Half-penny, two-penny. Ashes to dust.
Almighty Dollar says, “In God We Trust”…
–Styx, “Half-Penny, Two-Penny”
An update on San Diego’s taxpayer-funded bigot-enablers:
At least 14 employees in the San Diego County Clerk’s Office raised religious objections to performing gay wedding ceremonies but were told by their boss they couldn’t pick and choose between marriage applicants.
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“It would unfairly burden other employees and would directly compromise the services we provide to the public … you should realize that it will be impossible for you to remain in your current assignment,” employees were told in the June 5 e-mail.Given that answer, Smith said, several employees withdrew their objections, but a few chose reassignment.
I will, in proper Voltairean fashion, salute the few non-hypocrites who stuck to their bigotry and agreed to explore reassignment. To those miserable cretins who put their paycheck before their one-true-god: You’re pathetic. Absolutely pathetic. Oh, and God is watching you.
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To review: On the topic of “religious accommodation,” no accommodation whatsoever is warranted in this circumstance. Allowing someone to refuse, outright and altogether, to perform their (taxpayer-funded) function is not an “accommodation.”
We are not talking here about allowing a Sikh to wear a ceremonial kirpan, providing Muslims adequate break time for their prayer rituals, or ensuring that there are kosher items in the cafeteria. Since when is allowing an employee to “just say no,” absolutely and unconditionally, an “accommodation”? It is beyond preposterous.
And one hardly need ask whether adherents to a religion that objected to interracial marriage or post-divorce remarriage would be similarly “accommodated.” Of course they wouldn’t. Only anti-gay bigotry ever seems to warrant such “accommodation.”
The post facto rationalization that “everything worked itself in the end” is utterly irrelevant. The logistical challenge should never have been entertained in the first place. Anyone fundamentally unwilling to perform the duties of a government job should be fundamentally disqualified from having it. If being a “Christian” is so important to you, then go work as a church janitor; leave taxpayers out of it.
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[T]he anti-gay Family Research Council … in the promotional materials for their annual Values Voters Summit… is running a promo page of pics featuring 24 named speakers. Only problem? Only 10 of these names — ones that mostly make up the lesser-known, more conservative contingent — have actually confirmed that they’ll be in attendance[.]
Especially mockworthy is the inclusion of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton as “invited” speakers. But if some gullible “values voter” doesn’t read the fine print of your deceptive ad and pays you to see speakers whom you know aren’t going to accept your “invitation,” then it’s no big deal, right? That’s not a sin, is it? After all, “Thou Shalt Not Dupe Thy Members” isn’t (exactly) a Commandment — and certainly not on a par with the truly important ones.
(And we shall of course leave for another day the question of what it says about your psychological profile when you pretend that you, and only you, are a “values voter.”)
