Don’t be so quick to judge. I am not a bible thumper. I am a citizen opposed to this type of behavior when it effects public policy. He needs to move into private sector if he wishes to pursue this new identity. There is no place in government for this type of distraction. That is my point, nothing to do with religion. I find it ironic you quote a bible passage regarding judging, yet make a judgemental comment regarding “bible thumpers”. Just find that interesting.
I’m not hiding behind a bible, a god, or a church, and bible thumping isn’t a judgment, it’s a title. If you read what i said in reference to the quotes, i was refering to those who use religion as an excuse/ reason for their actions when their actions or comments go against things taught in their own religions. Form your own opinion, fine, everyone is perfectly entitled to it, but don’t use your religion as a reason for hatred, i don’t believe it was intended for that. Most religions are supposed to bring peace and love, but they’ve been used to defend wars, murders, and other horrible thing. And how does becoming a woman effect public policy??????? Appearance isn’t everything and she can still do her job if people give her a chance, she did the job fine for 14 years as a he, why is being a woman going to change that??
Again, I feel very sorry for this guy, this man. I really think it is not that easy to change ones sexuality, from male to female or female to male. It is mostly a cosmetic job intended to help the transexuals body image....not treat the transexuality. It use to be considered a mental illness, a form of flight and dissociation.... but with the advent of the strong gay rights politics, the transexual movement for their Rights has copied the gay rights, for theirs.
Often the transexual values his fantasy of becoming a woman MUCH more than he values anyone or anything else: be that God, morality, consequences, his wife or children or family, and everyone is expected to honor their strange desires and behaviour, as if the world evolved around their desire to be what they really are not and can never be. Clearly this is a mental illness that our medical doctors do not know how to cure, so they have allowed this transexual movement to infect , infect our schools and media and our children with their point of view. Because of the relative thinking in our culture, what was once UNTHINKABLE is now demanded as if it were a right.
I mean no harm to any transexual, but i wish and pray the medical establishment would wake up and root out the people encouraging transexuality as a normal life choice, when it is not! This prevents science from even looking for insight and treatment and a cure for this terrible DISEASE!
People have no idea what it is like to love someone all their lives and watch them metamorphisis into a completely different person. Yeah, free world, live and let live, BUT, this is not a healthy thing, it is a cruel and destructive thing and many psychologists encourage these individuals to BE TOTALLY SELFISH and think of no one mattering but their own desire to become the opposite sex. This is not true medicine! This is psychological BUTCHERY! this is every mothers worst nightmare, that some creepy pervert might jump their child and mutilate them sexually, only now the medical establishment is involved...and tries to make it seem LEGITIMATE, ..I want to say THIS IS NOT A LEGITAMATE OPTION FOR INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES OR SOCIETY It is a cruel cruel thing!!
Now, in our country, if our teenage child decides they want this for themselves, the doctors are not allowed by law to tell or talk to the parents, and are free to do anything they please and decide for the child involved in wanting to be a different sex! Schools teach this as a normal lifestyle option to impressionable teens!
Sorry but what this man/woman has done to his son. is just wrong if my dad told me he was going to do what he is doing i could not look this man/woman in the eye. you can see he does not love his son at all. we may even read soon that his son commets suicide in the paper. his son won’t be able to even go to school now the kids will eat him alive on this matter. just feel for the kid.
The dude should have thought about all of this before he ever decided to date a woman, then ask her to marry him, then move into becoming a Father.
If society accpeted gays and lesbians for who they are then maybe Stanton would not have been put in this situation. It’s society’s demands that made him marry a woman and have a child. All of you bigots and homophobes keep people like him in the closet which lead them to live a life of lies which usually end in some tragic stream of events becasue they are so screwed up mentally. Live and let live and perhaps we wouldn’t have families in this situation.
No other country in the world would allow this to happend. Sorry, but this is wrong!
