A case involving wearing a crucifix in the workplace has sited two women to file discrimination against their employers. Nadia Eweida and Shirley Chaplin alleged they were discriminated against when their employers forbid them from wearing crosses in the the workplace. Eweida a British Airways employee was suspended from her job for refusing to take off the cross at work , and Chaplin a nurse was barred from her job after she refused to hide a cruifix she wore around her neck on a chain. The women filed a discrimination charge in a case at the court in Strasbourg, France which they are seeking to gain the right to wear a cross. Response from the British government court prepared by the UK Foreign Office from British news said the its response is that "The Government submit that...the applicants' wearing of a visible cross or cruifix was not a manifestion of their religion or belief. In neither case there is any suggestion that the wearing of a cross was generally recogniable as a form of practicing Christianity or the Christian faith. The British government will argue that Christians do not have the right to wear a cruifix openly at work and can be banned by their employer as a reason for being out of uniform for wearing a cross or cruifix. The two women are wanting the court to establish that this was a breach of their human rights. The case is said to be a landmark case before the European Court of Human rights.
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Should prove an interesting case.. ~O_O~ I will pray for them ...
