A CHICAGO dentist has agreed to pay $462,500 to settle federal allegations that he violated US discrimination laws by sexually harassing workers and by forcing employees who wanted to keep their jobs to submit to Scientology indoctrination.
James L Orrington
The Chicago office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission had filed a civil lawsuit against James L Orrington in September 2007, alleging he had discriminated against 18 employees by subjecting them to sexual propositions, comments and improper touching. The suit also alleged that Orrington violated federal law by requiring workers:
To engage in Scientology religious practices and learn about Scientology as conditions of their employment.
According to this report, the suit, filed in Chicago federal court, also alleged that Orrington violated civil-rights law by firing or taking other retaliatory actions against some employees who had complained about his behaviour.
A consent decree filed with the US District court Tuesday calls for Orrington to pay $462,500 to the workers involved and enjoins him from further sexual or religious workplace discrimination.
A consent decree resolves a lawsuit, but doesn’t include an admission of guilt by the defendant.
Said EEOC regional attorney John Hendrickson:
The misconduct here was shameful – combining sex, forced Scientology and putting people’s jobs on the line – and it was especially shameful because the person doing it was a medical professional who occupied a position of trust in his community .
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
January 15th, 2009 at 6:59 pm
i think he is getting off a little easy.
January 15th, 2009 at 8:17 pm
Scientology is a false cult. Adherents of this cult are not saved.
January 15th, 2009 at 9:08 pm
Why is he being allowed to basically buy his way out of any real consequences??
January 15th, 2009 at 10:10 pm
Ok, now i’m convinced that Bob is satirical troll. Well done Bob.
January 15th, 2009 at 10:28 pm
Bob. For fucks sake man GET A LIFE!.
Twat.
January 16th, 2009 at 12:44 am
I expect the Scientology fruit loop church will contest it and probably win–after all the IRS caved into them –
January 16th, 2009 at 12:47 am
Bob no one can save with Scientology –you seen the prices they charge for there courses-B-T-W Bob why not crawl back under the mega Church you came from
January 16th, 2009 at 8:24 am
Ancient American Saying: “No rich man ever goes to gaol”
January 16th, 2009 at 8:50 am
I think Bob provides a useful service. We can have a bit of good-nature heterosexual rough-and-tumble with the young roister-doister. Or, put another way, it’s like calibrating your BS detector. It has to be done with BS.
But, to be serious Bob, this mad Scientologist believes in his religion as sincerely as you believe in yours. And Scientology is just starting out. When Christianity began as a crazy fringe cult in Roman times I daresay people were pressured into joining by their bosses (or ‘owners’, to use the more accurate term).
January 16th, 2009 at 9:11 am
Valdemar: people become Christians because God opens their eyes and draws them to place faith in Jesus as Saviour and Lord. If someone says they are Christians because they have been “pressured” then it is likely that they are not true believers in their hearts but it is all an “outward form”. In my work as an evangelist I simply outline the truth of the Christian gospel and God does the work of converting the elect.
January 16th, 2009 at 9:33 am
Bob,
Not wishing to miss a trend – you’re a twat.
Also a cowardly one who cannot rise to a simple challenge.
January 16th, 2009 at 10:13 pm
LOL
I can tell you some things about Orrington Dental. ALL the pornography on the PCs, ALL the obscene material on James Orrington’s office PC, and ALL in the midst of his wife who sits right across from him.
What they don’t tell you either is about his other family he’s supporting in Peru. He has his wife of 20-something years here, kids in their 30s… and then this hot little Peruvian chick whom he has impregnated it appears two or three times (based on family photos I was able to find).
This guy has some issues; one VERY jacked-up scenario overall.
If anyone’s interested, I have access to his office surveillance system.