Actually most Eurpoean countries would allow this to happen and many of them would pay for the sex change operation through government funded health care systems.
What happens when the next public servant decides they wish to change into an ape?
This is about changing your sex, not about changing into an animal. He’s going from one form of human into another...not from a human to an animal....how ignorant some of you people are....wow.
First Mr or Mrs Stanton write’s
Like many transgendered people, I have privately struggled with this very personal matter all of my life and have kept it secret from my family, friends and co-workers. I hoped I could outrun it when I got married, became a father, and found a job I love. Unfortunately, I was wrong
Then writes
Many transsexuals who make the decision to transition to their proper gender are often forced to quietly leave their job in order to avoid embarrassment and discrimination. However, it is not my nature to run from difficult challenges. I take tremendous pride in being your city manager and a part of our Largo family.
Well i guess it is in your nature to run becuase you just quoted say i got married became a father to outrun the problem you have
There is no point in further argument, because it’s too decisive. But my one point, people who lean to the liberal side of this argument cannot help themselves in attacking the other side as “homophobes”, “Bible Thumpers” etc. That is not the case regardless of your efforts to make it appear that way. The point: He is now a public issue by his own choice. That does not belong in the public sector, and is simply wrong, because it distracts from the real public issues at large. I want my government focused on insurance premiums, skyrocketing property taxes, those are my concerns. Shifting attention to this silly issue is just wrong. Mr. Stanton, please do the right thing and resign, so we can move on and put this issue to rest. Good luck with your new life as a he/she in the private sector. If you truly believe you are right and have a majority following, then run for office, and let the citizens determine how suitable you are for public life.
The dude should have thought about all of this before he ever decided to date a woman, then ask her to marry him, then move into becoming a Father.
If society accpeted gays and lesbians for who they are then maybe Stanton would not have been put in this situation. It’s society’s demands that made him marry a woman and have a child. All of you bigots and homophobes keep people like him in the closet which lead them to live a life of lies which usually end in some tragic stream of events becasue they are so screwed up mentally. Live and let live and perhaps we wouldn’t have families in this situation.
No other country in the world would allow this to happend. Sorry, but this is wrong!
Actually most Eurpoean countries would allow this to happen and many of them would pay for the sex change operation through government funded health care systems.
What happens when the next public servant decides they wish to change into an ape?
This is about changing your sex, not about changing into an animal. He’s going from one form of human into another...not from a human to an animal....how ignorant some of you people are....wow.
I could agree with most of what you said, but not the “It’s society’s demands that made him marry a woman and have a child.” Huh? Society didn’t “make” him do that. Unless of course one subscribes to the idea that homosexual people “hide” their orientation by getting married.
There is no point in further argument, because it’s too decisive. But my one point, people who lean to the liberal side of this argument cannot help themselves in attacking the other side as “homophobes”, “Bible Thumpers” etc. That is not the case regardless of your efforts to make it appear that way. The point: He is now a public issue by his own choice. That does not belong in the public sector, and is simply wrong, because it distracts from the real public issues at large. I want my government focused on insurance premiums, skyrocketing property taxes, those are my concerns. Shifting attention to this silly issue is just wrong. Mr. Stanton, please do the right thing and resign, so we can move on and put this issue to rest. Good luck with your new life as a he/she in the private sector. If you truly believe you are right and have a majority following, then run for office, and let the citizens determine how suitable you are for public life.
Who says that it “does not belong in the public sector, and is simply wrong, because it distracts from the real public issues at large”? Says who? The government will still be focused on “your concerns”. This will pass quickly. What do you mean “do the right thing and resign” to “put this issue to rest”? Again, I haven’t heard the case made as to why this belongs in the private vs. public sector.
get him out of office..........should i tell my child “its ok to be president, dream big, and one day it will happen, oh and dont forget God made a mistake and made you a girl, so lets get you changed while you are in public office to make a laughing stock of our country!!!!” people will be fired for laughing at this idiot the first time he comes to work in a dress????? i would be first in line....... our tax money is paying for his health insurance and what not.......go figure?????? this country is going to pot becuase of all of this sexual revelution...gay and lesbian rights and now this........dont force this on me and my family........this is such a news story becuase its a freak show......
