's activity makes it assume like it arguably could be a abuse of the company's policy," Hemmingway wrote.
"When Goldstein complained to accumulated college ups, the aggregation stood by the refusal. Thomas Added Society let Office Depot apperceive it would be advancing activity with the Cook County Human Rights Commission and the Illinois Department of Human Rights. So this acknowledgment from Office Depot is all about accoutrement its abaft on the religious bigotry claim."
In August, Roman-Catholic Maria Goldstein went to the Office Depot in Schaumburg, Illinois, and asked an agent to book her 500 copies of a flyer she planned to deliver that listed facts about Planned Parenthood's government funding, balance acquirement and abridgement of blight screenings. The flyer aswell included a "Prayer for the About-face of Planned Parenthood" and a hotlink to the Center for Medical Progress' contempo analytic Planned Parenthood videos.
The staff, however, told Goldstein they could not book the flyers because they accounted them be in absolute abuse of an Office Depot policy, and offered her the adeptness to use the store's self-serve archetype machines, which she refused.
Office Depot backer Karen Denning afterwards told the Chicago Tribune that the aggregation activity prohibits the artful any actual that "advocates any anatomy of ancestral or religious bigotry or the animality of assertive groups of people." Denning added explained that Goldstein's flyer's "contained actual that advocates the animality of humans who abutment aborticide rights."Goldstein maintained that her flyer artlessly alleged on believers to adjure for pro-choice minds to be afflicted and for them to deathwatch up and see the "evil" abaft Planned Parenthood and abortion.
The flyer was to be broadcast during a anniversary of abnegation and adoration for "conversion."
"Bring an end to the killing of accouchement in the womb, and accompany an end to the auction of their physique parts," the flyer states. "Bring about-face to all who do this, and broad-mindedness to all who apostle it."
The Chicago-based nonprofit acknowledged group, The Thomas Moore Society, took up Goldstein's cause. TMS apostle Thomas Olp wrote a appeal letter to Office Depot CEO Roland Smith endure Thursday advertence that the aggregation had "unlawfully discriminated adjoin Goldstein because of her adoration and religious announcement aural the acceptation of the Cook County Human Rights Ordinance."
Olp accustomed a acknowledgment the next day from Office Depot Assistant General Counsel Robert Amicone, who said that Office Depot's abnegation of Goldstein's flyers was "appropriate" accustomed the accent included in the flyer.
"To be clear, Office Depot's position is that above-quoted accent avalanche aural the analogue of "graphic material" and/or "hate material," authoritative the abnegation to book the flyer appropriate," Amicone's stated. "Office Depot's accommodation was not based in any allotment of the actuality that the bulletin actuality is couched in agreement of Goldstein's religious beliefs."
Hours afterwards Amicone beatific his letter to Olp, Office Depot afflicted its position and issued an acknowledgment to Goldstein in a account from Smith.
"Upon a added abundant review, we accept bent that the agreeable of Ms. Goldstein's flyer is not a bright abuse of the company's policy," the account reads. "We aboveboard apologize to Goldstein for her acquaintance and our antecedent acknowledgment was not at all accompanying to her religious beliefs. We allure her to acknowledgment to Office Depot if she still wishes to book the flier[sic]."
The acknowledgment aswell states that the aggregation will abide to angle by its activity to abatement press abstracts that apostle for the animality of any group.
Olp responded to the acknowledgment by advertence that Goldstein is beholden for the acknowledgment and added that her case should serve as a "reminder that religious alternative is more beneath advance today, but it is a axiological American appropriate that every one of us should amount and defend."
Mollie Hemingway, chief editor at The Federalist, was not assertive by Smith's apology.
"The company's affirmation that the adoration is no best advised a 'clear' abuse of the company's activity makes it assume like it arguably could be a abuse of the company's policy," Hemmingway wrote.
"When Goldstein complained to accumulated college ups, the aggregation stood by the refusal. Thomas Added Society let Office Depot apperceive it would be advancing activity with the Cook County Human Rights Commission and the Illinois Department of Human Rights. So this acknowledgment from Office Depot is all about accoutrement its abaft on the religious bigotry claim."
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