Julie Anne Stamps used to work as a successful customer care executive for Ramsey Solutions as she started reconciling herself to her sexuality. Back then, Stamps was married, but she stated that she had been struggling with her sexual identity since her middle school days. In the past, she was prepared to live more openly and honestly.
Stamps filed a lawsuit earlier this year against financial guru Dave Ramsey’s company situated in Franklin. In the lawsuit, she claims that this company would not let her keep her employment position if she lived that kind of life.
Ramsey has been charged with not just firing a woman employee for becoming pregnant before her marriage but also running his company similar to a cult. Ramsey has attracted public attention in the coronavirus pandemic period for openly disregarding public health regulations.
Ramsey Solutions stated that Stamps left the company willingly and on friendly terms, as she wished to pursue a different career opportunity. It also stated that Stamps changed her story to make false accusations of discrimination against her former friend and supervisor. The sudden change from Stamps has made Ramsey Solutions unhappy, but the company expects to defend itself and the supervisor of Stamps.
The customer care professional and her spouse chose to have a legal dissolution of their marriage last May. Soon after that decision, Stamps approached a trusted person who supervised her and revealed her sexual identity to that person. In her legal complaint, Stamps claimed that the supervisor told her to see a Christian counseling expert who saved someone else who made an expression of homosexual sexuality. In June 2020, Stamps states, she told her family about her lesbian status before asking her professional supervisor about doing the same to her co-workers.
Stamps said that she feared that Ramsey Solutions would prohibit her sexuality, as the company imposed its Judeo-Christian principles and Christianity version on its workers.
When she asked the person who supervised her what if she revealed her sexuality at work, the supervisor told her that she should decide whether or not to stay employed at Ramsey’s company. Then, Stamps was informed that she could not make a social media post regarding her sexuality or tell anybody at work about it if she wished to keep working there.
As per the complaint, Stamps informed her supervisor that she would disclose her sexual identity instead of keeping things private. In response, her supervisor told her to give a resignation letter to the employer and that it would schedule an exit interview.
Meanwhile, the US Supreme Court released its decision in the civil rights case that concerned Gerald Bostock and Clayton County. As per the Supreme Court, the US Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects workers from discrimination on the basis of their gender identity or sexual orientation. In the legal complaint, Stamps said that the disclosure of the Supreme Court decision in June 2020 expedited her act of leaving the company.
After the disclosure thereof, Stamps said that Ramsey Solutions set June 17, 2020, as her last working day there and that it was terminating her. According to the complaint, Ramsey Solutions escorted Swamps away from its property after the interview with her.
The financial expert has expressed clear views on employment matters similar to the one at issue. During a recent Q&A session, he responded to a Twitter question regarding whether companies could terminate somebody for an affair beyond marriage. In response, he stated that he was entitled to tell his employees anything he wished to, just because they worked for him.
