In Britain a Christian (most likely Catholic) nurse has been told to remove her Crucifix after 31 years of wearing it on a chain around her neck at work. While as Muslim women are able to wear their headscarfs to work.
I'm not surprised really, even Protestants don't like the Crucifix, they prefer the empty cross. As Archbishop Fulton Sheen said in Those Mysterious Priests
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Related links: Christian nurse 'ordered to remove crucifix... at hospital where Muslims were allowed to wear headscarves' ~ Daily Mail
The future and our choices ~ WDTPRS
Update: Why do Catholics have Crucifixes? ~ The Pilot, Patrick Madrid
A Christian nurse was ‘forced to choose between her job and her faith’ after being ordered to remove her crucifix at a hospital where Muslim staff wore headscarves unchallenged, a tribunal heard yesterday.
Shirley Chaplin, 54, said she had been wearing the religious symbol around her neck without complaint for 31 years before she was ordered to hide it away.
But the grandmother claims that after refusing to comply and then pointing out that two women doctors were allowed to wear headscarves, she was moved to a desk job.
Her case has caused uproar among Christian support groups, who feel their beliefs are not being given the same respect as other faiths. At the weekend her case against the NHS was backed by seven senior Anglican bishops who issued a national letter of support.
Yesterday, on the first day of an employment tribunal, Mrs Chaplin, from Kenn, near Exeter, Devon, told of her fight to be allowed to carry on wearing the crucifix.
She is claiming religious discrimination in a case backed by the Christian Legal Centre, which says her treatment is a symptom of increasing discrimination against Christians.
Mrs Chaplin is due to retire later this year but hopes the case will force the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital to change its policy so staff can openly wear crucifixes.
The hospital says she was asked to remove the necklace after a risk assessment showed it could be pulled by one of the patients in her care. They insist it is a health and safety issue and that the problem is not with the crucifix but the necklace it is attached to.
Mrs Chaplin told the tribunal in Exeter she was given the crucifix as a confirmation present and had worn it without complaint throughout her 31-year career.
I'm not surprised really, even Protestants don't like the Crucifix, they prefer the empty cross. As Archbishop Fulton Sheen said in Those Mysterious Priests
:The Crucifix is a reminder of our sins if we do not accept its forgiveness.
Related links: Christian nurse 'ordered to remove crucifix... at hospital where Muslims were allowed to wear headscarves' ~ Daily Mail
The future and our choices ~ WDTPRS
Update: Why do Catholics have Crucifixes? ~ The Pilot, Patrick Madrid