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Presbyterian Church of Wales manager "bullied" gay worker
"I was bullied consistently for no other reason than my sexuality"
A worker at the Presbyterian Church of Wales is claiming sexual harassment and discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation against his manager, who he claims would turn every conversation with him to sex. Stephen Price, 25, claims his manager Mair Jones would "say something about gay sex every day" and once called him a "stupid poof".
Price, a philosophy graduate, who works at the 250-year-old retreat near Brecan claims of Jones that "every conversation would somehow end up being a conversation about sex. This happened continuously and was part of her repertoire. Everything imaginable that I would say would be repeated back at me as a double entendre. She joked once that I could have her for sexual harassment and that she was the Queen of Innuendo as she would find a sexual twist to even the most innocent comment. Sex and sexuality seemed to be the only subjects Mair was interested in talking to me about... I was and still am shocked to have been referred to as a poof."
Jones denies Price's allegations but he insists that he was forced to resign when he heard he was being moved back from a new job in Cardiff to the retreat. "I was bullied consistently for no other reason than my sexuality," says Price.
