28 years as a United Airlines employee; now his Catholic values got him fired.
When Kamala Harris told a couple of pro-life activists at a recent rally that they were at the wrong event, she was signaling to the approving crowd that she shared their open contempt for Christians and Christian values. Leftists hate Jews and Christians primarily because Judeo-Christian morality is the greatest obstacle to the communist Left’s cult of sexual libertinism and self-deification.
Another notable recent example came when the editor of the far-Left Mother Jones magazine complained that a flight attendant had shared a “Christian nationalist dog-whistle” by merely wishing the passengers a “blessed” night at the end of a flight. The editor even tried to pressure Alaska Airlines publicly to take action against that horrible bigot to ensure that no passenger would ever again be oppressed by the “dominant culture enforcing its norms.”
This is the sort of soft totalitarianism routinely directed at Christians by our cultural elites, who control the dominant culture and who have no reservations about enforcing their norms, such as kink-promoting “Pride” parades, transgender flags adorning classrooms, and pushing pornography in school libraries.
Another example, also involving an airline (a common flashpoint in the culture wars): a long-time United Airlines employee, Ruben D. Sanchez, Jr., was terminated recently after a self-identified transgender customer alleged that Sanchez, a devout Catholic, made bigoted remarks to a fellow flight attendant.
Full disclosure: Ruben has been a friend of mine for many years, and thus I can personally vouch for him as one of the most good-hearted, unbigoted people I know. He has friends from all political persuasions. He is a consummate professional in his long-standing career. He is gay. But none of who Ruben really is means anything to the Cancel Culture crowd; they simply wield their ruthless politics of personal destruction against anyone who doesn’t conform to Leftist orthodoxy, ruin that victim’s life, and move on to the next target. Ruben is a conservative patriot, and that is sufficient to mark him as human “garbage,” as deposed ex-President Joe Biden recently put it, by the new Red Guard of the Democrat Party.
I approached Ruben with some questions about his experience.
Mark Tapson: Ruben, can you give us a little background about who you are, what you do, and about your military service?
Ruben Sanchez: I graduated from the University of Southern California in 1994 and began working at United Airlines in January 1996. I traveled all over the world and felt like life couldn’t get any better. Then, [the terror attacks of] Sept. 11th happened, and it occurred to me that I had a very nice life because I lived in America, and now my country needed healthy young men to fight for her. I joined the Air Force Reserves and shipped off to Basic Training at the age of 33. Since 2005, I’ve done both military reserve duty and flown for United. I’m now in my 19th year with the military, and while I will qualify to retire in April 2025, I am being deployed at that time and I want to go, so I plan to stay in a little longer.
MT: So you worked for United for 28 years without incident. Presumably they had no issues with you or your performance, but then came an incident that turned everything upside down. Can you describe what happened?
RS: Yes, 28 years at United Airlines, and at the time of the incident I had no performance issues. On 30 May, 2023, a transgender passenger who describes himself on X [formerly Twitter] as a “deepthroat pro” and who had tweeted about the joys of anal double penetration, sent a tweet to United that he overheard me say “I hate all black people” and “I’m proudly anti-trans.”
This happened on a “redeye” flight from Los Angeles to Cleveland, so most everybody was asleep. I was having a conversation with my co-worker, the lead flight attendant. He told me that his father had just converted to Catholicism. As I am also Catholic, I told him how happy I was. As it was a day before PRIDE month started, I did say that PRIDE is not something Catholics should be affirming, celebrating, or participating in. Further, I said that the Church would never support the idea that men can give birth and women can have penises. When we deviate from the idea of God over Man, Man over Woman, Woman over Child, we shouldn’t be surprised when chaos results.
About the transgender thing, I brought up the book When Harry Became Sally by a Catholic scholar, Dr. Ryan T. Anderson. I said we need to treat transgenders with compassion and love as Jesus has taught us. Nothing hateful or disrespectful ever came out of either of our mouths.
MT: An investigator looked into this complaint by combing your social media posts going back nearly 15 years, looking for evidence of bigotry on your part. These are posts that had nothing to do with United or its customers or employees, correct? But the investigator decided your values didn’t align with the company you’d served for nearly three decades. --->READ MORE HERE
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