But It's Not My Job!

[joreth]

*sigh* Sometimes I just want to smack people upside the heads. One of the arguments I've seen defending the Kentucky clerk for refusing to sign gay marriage licenses is that her job *changed*. She didn't sign up for a job knowing that she'd have to do something against her principles, that wasn't part of her job when she agreed to work. Now it is.

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[mouser]

You are hired to run a camera. Instead of the political event, you find out it's hobo fight porn where they are paid in cheap wine. If you find the comparison offensive, understand that if she's willing to go as far as she has, she probably finds gay marriage offensive too.

I agree that she's completely wrong. The problem is that if this were reversed, most of my friends would be cheering her on. THAT I have an issue with.

Most social change in this country isn't made by people being quiet, and that's what she's looking to do.

Something else to consider - if she quietly left, her prejudices are not confronted. The only way that things change are when we bring the worst of our behaviors into the light and ask "IS THIS WHAT WE ALL ARE?"

Anger and prejudice like this that are not confronted do nothing but grow. So, yea - I want her to fight loud and long, then fail VERY publicly.

[cardinalximinez]

The downside is she won't fail. Even if she's fired, pays a fine, and spends some time in jail, she will more than make that up when she sells her book about the attack on religion in America, and lands a pundit job on Fox News.

That's what makes this so insidious. It's a win/win for her.

[joreth]

If I find out it's a hobo fight, I still don't get to sit behind my camera and collect a paycheck without shooting the event. It doesn't matter what the event is, no one should be able to collect a paycheck for NOT DOING THEIR JOB.

I never said she had to go quietly. She can make as much noise as she wants on her way out the door. That's her constitutional right of free speech. What she shouldn't get to do is collect $80K taxpayer dollars a year and not fulfill her legal obligations of her office.