Chick-Fil-A Sued By Employee Who Was Fired So She Could Be ‘Stay Home’ Mom

-Submitted by David Drumm (Nal), Guest Blogger

Well, who could have seen this coming? Brenda Honeycutt was an employee at the Duluth, Georgia, Chick-Fil-A, when, according to the complaint,  her supervisor, Jeff Howard, fired her so she could be a “stay home” mother. Honeycutt was promoted to General Manager by the previous management and performed her duties in a satisfactory or above satisfactory manner, according to the complaint filed in the United States District Court, Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division.

Dan Cathy, president and CEO of Chick-fil-A, recently said he operates his organization “on biblical principles.”

Stay-at-home mothering is a biblical principle:

Titus 2:4-5  and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.

1 Timothy 5:14  Therefore, I want younger widows to get married, bear children, keep house, and give the enemy no occasion for reproach;

The complaint claims that during Honeycutt’s employment, Howard “routinely made comments to the Plaintiff suggesting that as a mother she should stay home with her children.” Howard’s pattern of behavior is an inevitable result of allowing your organization to be run “on biblical principles.”

The complaint also alleges a pattern of demoting high-level female employees and placing male employees in those positions. This may prove especially troubling to jurors if it goes that far. The prospect of a long parade of female witnesses testifying about demotions in favor of male colleagues, should persuade the defendants to settle this case.

Honeycutt is represented by K. Prabhaker Reddy of Suwanee, Georgia.

H/T: The New Civil Rights Movement.