Now that’s my kind of religion!
Posted by Bret WeaverJune 1st, 2007
I’ve always liked the ladies that refuse to wear pants… ZING!!!
(Thanks, I’ll be here all week)
Pentecostalist refuses to wear pants
NEW YORK, May 31 A bus driver of the Pentecostal faith said she may sue the New York Transit Association for firing her just because she refused to wear pants.
Tahita Jenkins, 33, explained to her bosses that the standard issue bus driver’s uniform, which required the wearing of pants, was against her religion, The New York Post reported Thursday.
She even went as far as to bring in a note from her pastor at the Holy Ghost Headquarters Prayer Band Mission of New Beginning Deliverance Church in Far Rockaway, in the New York borough of Queens, requesting that she be allowed to wear a skirt at work.
But even that didn’t work and officials in the transit department insisted that she must either wear pants or culottes or lose her job.
Transit officials fired Jenkins on Tuesday and she is now considering filing a lawsuit.
A similar suit involving Brinks Inc., the armored security service, resulted in a Pentecostal woman being awarded $30,000 and offered her job back, although she had to wear culottes as a compromise.
