Unfriendly word from on high

[Father Bill]

You know, any making of choice is a form of discrimination. I discriminate against wearing my wife's earrings in the morning. I discriminate against one brand of aftershave vs. another. Some days I discriminate between wearing grey trousers in favour of brown.

Having said that, each individual and each corporation has an image of itself that it wishes to project. If you don't want to be part of that image, then maybe you and the company are incompatible and you do indeed have the choice to leave, just as they have the choice to ask you to do so if you can't play along.

I would certainly leave a company if I felt that they were immoral, racist, bigotted, criminal, crude, or hate-filled, but because my favourite outfit didn't match their wish to project a certain image? You've gotta be kiddin'!

I get up most mornings and put on a black shirt and clerical collar because that's the preference of my "corporation". I'm not actually even required to do so, but I'm happy to cooperate because I share the church's values (most of them, anyway! ) If I didn't, I'd leave, but over a love of my kilts?

I don't think so.