# Fired Home Depot cashier - how do Right-leaning people feel?

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fired-home-depot-cashier-how-do-right-leaning-people-feel/515609
**Category:** Great Debates
**Created:** [October 29, 2009, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fired-home-depot-cashier-how-do-right-leaning-people-feel/515609 "2009-10-29T14:56:01Z")
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### Author: ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2009, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fired-home-depot-cashier-how-do-right-leaning-people-feel/515609/81 "2009-10-30T04:06:30Z")

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Thus confirming what was long suspected: God is nice and all, but He takes a back seat in matters involving the Holy Marketplace.

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### Author: ![Uzi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/91b2a8/32.png) [@Uzi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uzi)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2009, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fired-home-depot-cashier-how-do-right-leaning-people-feel/515609/82 "2009-10-30T04:41:06Z")

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> [@smiling\_bandit](#):
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> Now would I fire a Hindu for having a small desktop shrine …

One reason not to allow this is to avoid peanuts shells on the floor:  
Homer tries to give the elephant a peanut.  
“Please do not offer my god a peanut!” [/Apu]

[QUOTE=Sam Stone]  
Lumber yard organized in convenient ark-building product sections.  
Interlocking patio bricks designed to make trumpet-proof walls.

[/QUOTE]

That’s in the Jewish section. Aisle 666 or something.

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### Author: ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2009, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fired-home-depot-cashier-how-do-right-leaning-people-feel/515609/83 "2009-10-30T16:08:47Z")

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> [@smiling bandit](#):
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> Now would I fire a Hindu for having a small desktop shrine or a Jew for… uh… well… doing something Jewish (sorry, drawing total blank right now).

I just re-read this. Before anyone notices (i.e., after two freaking pages of forum posts) I am not good at typing. That should say, “_wouldn’t_”

> [@ArchiveGuy](#):
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> Performing a bris.

Yeah, exactly. I’m not going to complain if some Jewish employee performs a bris on the job.

Wait. Waaaaaaaiiiit. Daddy didn’t think that one through. 😃

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