A software engineer fired for putting \u201cAssigned By God\u201d as the preferred pronoun on his employee profile has filed a civil rights lawsuit against his company.<\/p>\n
Chard Scharf was fired by the software company Bitwarden, an online storage service for sensitive information. Scharf served as Vice President of Software Engineering at the Jacksonville, Florida, location.<\/p>\n
The lawsuit alleges that Bitwarden violated Scharf\u2019s Title VII rights against religious discrimination by allowing other employees to post preferred pronouns on their employee profiles, but prohibiting Scharf from using his preferred pronoun based on his religious beliefs.<\/p>\n
\u201cHad Chad set aside his religious beliefs and acquiesced to Bitwarden\u2019s promotion of gender ideology, he would not have been fired,\u201d Scharf\u2019s attorney Jennifer Vasquez told The Epoch Times, \u201cwhich means his religious beliefs were the cause of his termination.\u201d Vasquez is with the Florida law firm Campbell, Trohn, Tamayo & Aranda.<\/p>\n
Neither Bitwarden nor its attorney B. Tyler White of Jackson & Lewis, responded to multiple inquiries from The Epoch Times about Scharf\u2019s lawsuit. The company has not yet filed a response to the federal complaint.<\/p>\n
\u201cBitwarden violated Title VII when it placed Mr. Scharf into a disfavored class by promoting its gender ideology, when it failed to approve his reasonable request for accommodation, and when it terminated his employment,\u201d the lawsuit states.<\/p>\n
According to the lawsuit, Scharf was repeatedly pressured to add his preferred pronouns to his Slack employee profile under his company\u2019s \u201cinclusivity initiative.\u201d Slack is a platform utilized for intra company communication.<\/p>\n
When Scharf added \u201cAssigned By God\u201d to his employee profile page, he was told to remove it, his complaint alleges.<\/p>\n
Scharf, a Catholic, told his company he would not participate in its request to choose preferred pronouns because it was part of a gender ideology that went against his religious beliefs.<\/p>\n
He told Bitwarden executives that it was his belief that there are only two sexes and \u201cthat gender cannot be changed, chosen, or manipulated,\u201d and that it was the company discriminating against him for failing to accommodate his beliefs.<\/p>\n
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