Felbrigg Hall, reversed a decision to bar volunteers from public-facing duties at the Norfolk stately home if they refuse to wear rainbow sexual equality symbols
WHATEVER the issue, no-one should be forced to wear badges with a social message if they don’t want to.
The National Trust appears to have alienated a number of its volunteers by insisting they wear gay pride badges marking 50 years since the decriminalisation of homosexuality.
Charities make a major error if they don’t value their most precious commodity - volunteers – and treat them with care. Objectors feel they’re being told how to behave and that it shows a lack of respect.
Consultation and acknowledging individual rights to choose to wear the badge could have avoided this confrontation. Now everyone loses.
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