NY Chef Awarded $1.6 Million After Restaurant Owner Promises Her ‘Hell’ For Being A Lesbian

[Purveyor]

By Tom Boggioni
Sunday, March 30, 2014 19:35 EDT

The owner of a chain of Mexican restaurants in New York has been ordered to pay a chef who is a lesbian $1.6 million after repeatedly saying that “gay people” were “going to go to hell” in staff meetings.

According to Courthouse News Service, a New York Appeals court ordered Edward Globokar, principal owner of Gloria’s Tribeca Inc. and Gloria’s Tribecamex, to pay Mirella Salemi $400,000 in compensatory damages and $1.2 million in punitive damages.

The defendants operated a chain of Mexican restaurants in New York called Mary Ann’s. The staff meetings described in the suit occurred between 2004 and 2007. It is unclear who owns Mary Ann’s today.

According to Salemi, who sued under the New York City Human Rights Law, Globokar compelled his staff to attend weekly prayer meetings that were essentially mandatory because with the restaurant staff believing they would lose their jobs if they failed to attend.

At the meetings, Globokar would repeatedly call homosexuality a sin, and tell his staff that “gay people” were “going to go to hell.”

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[Cha]

1. Damn girl.. way to follow through!

[SamKnause]

2. Sweet

[cui bono]

3. NY Chef becomes NY Restaurant Owner

is the next headline you'll see about her.

[Kablooie]

4. This could be the beginning of a new Supreme Court case.

if the court sides with Hobby Lobby.

If the owners of a corporation can be exempt from following the law in relation to employees because of professed religious beliefs, another step could be for owners to deride employees because they don't live up to the owner's personal religious beliefs.