Devon nurse loses crucifix 'ban' claim at tribunal

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My main thought on hearing this was "Silly woman" (or words to that effect). Stuff like this gives reasonable Christians a bad name, imo.

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I agree with the judgement - having a dangling necklace while dealing with lifting patients etc. could be a problem - for her as much as anything else. It's not a tenet of Christian faith to wear a crucifix, plenty of us manage to express our faith without bling.

Exactly. The same rules should apply to her as everyone else.

I always think people who feel the need to shout their faith at everyone like this must actually be quite insecure in it, to be honest. The most devout Christians I know are the ones that have the least jewellery/stickers/etc.

I disagree.
Headscarves get in the way a lot more than thin chains.There can't be one rule for one which doesn't apply to another.Increasingly,I feel we have to follow France and Turkey and get rid of all religious accoutrements.

I agree with the ruling - sometimes things are taken to the nth degree to prove a point and the people seem to emerge just looking like loons ... and common sense is lost ..

The tragedy of it all is how much this non-event has cost everybody to satisfy some woaman's vanity ...

i disagree with the scarf thing though.

you can hurt youself / your patients if they grab and pull at a necklace, whereas a scarf wouldn't.

Reading the press reporting of the case, it wasn't an outright No to the cross - the health authorities looked to see if a compromise could be found, but the woman seemed adamant that there was no wriggle room ..

A headscarf (IIRC) is not compulsory Muslim dress, but perhaps because they didn't make a song and dance about it ....

She was offered the opportunity to pin the crucifix to her uniform but no, that wasn't good enough - loon!

Believe me-plenty of people make a big song and dance about wearing a scarf!

It ticks me off that the woman and her advisers have tried to make this into a religious discrimination issue when it's a simple safety issue. Ridiculous bleating that does no one any favours.

This was a couple of years ago. Unless this is another one.

This is current, hocuspantas.

Silly woman indeed. They offered her the option of putting it in a pocket or wearing it on her lanyard (so still on display). But no, she wanted to wear her necklace. It's not about religious discrimination, however much she would like it to be.

hocuspontas, sorry

It's probably taken 2 years to get to a tribunal.

At least you tried Kay. I usually get called hocuspocus