Unless any one of you can show me the memo from God that made you judge of human race then you have no right to judge this man. I am sure it was hard enough for him to have to deal with this PRIVATE matter in a public forum. And all of you do gooders who say you feel bad and sorry for his child and wife..... how do you think they are going to feel if they read the crap you are all saying about their father/husband. I mean, I am sure they still love him and have feelings. Oh and one more thing, If his decision does not affect your personal every day life and if you are not goig to lose night after night of sleep over this and if it is not going to kill you in the end, then you have no reason to even give a damn.
Bottom line is that the position of City Manager needs to be filled by a person that is of stable and sound judgement, 24-7. Sexual preference aside, anyone who has inner turmoil great enough to warrant a major life altering makeover like a gender reassignment cannot possibly be 100% on-the-job for the City of Largo...or any burg.
Ok… lets go with this...... what kind of job has he done for the city of Largo say up until the last week?
It is sad that we live in a society like this. Why cant we worry about getting the laws changed on pedophiles and arresting the rapist of the woman at Gasparilla Where is the uproar over these two issues? Instead we are calling for the head of a human being that wants to wear a dress. How sad is that?
Unless any one of you can show me the memo from God that made you judge of human race then you have no right to judge this man. I am sure it was hard enough for him to have to deal with this PRIVATE matter in a public forum. And all of you do gooders who say you feel bad and sorry for his child and wife..... how do you think they are going to feel if they read the crap you are all saying about their father/husband. I mean, I am sure they still love him and have feelings. Oh and one more thing, If his decision does not affect your personal every day life and if you are not goig to lose night after night of sleep over this and if it is not going to kill you in the end, then you have no reason to even give a damn.
For one think i am sure God does not approve of this. And from what he is saying he no longer wants to be a father/husband. Look like he careless about them or he would of waited till his son was adult and not a 13 year old kid in middle school. that going to be the joke of the town now by kids.
Unless any one of you can show me the memo from God that made you judge of human race then you have no right to judge this man. I am sure it was hard enough for him to have to deal with this PRIVATE matter in a public forum. And all of you do gooders who say you feel bad and sorry for his child and wife..... how do you think they are going to feel if they read the crap you are all saying about their father/husband. I mean, I am sure they still love him and have feelings. Oh and one more thing, If his decision does not affect your personal every day life and if you are not goig to lose night after night of sleep over this and if it is not going to kill you in the end, then you have no reason to even give a damn.
For one think i am sure God does not approve of this. And from what he is saying he no longer wants to be a father/husband. Look like he careless about them or he would of waited till his son was adult and not a 13 year old kid in middle school. that going to be the joke of the town now by kids.
OK I am going out on a limb here… We are all made in Gods image. Hmmmmmm… And I doubt God loves him any less. And from what I understand.. he was outed… he came out because he didnt have a choice.
And as far as his kid being the joke of the town. If kids are raised to treat others with respect then I guess we wont have any teasing now will we. If kids tease him the maybe their parents should get them under control. Unless anyone approves of their children being closed minded bullies that is
You are correct, innosed. He did not want people to find out this way. The story was leaked to the press. Does God “not approve of this”? I won’t presume to speak for the Almighty but looking at His Word, the Bible, He seems to be silent on this particular issue. It’s not homosexuality. Is it immoral? In what way?
You are correct, innosed. He did not want people to find out this way. The story was leaked to the press. Does God “not approve of this”? I won’t presume to speak for the Almighty but looking at His Word, the Bible, He seems to be silent on this particular issue. It’s not homosexuality. Is it immoral? In what way?
Thank God....... I was starting to feel alone in here...LOL
