Just last month a police department in the U.S. fired one of their female officers because she posed in Playboy Magazine. I applauded the police departments’ decision. There simply has to be a standard that has to be met in order to maintain any sense of decency and respect for your position, for what it stands for, and also for what your employer stands for. What you say or do, or don’t do, reflects on who you are as a person inside and out, as well the company, business or city that you represent.
Some people want to do whatever they please and scream that it’s their “right”. Then expect that it not affect their public persona or their jobs. And are then upset that there are consequences when they cross moral or legal boundaries!
Come on, are people really that ignorant??
Someone said in one of the posts that the Bible does not say “outright” that it’s a sin to be gay/lesbian. My comeback to that is, it doesn’t say outright that it ISN"T a sin either.
Bible or no bible, where do you draw the line in morality? Just when are certain people going to say, enough is enough? If ever!
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I don’t think you meant to leave this out of your post MICHAELAJV, but perhaps you overlooked the part that mentioned she was wearing parts of her uniform for the shoot, which is what really pissed them off and was the grounds for here termination.
I think he should leave his post Because heis no longer steven who hired susan that no one knowes and did apply for the job
If we check his fingerprints, we discover that he’s still the same human being, the same person. Why should he voluntarily give up his source of income? What has he done wrong? What law has he broken? Your post makes no sense, if you stop and think about it.
This is funny.. you guys are enraged because a few of us here have family oriented morals.
Some of you are making assumptions that I am Christian because I refer to the bible.. Sorry I didn’t mean to elude to that.. But I still know and understand the bible and what it teaches, and you guys can try to spin your ideas all day long but we both know who’s wrong here.. If you’re so correct, why don’t go to a church service and try to convince the audience of your ideas.. And if you’re going to quote the bible, why not quote the 10 commandments or some good ole stories like Sodom and Gomorrah. Get real!! (call your friend or family member back and get some more locations of verses)
And sure Mother Nature throws a few curve balls sometimes.. and those getting the curve balls deserve respect.. But most people learn their “afflictions” from society. Turning to homosexuality is a social dilemma, except in extremely rare cases.
This is a free Country and I can dislike gay lifestyles as much as gay people have the right to be gay. But being in a free Country doesn’t make it moral.
Ohh and just because something is on a website doesn’t make it true or factual. Information on a website is only as good as the source.
And if gays make up only 10%, then why in the heck do I have to hear about them all the time as if they make up 90%??
From what I’ve read here, it seems the people with the so-called “family oriented values” are the ones who are most “enraged”. I don’t think anyone is being asked to “like” the gay lifestyle, or transgendered people. All that’s being asked for is tolerance; if this person chooses to do this, then how does that affect you in any way? You will still go on living your life, right? If a majority of voters decide that this makes Stanton somehow unfit for his job, they will vote him out of office in short order.
Oh, “if gays make up only 10%, then why in the heck do you have to hear about them all the time as if they make up 90%??” Because you’re just imagining it, that’s why (unless you have some evidence to back up your statement). This issue reminds me of the old expression “making a mountain out of a molehill”.
Liberals say they want tolerance, but what you really want is embracement. Embracing of whatever sick acts and thoughts you can figure out and force on people who actually want societal restraints. I’m sure polygamy or marrying one’s pets will be next. Looks like America is headed right down the crapper like Canada.
How did “liberals” enter into the discussion? The Largo City Manager could probably care less whether you “embrace” what he’s doing or not. He would rather, I think, say he wants us to look past what he’s doing and have people get on with their lives. I believe that’s called tolerance, not embracing it. I certainly don’t think what he’s doing is “normal”; it is decidedly not. So, in that sense, I don’t “embrace” it. I do think we should let me be, and not talk about red herrings such as “marrying one’s pets”.
I wasn’t looking for a definition. My post asks how this situation is not moral according to you . Please read my post a little slower next time.
I don’t see morals as being relevant.
I read your post just fine the first time! And my repsonse to you was quite accurate.
Morals is something that you don’t give much thought to apparently, if I have to explain and s-p-e-l-l
o-u-t to you as to how morals applies to this issue.
As I said in one of my earlier posts, it’s the condoning/promoting of the transgender, gay, lesbian lifestyle that I strongly object to. No, it isn’t a ‘normal’ lifestyle, no matter how much you rant and rave that it is. It ISN’T the right way, or the preferred way to live your life. God created Man and Woman for a reason. Do I have to explain THAT to you as well?
And believe it or not YOU are in the minority in your thinking. Thank God! And the majority has become sick and tired of bowing down to you and those like you.
Guess what? WE’RE, the moral MAJORITY. And we will be the ones ranting and raving from now on. So get used to it.
In other words you couldn’t answer the question so you used a strawman argument, changing your answer to something that was never asked. And now you resort to doing your best to trash me as well.
Both tactics are what people do when they have no answer. I don’t recall ever mentioning “normal” to you either.
