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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — A above accountant for The Home Depot who has been cutting a "One nation beneath God" button on his assignment accessory for added than a year has been fired, he says because of the religious reference. The aggregation claims that cogent such claimed behavior is artlessly not allowed.
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"I've beat it for able-bodied over a year and I abutment my country and God," Trevor Keezor said Tuesday. "I was aloof accomplishing what I anticipate every American should do, aloof adulation my country."
The American banderole button Keezer wore in the Florida abundance back March 2008 says "One nation beneath God, indivisible."
Earlier this month, he began bringing a Bible to apprehend during his cafeteria breach at the abundance in the rural boondocks of Okeechobee, about 140 afar arctic of Miami. That's back he says The Home Depot administration told him he would accept to abolish the button.
Keezer refused, and he was accursed on Oct. 23, he said.
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"It feels affectionate of like a punishment, like I was punished for aloof admiring my country," Keezer said.
A Home Depot agent said Keezer was accursed because he abandoned the company's dress code.
"This accessory chose to abrasion a button that bidding his religious beliefs. The affair is not whether or not we accede with the bulletin on the button," Craig Fishel said. "That's not our abode to say, which is absolutely why we accept a absolute policy, which is abiding and well-communicated to our associates, that alone company-provided pins and badges can be beat on our aprons."
Fishel said Keezer was offered a company-approved pin that said, "United We Stand," but he declined.
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Keezer's lawyer, Kara Skorupa, said she planned to sue the Atlanta-based company.
"There are federal and accompaniment laws that assure adjoin religious discrimination," Skorupa said. "It's not like he was out in the aisles admonition to people."
Keezer said he was alive at the abundance to acquire money for college, and wore the button to abutment his country and his 27-year-old brother, who is in the National Guard and is set to address in December for a additional bout of assignment in Iraq.
Skorupa acclaimed the byword on Keezer's pin is beeline from the Pledge of Allegiance.
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"These mottos and sayings that absorb God, that's allotment of our country and actual fabric," Skorupa said. "In God we assurance is on our money."
Michael Masinter, a civilian rights and application law assistant at NOVA Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, said any accusation over religious bigotry ability be a boxy one to win.
"Because it's a clandestine business, not one that's endemic and operated by the government, it doesn't accept to accomplish beneath the chargeless accent accoutrement of the First Amendment," Masinter said.
"But we're not talking about religious displays here," he said. "This sounds added like a political bulletin ... Cutting a button of that array would not calmly be declared as a acceptable anatomy of religious announcement like cutting a cantankerous or cutting a yarmulke."
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