Why does this woman still have a job?

[NotHardUp1]

That Kim Davis can or will receive donations is immaterial. She can sell her story to whomever, or just become lionized.

What matters is the rule of law is upheld, and it is.

Jumping to conclusions about her motives is a distraction. She could be sincerely wrong or cynically opportunistic like Rush Limbaugh, but it matters not. The law is the law, and it prevailed.

She can become rich, forgotten, political, or whatever, but the law prevailed. She lost. End of story.

 

[jbrown329]

#GodHatesAdultery: Westboro Baptist church turns on Kim Davis for causing ‘F*g marriage’

Proving that there is no limit to fundamentalist Christian extremism, the ultra-conservative Westboro Baptist church has launched a crusade against Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis despite all parties being against same-sex marriage.

While Davis is sitting in jail on contempt charges for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, members of the extremist Westboro Baptist church in Topeka are threatening to go to Kentucky to protest against Davis for being an adulteress –due to having been married four times — and for causing “F*g marriage” because of her sinfulness.

Rawstory

 

[gsdx]

^ Wow. It's pretty bad when they attack the people who ride in the same car pool.

 

[NotHardUp1]

That is again the fallacy of assuming us vs. them.

Davis and Westboro are religious extremists. That doesn't imply alliance nor political caucus. It implies religious extremism, period.

There are hundreds and thousands of tiny sects that have no collaboration, only similar views on some issues.

This isn't ISIS. This isn't Al Qaeda. ISIS and Al Qaeda are necessarily unified alliances.

It may be tempting to create monstrous straw men when it is in fact a lot of Lilliputians.

 

[SLOPPYSECONDS]

litull drop a blood a here ans there
-ans all a suddan_
anoda play fa
"1st world zombees"

anyway

wot a jolly time folkees gets out a many a rules ans teys pets

tinku

 

[ClevelandTodd]

I saw a great headline today, I didn't even need to read the story, lol.

"Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis Is No Rosa Parks. She's The Bus Driver".

 

[jbrown329]

I saw a great headline today, I didn't even need to read the story, lol.

"Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis Is No Rosa Parks. She's The Bus Driver".

Would you happen to have a link for that? I'd like to post it elsewhere. TIA

 

[ClevelandTodd]

Sure. Here ya go.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/kentucky-clerk-kim-davis-civil-rights_55eb1a09e4b093be51bbb148?utm_hp_ref=gay-voices

 

[jbrown329]

^^ thanks!

 

[gsdx]

This isn't ISIS. This isn't Al Qaeda. ISIS and Al Qaeda are necessarily unified alliances.

No, it isn't. But I thought it was a pretty good joke.

 

[smokeshadow]

Sure. Here ya go.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/kentucky-clerk-kim-davis-civil-rights_55eb1a09e4b093be51bbb148?utm_hp_ref=gay-voices

And, the best thing about the Rosa Parks analogy is that NO ONE remembers the bus drivers name. . .just like NO ONE will remember this idiot's name in the same amount of years

 

[SLOPPYSECONDS]

And, the best thing about the Rosa Parks analogy is that NO ONE remembers the bus drivers name. . .just like NO ONE will remember this idiot's name in the same amount of years

mean a publics or upgradeds ta woteva
_public a alway a present world ova ta manys sumthangs a ways or it plays_
anyway

tinku

 

[Vitamin]

#GodHatesAdultery: Westboro Baptist church turns on Kim Davis for causing ‘F*g marriage’
Rawstory

A fascinating case of hate hating hate. It must bring a tear to the devil's eye.

 

[HoodedRat]

A fascinating case of hate hating hate. It must bring a tear to the devil's eye.

... and no one does venomous spiteful hatred quite like hypocritical religious bigots.

 

[HoodedRat]

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/09/05/travel/muslim-flight-attendant-feat/

Another one.

What is it with these people? Why do they seem to think that their freely chosen belief system entitles them to pick and choose which elements of their job they are able to perform?

Do your fucking job or let someone more capable have it!

 

[SLOPPYSECONDS]

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/09/05/travel/muslim-flight-attendant-feat/

Another one.

What is it with these people? Why do they seem to think that their freely chosen belief system entitles them to pick and choose which elements of their job they are able to perform?

Do your fucking job or let someone more capable have it!

no hard figa be a weligion politic shoe size golf butt etc so on
_anyway_
human civlied up latests wills a nose modified ors a nots
" muhawahawoohoo "

tinku

 

[SaskGuy]

Yea, I'm starting to see a lot of news articles about fundies supporting her... like on Facebook.
Luckily I don't have any friends who are calling this "religious persecution", but I'm reading comments on these news articles that say that. I bet if a Muslim did the same thing, those same people would be crying to give her the chair.

When Canada legalized gay marriage nation wide, there wasn't even close to being this much drama. Even in Saskatchewan, Alberta, and Manitoba. In fact, it went along quite smoothly. There is still rampant homophobia here (such as the gay restaurant owners in rural Manitoba who got run out of town), but it's still not nearly as bad as parts of the US.
Imagining a world that much more right-wing than the prairie provinces is almost unbelievable. Then again, late at night when I'm doing some AM radio DX'ing and I pick up right-wing American talk shows, I would assume the USA is some type of totalitarian fascist dictatorship if I didn't know much about the country. Hearing guys blabber on about evil liberals and dirty fags on the radio is so foreign to me... in Canada, our media is generally quite neutral (except for CBC, which leans to the left a bit.) When we had a right-wing news channel (that seemed like nothing more than a hilarious FOX parody), it was considered a joke, and they eventually went under.

(Then again, AM radio isn't a good representation because in the US, the AM band has degenerated into talk radio and religious programming. In Canada, there's still a lot of music stations on AM (mostly oldies, classic hits, and country, rural community stations, etc... some of which are even in stereo!))

 

[jbrown329]

^^ Ronald Regan/Fairness Doctrine Then media consolidation. There are 5 corporations that own almost all the news.

 

[SLOPPYSECONDS]

own a news < funnay dat

_wata a free?_

sssssh"

tinku

 

[NotHardUp1]

What is it with these people? Why do they seem to think that their freely chosen belief system entitles them to pick and choose which elements of their job they are able to perform?

Do your fucking job or let someone more capable have it!

The story moves the argument from the realm of public servant duties to mere employee responsibilities. I agree that private industry should also not be compelled to make exemption for its employees when the task in question is a normal duty, unchanged from the date of hire, being required of its worker. The Muslim flight attendant converted to Islam after becoming a flight attendant. She chose a religion that conflicted with her employment. Her argument that she didn't know it for two years after is irrelevant. She is choosing now, so that's moot.

Is a pole dancer in Vegas going to be allowed to draw her pay as an entertainer after she becomes a Fundamentalist and is no longer allowed to gyrate on stage or don lascivious attire? Hardly.

The only exception I can see is an employer should make reasonable attempts to accommodate reassignment if job duties change after an employee is hired. A waitress cannot be compelled to become a stripper just because she works for a casino and her employment description includes "other duties as required."