Madlin Sims’ Facebook post talking about her decision (Picture: Caters)

A woman has received death threats after she fired one of her employees for what she called ‘homophobic hate speech’.

Madlin Sims posted a Facebook status in which she claimed to have recently fired an employee who made it ‘public knowledge’ that they intended to vote No on the upcoming Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey, which will gauge how much support there is for legalising same-sex marriage in the country.

The results of the vote will be non-binding and will not require the Australian government to take action.

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Sims said the employee’s Facebook post was ‘advertising’ her ‘homophobia’, and therefore she decided to fire her.




However ABC tracked down the employee – an 18-year-old Christian girl called Madeline – and she claims she only added a temporary filter to her Facebook profile picture saying ‘it’s OK to vote no’ on the postal survey.

Madeline claims that apart from this action she has never spoken of her beliefs on same sex marriage.

Madlin also shared the text she sent to Madeline firing her (Picture: Caters)

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Madlin Sims has received death threats and even threats against her children since her post has gone viral.

In another Facebook post Madlin said she is glad her former employee is being interviewed by the press as ‘free speech is important as long as ur not being hateful or hurtful (sic)’.

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She added: ‘I risked my business and my integrity doing this but I don’t really give a shit because I can wake up tomorrow and marry any bloke I want.’

Many people replied to Madlin’s Facebook posts, both in support of and criticising her actions.

Ben Yosef wrote: ‘This is… absurd. How can you honestly believe you are entitled to fire someone based on how they vote? I’m a Yes voter, but believe people like you are setting a very dangerous precedence – we cannot silence opinions.

Whereas Jazmeen Avesta wrote: ‘

The postal survey is to gauge Australian’s support for same sex marriage (Picture: Getty)