Ikea sued by Polish government for sacking homophobe who told colleagues gay people deserved death

Ikea is being sued by the government in Poland for allegedly infringing upon an employee’s religious rights after he was fired for making horrific anti-LGBT+ comments.

The former Ikea employee, identified as Tomasz K, was fired last year when he refused to take down a homophobic comment he posted on the company’s internal site.

Now, Poland’s anti-LGBT+ government is suing the furniture company, claiming it infringed upon the employee’s religious rights, according to Bloomberg.

Prosecutors in the country – which recently re-elected staunchly homophobic president Andrzej Duda – have charged the IKEA human resources director with restricting the employee’s religious rights.