Fired employee begs Trump for help: 'Asked to choose livelihood or God!'

A Wisconsin man is begging President Donald Trump to intercede on his behalf as he files a complaint against a former employer who fired him for discriminatory behavior against LGBTQ people, Fox News reported on Friday.

Spencer Wimmer, who was terminated by the generator company Generac after what he calls five years of exemplary service, is represented by the right-wing advocacy group Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty.

"While the Trump administration has moved to roll back DEI and gender ideology workplace requirements, Wimmer, a devout Christian, argues that private citizens are still experiencing workplace discrimination tied to such policies," said the report. His complaint, filed to Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, comes as "he said he hopes President Donald Trump will do something about it."

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Per the complaint, Wimmer told Human Resources that his religion did not allow him to use the correct pronouns for transgender colleagues. "Generac HR representatives told him that his request to refrain from using transgender pronouns on religious grounds 'did not make any sense.' Wimmer was issued a written disciplinary action note that stated 'refusal to refer to an employee/subordinate by their preferred name/pronouns is in violation of the company’s Code of Business Conduct and No Harassment Policy,'" said the report. "After an entire month in which he said he felt both targeted and bullied for his religious beliefs, Wimmer was fired from his supervisor role at Generac Power Systems on April 2. According to WILL, he was not allowed to collect his personal belongings and was escorted out of the building."

The institute further argues there were no actual harassment complaints against Wimmer, and that his own rights under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.

"I was asked to choose between my livelihood and my love for God and my beliefs," said Wimmer.

In recent years, right-wing activists have sought to use religious discrimination law and freedom of speech as a basis for undermining other forms of discrimination law. In the recent Supreme Court 303 Creative decision, a website designer won the right to decline projects for same-sex weddings as a matter of freedom of creative expression, even as it transpired the whole case was built on a lie and she had never even been asked to do such a project.