Can you try actually answering the question or is this the best you can do? Why should the planet live by your morals when you don’t know what they are? Why do you have no respect for the morals of others? Are you afraid yours won’t stand up under scrutiny? Is that why you can’t put them into words?
How did “liberals” enter into the discussion? The Largo City Manager could probably care less whether you “embrace” what he’s doing or not. He would rather, I think, say he wants us to look past what he’s doing and have people get on with their lives. I believe that’s called tolerance, not embracing it. I certainly don’t think what he’s doing is “normal”; it is decidedly not. So, in that sense, I don’t “embrace” it. I do think we should let me be, and not talk about red herrings such as “marrying one’s pets”.
I call bull crap. I’m in higher education and a few years ago, it was tolerate the gay lifestyle. Ignore it. Now it’s celebrate the gay lifestyle, let’s have gay days, gay clubs, and teach how it’s equal to heterosexual relationships. NOT EVEN CLOSE. If Largo wo/man wanted to be ignored he wouldn’t be forcing employees to go to indoctrination...uh...sensitivity training. I will never embrace freakishness.
You say that what Mr/s Stanton is doing is wrong. Let me put this question to you. You have a son/daughter whom you have raised to adult hood. You teach them right from wrong. You teach the boy he is to wear Jeans and play with trucks. You teach the girl to wear dresses and play with dolls. Ok well done! You catch your son playing with a doll, or putting on his mothers panties, or hose. Innocent enough, after all he is a child. Same goes for the girl. She puts on her fathers shoes, a pair of his briefs or boxers. Still innocent enough. But you tell them that isn’t proper behavior. Except for in todays society it is perfectly ok for girls/women to wear anything they want. A mans shirt, jeans, even a tie. No one says a thing about it. Some consider it sexy. Now take the boy, he puts on a skirt, or blouse, or panties. Now he is a freak? That is what society says. Now that same son or daughter has something that he or she has hid from you. One day he or she, because you are a reasonable parent comes to you and says, don’t be mad at me, but I am gay/lesbian/transgendered. Are you gonna tell your own child you don’t love him or her because of that. Are you not gonna try to come to terms and educate yourself as to why your child is this way. I should hope not. Just because we are the way we are doesn’t mean we are less capable to do a job. Our education does not change. If we change our name, it is just a name. The person is still the same. It is what is inside us that counts. The external appearance for a transgendered person is to balance his/her inner feelings about who he or she is. We do not decide who we are sexually. That is something we are born with. All that is asked is tolerance. We don’t expect people to embrace us, we just want to be able to be who we are, without persecution, or fear.
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Amazing, At first I was so fired up to respond to the mentally blind and then I decided to read a couple posts closely. So now I apologize, if it wasn’t so obvious that your views were being spewed from a “handicap” mind then it has now become ever so apparent. For those of you that have now identified yourselves as the trash of society by showing your hate and prejudice I beg you to keep posting. So many of you have stated how embarrassed the son is but yet it looks like the local elementary school came together after drinking too much soda and posted this rubbish. Really, its just awesome, your collective IQ is somewhere around 12. Better yet I love the fact that I will never be challenged for anything from any of you sociopaths, no way can you prosper in life like I or the other humans on this earth that have intellect and compassion for others. Its almost unfair but I’ll take it. Just keep the comedy coming. In the meantime I just pray that this person continues to be strong in the face of all the unnecessary hate. I hope he runs for governor next so that I can see some of you bring out your best. It is also refreshing to see some of the other postings that show that some of us are capable of caring about another person and see the obvious defects in those of you that worry so much about something you shouldn’t.
I’VE ATTACHED JUST A COUPLE GOODIES FROM THE FIRST COUPLE PAGES
“What is this guy wanted to marry a goat, then have a sex change operation to be a Goat, or a Dog, or a Cow “ NOOKIE
“No other country in the world would allow this to happend.”
“This man’s decission is not about what “He feels is best for him....” “She is devistated” CITIZEN MAN
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. DR A GON
“this country is going to pot becuase of all of this sexual revelution” LARRY
“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.” INNOSED
“I cant believe what i read in todays news. I feel for the wife who may be guessing herself as a women and for there son who will be ridicule at school and beyond his entire life, wow.” SOUTHTAMPA
I have to agree completely with apollo33572. I am just very glad that those who have posted hate and ignorance on here are more than likely the same people who are too lazy to vote. Leave the thinking to us. You need to spend your time going back to school and brushing up on your grammar rather than condemning a person for the way they were born. Do you also condemn blacks for their skin color? With what I’ve read you probably do. Do you truly believe anyone would choose to be born gay and have to struggle against the prejudice and persecution of society? And before you say they are not born gay then that would mean they consciously choose to be gay and come up against ignorance and hatred. That is absolutely absurd, much like the posts I’m reading on here. Truly, go back to school and concentrate on your education rather than someone else’s business that has nothing to do with the way they can do their job.
