{"id":193240,"date":"2019-08-15T06:03:42","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T06:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=193240"},"modified":"2019-08-17T05:45:51","modified_gmt":"2019-08-17T05:45:51","slug":"bus-driver-suspended-for-refusing-to-drive-bus-with-rainbow-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=193240","title":{"rendered":"Bus driver suspended for refusing to drive bus with rainbow number"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Damien Gayle \u2013 The Guardian Aug 14, 2019<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Gay-Bus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-193241\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Gay-Bus-1024x614.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Gay-Bus-1024x614.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Gay-Bus-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Gay-Bus-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Gay-Bus.jpg 1240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">A bus driver in <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk\/norwich\" data-link-name=\"auto-linked-tag\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Norwich<\/a> has been suspended after refusing to drive a bus decorated with a rainbow-coloured number in celebration of gay pride.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Passengers were left waiting after the driver allegedly told them they had to wait for him to swap buses because \u201cthis bus promotes homosexuality and I refuse to drive it\u201d, according to a passenger.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The driver has been suspended from work while he is investigated, the company involved said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">According to Rebecca Sears, 19, a college student, the incident occurred at Norwich bus station last week. The city had recently celebrated a pride event and Konectbus buses in the city were displaying their numbers in rainbow colours.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Alongside a picture of the driver, she wrote on Twitter: \u201cToday I was waiting for the 501 bus to Thickthorn and we were told by the driver we had to wait for him to swap buses as \u2018this bus promotes homosexuality and I refuse to drive it\u2019 due to the multicoloured \u2018501\u2019 sign.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">She wrote: \u201cNorwich doesn\u2019t appreciate homophobia,\u201d adding: \u201cI\u2019m aware everyone is entitled to their own views. However, if you can\u2019t do your job properly because of your bigotry, maybe you need [to] rethink your choices.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Sears said she complained to staff at the terminus, who told her they were aware of what had happened.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Go East Anglia, Konectbus\u2019s parent company, said on Wednesday: \u201cGo East Anglia prides itself on values that support diversity and inclusion and has been a champion of Norwich <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/pride\" data-link-name=\"auto-linked-tag\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Pride<\/a> since 2017. We particularly want all customers of whatever background or sexual orientation to feel comfortable on our services.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cAs a company we do not condone any behaviour from our drivers that does not support this view. The driver involved in this incident has been suspended and a full investigation is under way.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2019\/aug\/14\/bus-driver-suspended-for-refusing-to-drive-bus-with-rainbow-number\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Promotion of &#8220;gay lifestyle&#8221; now compulsory on East Anglia buses. Those who won\u2019t comply could end up losing their jobs.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Miscellaneous"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=193240"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193243,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193240\/revisions\/193243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}