Harmony Daws was recently appointed president of the Oregon Right to Life board of directors. She works at a cleaning business in Portland, and informed her boss of her new position. Her boss did not take it well:
After that conversation, her boss came to her again and told her to never mention her pro-life work. Harmony agreed, mentioning that it had only come up in their conversation as friends, having worked together for four years. Her employer was cold and distant for the following week and a half. Then last Friday, she fired Harmony for "discrimination" and for Harmony's beliefs that she saw online, apparently including her blog and the ORTL website. Employees who worked under Harmony varied in beliefs and lifestyles, including a Satanist, a Wiccan, a lesbian, and atheists too. Upon hearing of her firing, several of them told her they had never felt discriminated against in any way. They said she "loved everyone." It was because of Harmony's work running the daily operations of the company that her boss went from struggling to make payroll for three employees to a team of 14 employees with projected 2016 sales of over $500,000.
Indeed, in progressive Portlandia, people have also been driven out of business for being publicly Christian. At the same time, Portland is also where the last mayor survived a recall attempt and was publicly defended by many of the city's most prominent denizens after he admitted he slept with a teenage boy and lied about it.
It sure seems as if Oregon has a pretty perverse notion of tolerance.