Political correctness did in a Cisco Systems leadership instructor after it was discovered he wrote a book blasting the tyranny of political correctness.<\/p>\n
“The American-based multinational corporation Cisco Systems, a company that touts its ‘inclusion and diversity’ strategies, has come under attack for the recent firing of a top employee, reputedly over his off-the-job work defending marriage,” writes Rebecca Millette for LifeSiteNews, an\u00a0internet news site that\u00a0advocates pro-life issues.<\/p>\n
“Earlier this year, the company fired Dr. Frank Turek, Cisco\u2019s leadership and teambuilding program co-ordinator, after receiving complaints from a manager with the company regarding Dr. Turek\u2019s authorship of a book titled Correct, not Politically Correct: How Same-Sex Marriage Hurts Everyone.<\/em><\/p>\n According to Cisco management, Dr. Turek\u2019s work with the company had received nothing but praise. In fact, in the manager\u2019s complaint to the company he commended the leadership program lead by Dr. Turek as \u201cexcellent,\u201d but took issue with his political and religious views.<\/p>\n Dr. Turek says he was fired \u201cby Cisco for my conservative beliefs about sex and marriage even though my beliefs were never expressed on the job.\u201d<\/p>\n Dr. Turek was hired to conduct a leadership and teambuilding program for about fifty managers.\u00a0He received high marks and in 2010 he was commissioned to design a similar program for about 200 managers globally.<\/p>\n Following one of these sessions, the complaining manager called a human resources professional at Cisco after apparently searching Turek\u2019s name online. According to Adams, even though neither the manager nor the HR professional had read Turek\u2019s book or heard him speak on matters of same-sex marriage or homosexuality, Turek was fired within hours, and the HR professional commended the manager for \u201couting\u201d Turek,\u00a0reported LifeSiteNews.<\/p>\n\n