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

Let's all pile on this idiot for wearing that flagrant violation of intelligence.

First of all, yes he should have removed the pin when Home Depot asked him to remove it. They have a policy of approving these things so if they don't approve it, he is a paid employee and he should remove it.

Second, there are alot of well meaning people who put these supposedly 'Christian' bumper stickers on their cars, wear these 'Christian' t shirts, have crosses somewhere in their wardrobe etc who are thinking that somehow this is a good thing and they are expressing something positive in their life

Third, alot of these people are basically pretty nice and really have just grown up with a different perspective than I have but I don't even think about it and if I did I would never blast on perceived stupid religious ignorance.

Fourth, it's fine for Home Depot to have this type policy and enforce it- I get it I write company employee policy handbooks


BUT FIFTH, all of the righteous indignation on this board over this "zealot's" mishandling of the issue fits somewhere in the same ball park as his attitude

The guy is an employee not Mother Teresa, I get it.

Carry on, pile on.

 

Being Christian is not a race, it's a choice. You cannot equate the two. A Hispanic person cannot stop being Hispanic. A Christian person can, indeed, stop foisting his religion on others.

 

A Hispanic can change their name and speak English.

Your typical liberal attitude says it all.

 

You choose to be Christian. You don't choose your name. Does taking off a pin make you less Christian? Doubt it. Does forcibly changing your name change who you are? Up for debate.

I think the Hotel owner is an idiot, but he should have the right to BE an idiot and run his business into the ground. Same as Home Depot.

Although in Home Depot's case they aren't infringing on the worker nearly as much as Hotel guy.

That isn't hypocrisy. Hypocrisy would be saying that the Hotel owner shouldn't be allowed to make his own decisions due to the subject matter, while Home Depot can.

 

at the heart of my concern in my post isn't the employer or the employee, but the failure of the Church to teach what it means to be a Christian, beyond just picking a side and wearing the t-shirt.

the employee/employer issue is clear to me. there's a policy against religious/political messages worn by employees...it's in the handbook. as an employee you live by those rules or you find another job. as a Christian, when the manager comes and asks you to take it off, you do so in an effort to keep peace...or you simply say, "i can not do that, so i will find another job. thanks."

 

Too many t-shirt Jesus fans?

 

They are just as bad as college t-shirt fans.

 

I don't even want to hear some Christian group start declaring how 'persecuted' we are.

 

People picking a "side" because of where they're born with very little sense of devotion or life change at all. I see this too frequently in the Church in the US, and particularly in the Bible Belt. It follows with it the same sense of "i'm on this team which is good, and you're on that team which is bad." It points fingers at a culture for failing to follow tenents it never set out to follow in the first place. And it wholly fails to see ALL human beings as being treasured and loved by the God that makes that point so clearly in the Bible. Way too much co-opting of the Church for political purposes, as well, which might be part of this discussion too.

 

And, yet, they're still Hispanic.

 

Not at Home Depot he doesn't. His freedom to parade his religion or push it on others ceased when he signed his employment documents. He does, however, have the freedom to not work there if he doesn't like the personal expression policies there.

 

Many people are born into religion. It is their culture and heritage. Please stop playing dumb. If this was an Apache American Indian the attitude would be much different from the left. The would be no cheers for Home Depot. Be honest. That's the hypocrisy.

 

And yet it is still a choice.

 

you know anyone who had a pin attached to their body when they were born?

 

he's the one making an issue out of it, not us.

 

Can it there, Righteous indignation boy.

 

exactly

in my view of Jesus, I spend about equal time pointing his story out to those who claim to be Christian as those who claim not to be Christian

personally, this is much ado about something very simple, when your employer asks you to take your pin off take it off

I do not like those honk bumper stickers and pins and blah blah, that's just me, but I also know alot of those people who buy that stuff are the ones I ask to go down and clean up the city park in 100 degree June and they show up, they are the ones I ask to give some money to help some kids have food and clothing and they blow my mind with the check amounts, some of them just need an explanation

this guy, I don't know, I don't understand why he would even make a big deal out of it. But I hope he was nice to his customers and I pray he just leaves it be, he probably won't- might show up on some 'Christian' tv show I don't know


MadMax keep fighting for authentic love

Jesus has a way of getting around the steeple and reaching the people

 

Do you know anyone who spoke Spanish and knew their name when they were born?