I don't think the act of Home Depot firing this man for wearing a pin reading "One Nation Under God, Indivisible" is an anti-Christian act. Surely, there is a policy Home-Depot has about wearing religious affiliated materials, so I am sure it would apply to a Jewish man wearing a yamulke at work just the same. Making assumptions about what Home Depot would do in a situation like this is too presumptuous. Furthermore, a woman coming to work in a hijab would be dealt with in the same manner as the Christian man was. Although it was a bit extreme what Home Depot did by firing this man for refusing to take off the pin, I do not think it demonstrates the prevalence of anti-Christianity in America. Anti-Muslim (and Anti-Semitism) are surely the ugliest problems America is dealing with concerning blatant acts in violation of religious freedom and expression. Anti-Muslim prejudices are definitely worthy of being called an ugly problem in America, especially since the attacks of 9/11. If anything, this man was asked to take off the pin or be fired so that Home Depot could maintain a policy that keeps them from being sued for allowing one form of religious expression at work and not another. In other words, if they don't allow a Christian man to express his religion by wearing a 'religious' pin at work, then they don't have to allow a Muslim to have freedom of religious expression at work. The implicated policy they have surely goes to show the avoidance of the real ugly problem in America which is Anti-Muslim.
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anonymous
Nov 11, 2009
2:13 a.m.
I don't think the act of Home Depot firing this man for wearing a pin reading "One Nation Under God, Indivisible" is an anti-Christian act. Surely, there is a policy Home-Depot has about wearing religious affiliated materials, so I am sure it would apply to a Jewish man wearing a yamulke at work just the same. Making assumptions about what Home Depot would do in a situation like this is too presumptuous. Furthermore, a woman coming to work in a hijab would be dealt with in the same manner as the Christian man was. Although it was a bit extreme what Home Depot did by firing this man for refusing to take off the pin, I do not think it demonstrates the prevalence of anti-Christianity in America. Anti-Muslim (and Anti-Semitism) are surely the ugliest problems America is dealing with concerning blatant acts in violation of religious freedom and expression. Anti-Muslim prejudices are definitely worthy of being called an ugly problem in America, especially since the attacks of 9/11. If anything, this man was asked to take off the pin or be fired so that Home Depot could maintain a policy that keeps them from being sued for allowing one form of religious expression at work and not another. In other words, if they don't allow a Christian man to express his religion by wearing a 'religious' pin at work, then they don't have to allow a Muslim to have freedom of religious expression at work. The implicated policy they have surely goes to show the avoidance of the real ugly problem in America which is Anti-Muslim.