http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/20/1413850/-Woman-claims-she-was-fired-from-KS-sec-of-state-office-for-not-attending-prayer-services?detail=email
Courtney Canfield worked as a business-filing specialist in the office of the Kansas secretary of state. In a lawsuit she filed in early August, she claims she was repeatedly pressured to attend prayer services in the office:
“These invitations were distributed during normal business hours and included a ‘prayer guide’ to be utilized at that week’s service. Despite the repeated invitations, Plaintiff never attended such a service,” the lawsuit states. “While Plaintiff was a Methodist, she did not regularly attend church services or otherwise practice any particular religious beliefs in any way.”
She claims Assistant Secretary of State Eric Rucker even visited her grandmother to complain about her not attending church regularly:
The suit alleges that the assistant secretary of state visited the home of Canfield’s grandmother, who worked for the Kansas Republican Party, in November 2013 and informed her of the plans to terminate Canfield’s employment.
“Mr. Rucker repeatedly and emphatically indicated a basis for her termination as the fact that ‘She just doesn’t go to church,’ ” the lawsuit alleges.
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach insisted there was nothing illegal about her termination:
Secretary of State Kris Kobach told The Wichita Eagle in an email that the lawsuit is baseless and that Canfield was fired for poor job performance.
“The suggestion that Mr. Rucker, or anyone else at the Office of the Secretary of State, monitored employees’ church attendance is ridiculous,” Kobach said in the email.
Courtney's grandmother, Margie Canfield, has worked with the Kansas Republican Party since 1999. The lawsuit claims Eric Rucker tried to get Margie to fire her granddaughter:
In Rucker's telephone message, he asked to speak with Margie Canfield and arrived at her Topeka home at 5:30 p.m. Nov. 15, 2013. He told Margie Canfield "she needed (to) terminate plaintiff despite the fact that she had no direct authority over her employment," the lawsuit claims.i notice there was no race or religions denomination named which it being Kansas and what they were trying to do makes me wonder is Ms. Canfield Black and is the religion stepping on another's right to worship where they choose evangelical just sayin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas
check religion demographics
