Company policy on head coverings, gah! - Page 2

[AutumnMelody]

Your letter is very well written, but in all honesty, I have concerns about the possibility of you being discriminated against, in a work place that obviously has no tolerance for diverse religious beliefs. If you could find a way to make them except your covering without disclosing the details of your belief system (and I agree with others that them insisting on this seems illegal, and if it's not it should be!), I think you will be better off.

And completely OT, but I personally loved hearing about your practice and would be really interested to hear more!

[mommaduck]

Please let us know what happens. If it doesn't work out, perhaps we could do a writing campaign on them

[Moonprysm]

I would love to hear more about your research that led to you headcover. I am a christopagan and DH is pagan and he is having a hard time with me headcovering, since it's based on a mixture of personal conviction and the Bible. If I could give him some non-Christian based information on headcovering, I think he would have an easier time with it.

Good luck with Walmart. I'm pretty sure they aren't legally allowed to ask. Just like they can't ask you if you file religious exemption to vaccines.

[GalateaDunkel]

Don't give them all that information about your beliefs!!!!! That just opens up the possibility of a dialogue you don't want to have about their validity, etc., particularly whether you really had to take the oath (because most religious exemptions to dress codes and such are premised on the cultural assumption of religious rules that leave you no choice before God - not religiously-sanctioned personal choices).

Just take the oath and then have your husband (or somebody from a Heathen organization) sign it as clergy. "I am my family's own clergy" just opens up a can of worms...whereas "I belong to this religion, of which my spouse happens to be a clergy" is much harder to dispute. To be clear, that's not a man-woman thing, it's a "how much of a religion can this really be if she can't find a person other than herself to sign the letter?" thing.

Like this:

Dear Wally World:
Ravin, a member of the Asatru faith, is bound by our beliefs to wear this headcovering.* The covering is a symbol of devotion to the goddess Frigga.
Cordially, Gothi Mr. Ravin

*(This is true if you take the oath - because your faith believes the oath is binding - therefore your faith binds you to keep this oath. And you avoid getting into it with them about whether a personal oath meets their GROSSLY ILLEGAL requirement to explain the doctrinal basis.)

[Ravin]

I drafted a much shorter letter that didn't even specify my religion, and personnel was like, "Okay, fine."

The dif btwn my redneck hometown and a diverse city location, perhaps? Or the magic of DH signing "Rev."

[Ruthla]

I'm glad it worked out for you. I doubt their policy is even legal the way it's phrased- I think they're just trying to cut out people wearing funky hats and scarves on "bad hair days".