Home Depot fires the Bible-reading Cashier wearing the "One Nation Under God" button

[bigbull29]

Apathy is the true enemy of a free democracy.

But not on LPSP: it's to get me sexually excited.:biggrin1:

 

[SpeedoGuy]

It's a bit discouraging to hear some posters considering decreasing their participation. I can't speak for everyone but I enjoy reading many of the regular posters here and would miss the banter they provide, whether they know it or not.

 

[Pendlum]

Good for Home Depot.

Buttons are gay anyways. :tongue:

 

[lakecreeker]

sure glad I never had that employee check me out at the cashier lanes of Homo Depot. I would not of shut up or paid until that pin was removed, or a MOD(manager on duty) rang me up. With discount coupons for my next visit to HD. Have pretty much stopped doing business with the HD's and Lowes in my area. There attitudes, general appearance of the locations and color schemes are insulting to the neighborhoods. Trade at a few others that don't allow the carts in the parking lots, and colors blend into the area. Plus the prices are about the same or better, and the delivery of items mileage is farther out. Plus that don't support NASCAR another Redneck Nation thing. As saying goes the 4 door pickup truck is known as Redneck Limo

 

[FuzzyKen]

My other half IS an employee of Home Depot, and has been an Employee of this Corporation for many years. Home Depot has a dress code, certain types of clothing are not allowed. It is and always has been company policy on this issue. Home Depot forbids anything with religious connotation, they also forbid anything with a Political endorsement favoring one political candidate over another. The reasoning behind this is that is if they allow one thing then they would have to allow everything. Religious freedom goes multiple directions. If they allow a button that specifically uses the word "God" in an endorsing fashion, what do they do when an employee shows up with a button that says in Farsi, "One Nation Under Allah!" The actions in this case were not only just, but the fact that they offered this young man an alternative speaks volumes about their efforts to save his job and mitigate the issue. Think of the following buttons in addition to the one I have already mentioned. "One Nation under Brigham Young" "One Nation under Scientology". The problem is that this could be endless. My personal views are quite different than those I would present in business. This is not the infringement of rights of one male kid in young adulthood exploring his "born again Christianity", this is a test case that the Religious Right will just love. Watch this show up on "The 700 Club". If it does not show up there, it will certainly show up in many other places where ultra right-wing extremists can take advantage of it. What is sad is that the religion is lost here, what it becomes is a ton of "self-promotion" for trial lawyers and televangelists who will pander to anything that they can distort to look like an abridgment of "Religious Freedom" when in fact what it is is a simple violation of Company Policy. The kid was fired, I would be surprised in the end even if it went all the way to the Supreme Court if anyone would see this other than what it is. In the meanwhile the kid has done a great deal for the religious publicity machine.

 

[Gl3nn]

Nationalism and religian... when will they ever learn...

It's a place of business. If he doesn't want to follow their rules, then too bad for him, but in a place of business there is no place for religion.