Home Depot Employee Fired for Wearing "God.." Button

The Colonies of British America were probably the richest and freest part of the British Empire, but they started a World War because the King wanted to tax their tea. Whining is relative, Harriet Tubman would probably be just as disgusted by Oliver Brown or Rosa Parks as you are by this isolated incident with an insubordinate employee. And we still have one of the biggest, best-armed and best-funded militaries on the planet, "homo issue" or not. Maybe we can lay off the absinthe before posting late again.

 

Re-read what I said homie. I never said his button is infringing upon my right. I said he thinks his (non-existent) right to push his religion on others is being infringed upon.

This case is a symptom of a bigger problem. Ghettocheeze's response would be another symptom. There is a fundamental misunderstanding many Christians have when it comes to their rights and the history of this country.

 

Moron, you know the majority of our Founding Fathers were deists, along with some atheists?

also, Treaty of Tripoli...

article 11 states,

"Art. 11. As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion;"

 

Actually he has every right to push his religion on others.

That doesn't mean anyone has to listen (or be forced to employ him for that matter) - but he does have that right.

 

Here's the saddest part... I'm stunned about it...


It's a snippet from the stinkin' Pledge of Allegiance! Whataburger has it on a window in every one of their restaurants... maybe he can work there then.


He was fired for no reason. I doubt he was warned about it. A year? He went a year with it on? What changed? His Bible showed up? So?





Remember in '90 when everyone had a pin on like that, or similar? Desert Storm?


What about just after 9-11-01? Would he have been fired for it then?






I'll venture a guess that he wins the lawsuit... based on freedom of speech.
So what he brought a Bible to lunch? Would they prefer he brought a Bob Vila book?


Does not compute. It's a 3 inch button. With a line from our nation's PoA!!!

 

It shouldn't be on the Pledge, either... another holdover from the Cold War. (1954)

And before Casey goes all basso on me, YES I AM AWARE THAT PEOPLE SOMETIMES USED GOD IN THE PLEDGE BEFORE THE COLD WAR. But just like the law on currency, both were directly attributed to the run up of the Cold War and the religious nuts in congress wanting to score cheap political points and stick it to the godless commies.

People who keep saying "but it says God on the money/pledge/monument!!" need to find a new brand of logic... cause the law doesn't give a crap.

I know it may be shocking to some of our religious posters here, religion was not intended to be, nor ever should ever be, in any part of our government.

 

“Faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.”
—Richard Dawkins

 

and that makes them the biggest bunch of whiny douchebags this country has ever seen.

 

please explain how he would win a lawsuit based on freedom of speech when this is a private company. are you for the government forcing private companies to employ anyone and everyone? would this post be the same if his button said "god is a myth"? very doubtful.

 

Which is unnecessary and has caused great controversy in our country. Private businesses have the right to state whether or not employees can pontificate about their faith during work hours, and that's exactly what this guy was doing. It wasn't about patriotism, because they offered him a reasonable alternative and he declined.

Again, they are a private business: they can make that determination. But if they decided tomorrow to remove it, their employees must comply.

First of all, the article states that he was warned ("earlier this month"), so you're wrong. Secondly, had he brought his Bible to work and read it to himself quietly, I doubt HD would have done much about this. But I would wager, though I cannot prove it, that his actions went well beyond sporting a button and reading a book.

Actually, no. I don't remember people wearing pins like that in the 90's. In fact, you didn't see a lot of this Christian political propaganda until after the towers fell. Which brings me to...

People were bat$!+ crazy after 9/11. The Dixie Chicks got burned in effigy for saying they didn't like the President. Bill Maher was fired for refusing to call the 9/11 terrorists "cowards". If the unstable mentality brought about by 9/11 is your baseline for reasonable action, then you have problems, my friend.

I'll take that bet. This is a private business. Free speech is limited when you're at work at a private institution.

I know I'd prefer it. Honestly, some of the folks at HD who don't know a circular saw from a belt sander.

So if it's so inconsequential, there should be no problem removing it, yes?

 

Nobody puts fatty in the corner. He's decided to let his freak flag fly.

 

All I can say is "lol".

 

I agree with this. You're on the job being paid by your employer...he asks you to take it off. You refuse...and then claim some holy ground because you were wearing that sacred pin for Jesus? Give me a break. They're not asking the man to give up his faith...just to stop wearing a pin.

Forget the idolatry of pins, monuments, statues, etc...trying to live your life like Jesus is a far more compelling testimony than the pin on your Home Depot vest. It's just not as easy as reducing faith to a trinket and then battling for your own rights.

And then we wonder why the outside world looks at the Church with such disdain.

“Unless and until the future of the world becomes more important to the Church than it’s own future....the Church has no future in the world.” ~ ~ Ralph Winter

 

This guy gets it. Repped.

 

Okay, I switched to decaf this morning, so perhaps that's why I'm still struggling to understand this post.

Huh?? What does this even mean?

Then it's followed by this:

When what becomes your concern? The fact that Rome got to the homo issue? I, for one, am not really concerned about Rome getting to the homo issue. And what do we need a bad-ass defense for? To defend the fact that we're concerned about Rome getting to the homo issue?

Maybe decaf was a bad idea this morning.

 

Decaf is just a bad idea in general.

 

I've started giving out rep to mediocre/crappy posters simply so I can continue to rep Max...

 

I'm starting to figure this out.

Anyway, I agree with MadMax on this.

What exactly is this guy doing as a Christian to help his fellow man? Is he volunteering at a hospice on weekends? Is he volunteering at a children’s cancer ward? Is he teaching a bible study class at his church? Is he tithing 10% of his income to the church every year?

No. He’s wearing a silly button to work and filing suit against anyone who has a problem with it. I would even guess that this outcome was his end-game all along.

What a hypocrite this guy is…

 

The topic was started in relation to the one of the hotel owner forbidding Spanish, and changing their names on their work pins. What I see is cheers for Home Deport but not the same for the hotel owner. They also claim the hotel owner is alienating Hispanics, and that's not good business, but they don't worry about the alienation of Christians. It is liberal hypocrisy (if not a pure agenda) at its finest.

 

How are the two comparable? Again, Home Depot's decision had nothing to do with religion at all.