United Airlines fired a flight attendant allegedly over comments made about the LGBT movement.
Ruben Sanchez Jr, a flight attendant with a 28-year career at United, says that he was fired after a conversation with another flight attendant on a red-eye flight from Los Angeles to Cleveland in May 2023.
In an attempt to stay awake, Sanchez had a private conversation discussing his and the other flight attendant’s shared Catholic faith and the imminent start of LGBT “Pride Month” in June.
“I said, ‘You know, as Catholics, we’re not really supposed to be observing Pride,’” said Sanchez to the New York Post. “‘The church will never believe that men give birth, women have penises or that the church should bless same-sex marriages because marriage is a sacrament, and it’s not meant for two men or two women or three people or whatever.’ That’s all I said.”
Sanchez was apparently overheard by an unidentified individual who complained to United on social media.
Sanchez was later suspended without pay by United, and was told by the airline that ...
