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South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com
Home Depot worker fired for wearing 'under God' button
WPTV-CH. 5
6:15 AM EDT, October 26, 2009
OKEECHOBEE
Trevor Keezer didn't start working at The Home Depot to make a religious statement. He just wanted to earn money for college.
"I want to go to school to become a nurse," said the 20-year-old Okeechobee resident.
Keezer says for 19 months, ever since he started working as a cashier at The Home Depot in Okeechobee, he's worn a button with an American flag on it that reads: "One nation under God, indivisible."
Keezer sees the quotation, taken from the pledge of allegiance, as his way of supporting American troops at war, and of expressing his Christian faith.
In December, his older brother Army Spc. Steven Keezer Jr., is scheduled to deploy to Iraq for his second tour of duty.
For more than a year, Keezer says none of his managers mentioned the button on his Home Depot apron, except one supervisor who commented she liked it.
"She actually wanted to wear it," Keezer said.
Then, last month, when he started bringing his Bible to work, Keezer says his manager confronted him about the button.
"That's when I was told it had to come off, or I would be sent home. So they sent me home for six straight days without pay. And then today they terminated me," he said...............>>>>.............>>>>....................http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/sfl-button-fired-bn102609,0,3892174.story |
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