WOW in this day and age there is still dicrimination

that is like asking a middle eastern indian to remove the dot from their forehead. Frickin east coast goombas (yeah i am from CA wanna make somthing of it) i hope he sues the crap outta them. I am a catholic and i would have cleaned mine off if asked nicely ( no i havent received ashes in a number of years but respect those who do). trilby16 must be a goomba -- the same idiot probably wants all rag heads to take their towel off. ITS PART OF THEIR RELIGION DIPSHIT!!!!!!!

W.W.L.D. -What Would Leona Do?

Can you imagine the _hit-storm that would have been, if the manager said "Get that beanie off your head," or "take that rag off?" That hotel would be closed by now. Seriously.

The Catholic Church is effed up - no doubt - but hate speech vs. Catholics is completely tolerated in the media and in the workplace.

I agree-- the only PC group to mock these days seems to be Catholics. The point is that an employer doesn't have the right to forbid an employee to observe a religious practice as long as it's not interfering with work (and you can't exactly argue that this was interfering with his performance). I'm glad the dude got fired-- no one should have to put up with a hostile, discriminatory work environment.

I Didn't do the ashes this year, kind of disappointed with the Church's stance on condoms. But the manager deserved to be fired.

The ashes were sort of cool. It was membership in a special club that prevented eternal damnation of your immortal soul and casting of your body into the eternal flame.

When seeing other Catholics around it made it clear: Yeah, I'm with you.

Catholics stay in hotels too. Perhaps the company doesn't want to lose a large swath of the paying public in one feld swoop because some idiot manager can't speak to an employee in a civilized manner.

This dude totally should've been fired-- not because he asked the guy to remove the ash, but the way he asked him to. His request seemed tinged with such a level of contempt and disrespect.

I am glad that the manager got fired-- if he's that insensitive he shouldn't work at a hotel anyway. I am often shocked by how clueless some people are about this aspect of Catholicism.

Now if we could just get the Pope to stop killing millions of people by telling them that condoms are bad...

Worst of all, he was fired on the day that his tips from co-religionists increased dramatically.

St. Cathol wept

what was thay guy, a nazi?

Was the general manager fired before or AFTER the negative press coverage?

And how did the press find out about the incident in the first place?

Wow, haven't read this much Catholic hatorade since "Sex and the City". Give me Sunday Catholics over Evangelicals any day.

Christianity. Making people wear funny clothes with pointy hats and putting stupid shit on their faces since 0001 A.D.

Luckily the Flying Spaghetti Monster does not require me to go through such rituals.

I am a recovering Catholic and think the whole tradition is absolutely fucking retarded. The Catholic Church is a tax dodging, child molesting, sexual repressing, homosexual hating organization-pure and simple. It disgusts me that people still attend church considering the history of this abomination. Now I have to go to confession-Catholic guilt is embedded in my DNA now...

Sounds like the Church just exacerbated some self-hating syndrome you were likely born with.

uh no dumbass-stick to hating bike lanes and another shit and let me hate Catholics

Hehe ... we agree on something.