A Christian barista is suing Starbucks claiming the chain fired her because she refused to wear a company Pride t-shirt. Betsy Fresse from New Jersey, USA says she refused to wear the t-shirt because it would be ‘a contradiction to her religious beliefs’.
However, Starbucks says Fresse’s claims are ‘without merit’. The lawsuit filings say Fresse believes ‘that God created man and woman, that marriage is defined in the Bible as between one man and one woman only, and that any sexual activity which takes place outside of this context is contrary to her understanding of Biblical teaching.’ And the filings claim that if she had to wear a Pride shirt at work it ‘would be tantamount to forced speech and inaccurately show her advocacy of a