Don't you get it Belly.Divide and conquer.Set Christians against Muslims,Jews and aethiests, while the likes of the Rothschilds screw us with debt.

They already own Greece and Italy.Who is next?

It is a valid point about the pagan origins of the cross - I wonder why christians want to wear it...
There are some valid safety issues as well - you wouldn't want to be strangled by machinery by a neckchain getting caught up.
People who work in public service need to be accessible to everyone - a huge ostentatious cross would be a little offputting in a healthcare setting such as a family planning clinic. These issues need to be sorted out reasonably but a little sensible guidance would help more than a blanket ban.

I came to this thread after reading comments on Muslim women wearing face veils. There are parallels in these 2 issues. The question is 'Does the item actually prevent the person from doing a proper job?'

You can't really argue that either a face veil or a symbolic crucifix make any difference to a person's ability. There is one essential difference however - some people (like me) have to cover their face at times. I have an allergic reaction to perfume in the air and often find I have to breathe through a filter in public places like meetings, council offices and on public transport. (I've also had a big problem when I was being held in a police cell and then photographed. Having no choice but to breathe perfume there left me ill for about a month.)

There are also situations where people with disfigurements cover their face to avoid distress. This actually improves communication effectiveness. We should all be standing together against ridiculous state interference in matters like these.

OUG name names? read the link bloke.
Arjay! not sure anything you and I talk about can be civil.
Mate this may well be a CONSPIRACY! but tip the bucket over and look under it.
Why would a part of the world that is Christian, want this?
Suseonline I can not buy the pagan thing,as you know all religion has those roots.
I think a look at the link is called for,It seems this fight in the Human rights court, is seeing governments take a stand,against the cross.
Is the intention to remove all religious links at work, what next.
As a nonbeliever how am I harmed by open support for any belief.
I truly, think, some true effort at planning our [humanity's] future is underway.
I think some group/power/ maybe the UN, is trying to breed, and it would only take 50 years, a new humanity.
Taking first the things that hold us together.
I am on record and think,religion is too controlling and basically a fraud.
But it is our fraud and if we are to give up simple freedoms then we are less for it.

I can't see a problem with Christians being nailed to a cross at their work place. Seriously, as a non believer wearing a cross falls into the same category as smiley faces and scout badges. Once a year I buy a Legacy badge and wear it at work. At Xmas my partner does the Christian thing and wears reindeer antlers (which flash on and off) tee shirts, funny hats, and little Santa's etc. Come this Friday she is doing more of the Christian stuff at work, wearing a bright green felt hat and badges,a regular St Patrick.
We should not be so worried about cross wearing but far more concerned about the dangerous distorted nonsense so called Christians and others peddle in society. The power they exert over people. The criminality of religion.

I apologize in advance that I have nothing to add to the discussion on crucifixes at work, except to point out once again that the government's action is a valid approach to addressing a weakness in the law, not an attack on Christianity.

But I was intrigued by this throwaway line, offered up by farfromtheland.

>>I've also had a big problem when I was being held in a police cell and then photographed. Having no choice but to breathe perfume there left me ill for about a month<<

Where could these highly-perfumed cells be, I wondered. Newtown, perhaps, or Paddington? Or could it be that our boys in blue these days smother themselves in Bulgari for Men, filling the lock-up with the subtle aromas of juniper berries, sandalwood, cedar and galanga?

It's like overhearing that odd sentence of the bus, that you spend the rest of the day pondering...

paul raises a good point
imagine not allowing a pink ribbon

these items of dress..is a choice
what now govt can order us what we can or cannot wear?

sure alp/liberal basdges is ok
but heck anyother....thats against the 2 party line

oh and pericules wonder no more
go talk to some of them female [police men sometime]

it must be that so much they are required to do stinks really bad
they cover it over with perfume[as you do when you cant go and wash the scum of life away]

and if they tackle ya
the stink clings on..[i can still smell it on one tshirt]
contanimated on a rainy day[it seems water fixes it into the material]

not being able to breath that stinky perfume
is the main reason i resumed smoking

how do you non smokers
stand the stink?

ability to smell [in public]
is an over rated gift