Offended by the American Flag?

[zdunklee]

It sounds to me as though the supervisor who complained was probably more upset about the way the flag was being used, or the size of the flag and NOT what it represented.

Disagree. I don't know where you got the information for your side of the story, but I'm much more inclined to believe the guys'. Remember that story about the art students laying flags on the floor and people would just walk on them and no one cared? That type of behavior seems to be much more common than someone making a fuss about how the flag was used. Plus if this supervisor really cared about how the flag was displayed, she would not have placed it on the floor.

If she had an Obama or McCain bumper sticker on her car they can ask her to remove them as well.

While you may be right about asking someone to remove a McCain bumper sticker from their car (though that doesn't seem realistic), if someone had a Puerto Rican flag hanging from their rearview mirror, no one would say shit. That is the point.

They actually couldn't say shit about a Puerto Rican flag hanging in your car because that would be discrimination by national origin which is illegal by federal law, same with sex, age, disability, etc.

So let me get this straight, you can not be discriminated against by your company for being Puerto Rican (which by the way is an American Territory) but you can be discriminated against by your company for being Republican. I get it.

No, they would have to not allow ANY political bumper stickers. They can't legally single out any one group of people but it would have to be a company wide policy. It is discrimination if they single you out but not the guy that sits in the cubicle next to you and they wouldn't want that court case to happen.