Lawsuit: Former Bain Execs Fired Employees for Not Being Mormon

[Hissyspit]

Source: Courthouse News Service / Raw Story

Lawsuit: Former Bain execs fired employees for not being Mormon

By David Edwards
Wednesday, April 18, 2012 14:51 EDT

Former executives from Bain Capital, a company founded by presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, have been accused of firing six out of seven members of a management team for not belonging to the Mormon church.

David McCurdy and four other co-plaintiffs are suing Sorenson Capital Partners (SCP), Care Holding Co., Care Senior Living, and SCP Care Acquisition because they say the private equity firm fired them from their jobs at Care Senior Living because they were not members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), according to Courthouse News Service.

“Despite the promise of 5-years employment, in mid-November 2011, after only 7 months Plaintiffs were told that their employment would be terminated effective February 2012,” the lawsuit (PDF), which was filed in federal court in Oregon, states.

“During their tenure with Defendants, Plaintiffs learned that SCP strongly favored hiring, employing, and doing business with other members of the LDS Church,” the suit continues. “SCP partners, in particular Curtis Toone and Mike Scott, made comments about religion and questioned the beliefs of Plaintiffs and other employees.”


Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/04/18/lawsuit-former-bain-execs-fired-employees-for-not-being-mormon/

[msongs]

1. exclusionary cults fire non-believers? gee whatta surprise lol nt

[patrice]

7. Really. - AND - There are ALL kinds of "exclusionary cults" created by At Will employment. nt

[Politicalboi]

2. I hope this is true

I hope Rmoney gets lots of questions about his cult background. I believe all religions are cults, so I'm not just picking on Mormons. It's fun to watch these religious nuts compare fairy tales and how the others fairy tales aren't true while theirs are. LOL! This is outrageous to say the least.

[murray hill farm]

3. So true!

and well said!!!!!

[SnakeEyes]

21. Yep, they are all cults

Even Catholicism, Baptist, Protestant, Anglican, Jewish, Orthodox, Paganism, Islam, you name it.

[sarcasmo]

31. +1

[get the red out]

4. That will sell really well

with the Southern Baptists

They didn't turn their Churches into nothing but Republican PACs for THIS.

[freshwest]

5. THIS is WHY we need a SECULARIST government to regulate these fools!

[patrice]

6. Dominionists vs. Mormons. Republicans are engaged in a war between church cartels.

[Wind Dancer]

25. +1000

[ChairmanAgnostic]

8. Let's see.

RMoney: I love firing people.
Bain: If you aren't Mormon and wear magic underwear, or believe in three heavens, too bad.

[patrice]

9. VERY interesting. An economic move into ELDER CARE foundered on the rocks of RELIGION.

very, VERY interesting indeed.

[pasto76]

10. my company owners are Mormon

and they will back each other up, regardless of circumstance or integrity to no end. Mormon dude doesnt like you? here's your money, thanks for working here and dont call us for work every again.


According to the Ancient Alien theory, their whole church is based on an ET encounter!

[Phlem]

11. yep, same here.

The slimiest people in business and other things.

"According to the Ancient Alien theory, their whole church is based on an ET encounter!" They found him in a hat cause that's what Joseph smith used for his revelations. The all seeing hat, I forget if there was a stone it.

It's a cult.

-p

[JoePhilly]

14. The company my wife works for has a heavy Mormon influence.

She sees the same behavior.

The Mormon peers she has are paid more and promoted more quickly. The up-line Mormons love her work, because she saves their asses on a regular basis ... but she's determined that they will never allow her to enter their ranks. They will instead, promote her less effective Mormon peers

Her sense is that they promote Mormons to leadership roles, but then hire lots of non-Mormon experts who do the actual work. The Mormon leaders take credit for the work of their subordinates, when things go well, but blame the subordinates with things don't go well.

Either way, the Mormons move UP and the non-Mormons stay at the same level or get fired with things get tight.

[Arugula Latte]

16. Well, it's not like mainstream Christianity has a non-insane backstory, either.

Guy born of a virgin raped by a deity is killed, comes back to life, and is gonna come back again aaaanyday ... yeah.

[kestrel91316]

12. Gosh I'm SO SHOCKED.

[drm604]

13. This will not play well with the Republicans' conservative Christian base.

They really are self destructing, aren't they?

[SDjack]

15. All that has to happen: The Mormons and Baptist come with arm's length, and both sides will go for

their opponents throats.

[AsahinaKimi]

17. I was once removed

from a tennis court in Preston, Idaho for not being Mormon. It was on a high school property. I had thought anyone could use it.. I was obviously wrong. (A few months later I moved to Arizona.. thought that might be an interesting experience.)

[Kingofalldems]

18. Keep this around for the campaign.

Blockbuster story.

[marble falls]

19. And I was fired from two jobs for being LDS.

[Tom Ripley]

23. Barista and childcare worker?

[marble falls]

24. Draftsman at a flow metering design company and a production engineer ....

at an Italian specialty food producer. Both companies in Arizona.

And I'll vote again for the President. Bain Capital is a disgusting snap shot of greed in action..

[Tom Ripley]

26. My apologies, that was a cheap shot intended at LDS, not you

I am sorry

[marble falls]

27. No problems. It was funny without being offensive.

[vkkv]

20. Good thing for Republicans that they have Rick Santorum and Newt waiting in the wings

Good thing for Republicans that they have Rick Santorum and Newt waiting in the wings in case Mitt has to step down amid all of his scandals before the GOP pigsty -I mean convention.

[Smilo]

22. At one place we had a Mormon HR person -

she kept the book of mormon on her desk and during lunch times liked to "preach" to us heathens.

[obamanut2012]

28. This is SOP for many LDS members, especially in Utah

I've known people who have moved because it's so blatant. Roseanne Barr has talked about this, too.

[FarCenter]

29. So why didn't they convert?

"Paris vaut bien une messe" ("Paris is well worth a Mass&quot .

Henry IV of France, who converted to Catholicism in order to ascend the throne of France.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Wars_of_Religion#Towards_peace_.281593.E2.80.9398.29

[sarcasmo]

30. Fairytales, screwing more and more people every day.