In the Garden... State Parkway

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Perhaps because “we’ve got to get ourselves back to the garden,” a toll collector for the New Jersey Garden State Parkway had been in the habit of saying “God bless” to those who passed by her booth.

Word got back to her supervisor, and Cynthia Fernandez was told to quit saying those words to the customers because motorists might find them offensive.

Todd Starnes of Fox News reports that “Ms. Fernandez said not one person complained.”  Fernandez furthermore pointed out to her supervisor that there was “not one line” in the employee handbook regarding “God bless” statements.

Fernandez has therefore “filed a lawsuit against the Garden State Parkway claiming her former boss violated her First Amendment rights.”  She also resigned from her toll-collector position and is “babysitting until she can find a new job.”

Resources

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/10/02/toll-worker-my-boss-told-me-to-stop-saying-god-bless/

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