A Target retail outlet in North Dakota has been forced to apologize for firing an employee because she is a Christian.
The employee, Denise Kendrick of Fargo was fired because she dared to put “Trust in Jesus” on her name tag instead of her “pronouns.”
After she put the slogan on her name tag, she says that her supervisor told her she was not allowed to wear it that way. When she refused to take it off, they fired her.
Per The Blaze:
Kendrick noted in a video on her YouTube channel, “For several months, I had been wearing my red T-shirts that I ordered myself, my Christian red T-shirts, OK. I didn’t wear the he/she/they/whatever T-shirts that Target supplied. I wore my own and never had any problem the whole entire time that I worked there.”‘
Besides an apparent absence of backlash from customers, Kendrick indicated that the “trust in Jesus” note was her equivalent to other employees’ name-tag displays of belief and ideological affiliation.
“I replied, ‘Well, I’ve seen people with rainbows on theirs. I’m going to continue to wear this name tag,'” Kendrick told KVLY. “And then they said, ‘Well, you can’t work here any more.'”
Kendrick added that she ended up fired after a customer who was a radical LGBTQ activist had talked to her bosses.
But after taking her case to the media, Target now says she was fired by “mistake” and that she has been offered her job back.
“We are taking the appropriate steps to address the actions taken by the individual leader involved in this situation and are working with the store to ensure our policies are appropriately followed moving forward,” Target added in a statement.
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