Man fired for "One Nation Under God" button

I agree that a private business has a right to implement and enforce dress codes and then terminate someone if they don't follow. That girl who was fired for wearing a berka caused a huge fuss, and the ACLU is probably smokin' at the ears since it's not Christianity targeted, but that's a private business for ya.

My beef is with the petty annoyance crap. I haven't read the article yet, but I'm sure that one of the "resons" for them wanting buttonless employees has to do with the ONE person in one million who may, possibly, if they're having a bad day and have nothing else to complain about, take "offense" to it.

Everything you don't like has to be removed from sight, because...? The crap is too much for me. And it's definitely not a political thing, per se. A few hundred years ago, if you were "different" from the pack in the slightest, they'd remove you permanently via a stake in the ground and a brush fire! Now it has kinda quasi-reversed, with the "different" person being the one claiming life-altering offense to something, and that means NO ONE can do it.

Okay, now my liberal bashing for the day! I just wouldn't feel right without it lol

Ironically, most of the liberals (far-left progressives, mind you) are all for this huge, glorious, utopian community idea, yet anyone straying from their pack receives the 2009 version of being burned at the stake. They're no different than the psycho Puritans of old in my estimation.

I believe that personal responsibility--living your OWN life and doing for you--should include tolerance of others and not complaining for someone or something to be completely removed from existence just because you don't agree with it. And this is especially true for something petty like a button. Yeah, it's the store's policy, evidently, but the "why" of the policy needing to be in place is the problem.

Extreme examples like employees showing up naked, wearing Hitler costumes, refusing to wash their clothes and making folks gag, etc, I can see. The petty grievance stuff, however, is light years beyond me.

I think Home Depot or any other company has the right to fire an employee who does not obey the rules. I think if he wore it for a year he got his message across and I am pretty sure he had been requested to stop wearing it more than once and therefore should have been fired. I think if he was allowed to get away with not obeying the rules he would be leaving the company open to any employee wearing what ever they chose.

I would have been infuriated if Home Depot fired him for reading his Bible on his lunch hour and also if perhaps a Sikh employee was allowed to have a scimitar, or a Muslim wrapped a prayer rug around his head. But they should not have fired him if he wore it for a year. They should have said something like "anything under your clothes or shirt like a crucifix or cross or anything that can be constried as decorations like pendants and cross earrings is okay, but do not advertise."
But I suspect they fired him not for the button but because he brought his Bible and then it became an offense to them. The button removal deal was just an excuse.
By the way I heard that they have no Merry Christmas signs in their store, but that should not stop anyone from asking "I plan to get a drill set for my husband (or boyfriend( for Christmas, what do you suggest?" loud enough for anyone within hearing range to hear it.

True. Very true. When you work for someone, you have to follow the rules of their house. If you deliberately break the rules, you should expect something to happen and it may not be good.