I have read the thread - a little hurriedly in places.

I have visited the links - the TV one does not work. It is a report about something else, now.

I am not religious.

The code of conduct does not prohibit what is reported as having happened. There is no evidence of denial of diversity and equality. The power of an employer to create a diversity and equaity code does not create an unlimited right to require the ridiculous. The power is rightly limited to what is reasonable and lawful (it is an aspect of the employers power of command). The code itself is not in evidence here but it is hard to see how it could "lawfully and reasonably" have prohibited what was done.

The apparent outcome is exactly right.

I am quite alarmed by Maher's views on how far his power of command (and maybe droit de seigneur too) extends.