Apparently, no one told a Tulsa, OK lighting store that religious discrimination in the United States is against the law.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed suit against Voss Lighting for overtly and covertly mandating that prospective workers be Christian.
According to the EEOC, job seeker Edward Wolfe applied in 2011 to be a supervisor at Voss Lighting in Tulsa, when 2 local managers began to question him about his religious activities and beliefs. Wolfe was required to name the churches he had attended over the past several years, to acknowledge if he was “saved” and if he would have a problem coming to work early to attend Bible study. Wolfe was also told that while most Voss employees were Southern Baptists, he would not be required to be so long as he was a “born-again” Christian.
EECO says that when Wolfe complained, the Voss manager expressed “overt agitation and disapproval” to Wolfe’s responses and he was ultimately denied employment just on the basis of his unspoken religious beliefs.
