Action Alert: Thank Home Depot for Upholding Its Policy

Home Depot Stands Up to Pressure from Christians, Media

October 30, 2009

Home Depot in Okeechobee, Fla., recently terminated one of its employees for refusing to remove his "One nation under God, indivisible" pin from his employee uniform. Home Depot has a strictly enforced dress code that states non-company buttons, regardless of their content or message, are not allowed.

The 19-year-old, Trevor Keezer, said his pin was in part to express his Christian faith. Keezer began bringing his bible to work, which prompted his manager to confront him on the pin. He was warned and sent home for six days without pay, and still refused to remove the pin that violated store policy. Home Depot has stuck by its decision to terminate the employee, and as a result has received negative feedback from the Christian community, including local businesses.

Now Keezer plans to sue Home Depot, based in Atlanta. Home Depot needs to hear your support!

Please send messages of support to the Home Depot corporate headquarters in Atlanta about Okeechobee Home Depot terminating Trevor Keezer. Because Christian media have adopted this as a martyr case, letters to the editor, in favor of the store's decision, to local papers would be very helpful. (Remember to keep letters to the editor brief—under 150 words, sign your name and address and, for maximum effectiveness, write as an individual, not as an FFRF member responding to this action alert). Please thank Home Depot for maintaining a secular environment free of dogma in its stores and for sticking to its policies and principles.

We are pleased to receive "blind" duplicates of your letters or responses by e-mail: bgutsch@ffrf.org, Freedom From Religion Foundation.

Contact

Chairman and CEO Frank Blake
Home Depot Inc.
2455 Paces Ferry Road NW
Atlanta GA 30339
E-Mail Form

More Information

Read coverage in USA Today

Read a Palm Beach Post Op-Ed by Frank Cerabino in Favor of Keezer's Termination

Action Alert by Bonnie Gutsch