Home Depot Holy War (Florida man Fired for wearing God pin at hardware store) [View All]

Source: NBC Miami

Florida man Fired for wearing God pin at hardware store

Trevor Keezer said he wasn't on a crusade, he was just wearing a button to work.

The Okeechobee man says his love of God and country got him fired from his Home Depot job, after he wore an American Flag pin on his orange apron that read "One nation, under God...Indivisible."

Though Keezer, 20, wore the pin to work for over a year and a half, he said the button brouhaha didn't begin until he brought a bible to work to read during lunch breaks.

"That's when I was told it had to come off, or I would be sent home. So they sent me home for six straight days without pay. And then today they terminated me," Keezer told WPTV late last week. "It never crossed my mind to take off the button because I'm standing for something that's bigger than I am. They kept telling me the severity of what you're doing and I just let God be in control and went with His plan."

Keezer, a cashier, said he was wearing the pin to support the troops, including his older brother Steven, who is heading to Iraq in December for his second tour, while also expressing his Christian faith.

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