http://news.msn.com/in-depth/small-sc-town-rallies-for-fired-gay-police-chief
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LATTA, S.C. (AP) â€" When openly gay police chief Crystal Moore was fired by a mayor who condemned her lifestyle as "questionable," she expected her two decade career in law enforcement was over.
Then, this conservative, small town rebelled.
The people of Latta, who voted overwhelmingly for a state amendment banning gay marriage eight years ago, turned against the mayor, stripped him of his powers and rehired Moore. They said her dedication to the town mattered more than her sexual orientation.
Residents remembered Moore's civic spirit from as far back as 1989, when Hurricane Hugo tore through Latta. She was a high school student working part time as a police dispatcher, and helped cut downed tree limbs to clean up the debris. This February, when an ice storm crippled the town and left it without power for days, Moore piled her officers in her SUV and checked on as many people as she could.
"That's Crystal. All she does is help people. I don't get why he fired her. Maybe it's the ignorant people who talk the loudest. She was the same great Crystal yesterday as she is today, and she'll be the same person tomorrow," said lifelong Latta resident Dottie Walters.
This is unbelievable that such a conservative town would support a lesbian and want a bigot removed from office. :super: :clap: Solitary
Quote from: Solitary on July 13, 2014, 03:15:05 PM
This is unbelievable that such a conservative town would support a lesbian and want a bigot removed from office. :super: :clap: Solitary
Because they can see her as a person not just as part of an amorphic group wearing a "gay" label.
How about that. gays, conservatives, liberals, and people of different races and religious beliefs can think highly of one another on an individual basis.
Something don't smell right here.
Well, well, well... Doesn't this just fly in the face of the narrative we're constantly being sold to us by the professional dividers who are paid grand salaries as political consultants and who always have their fingers on the pulse of the nation.
Left to our own devices who knows what carnage and permanent damage it might wreck on traditional marriage if the public were allowed to decide who is and isn't our public servants? Can you imagine what might happen if ordinary citizens were permitted such decisions as to not be appointed by our beloved ruling classes?
After all, aren't such decisions best decided by outside for profit corporations as opposed to allowing the citizenry to decide?
Well done to the citizens of Latta for doing the right thing thats what i say.... :clap: :clap: :clap:
Quote from: AllPurposeAtheist on July 14, 2014, 02:29:32 AM
Well, well, well... Doesn't this just fly in the face of the narrative we're constantly being sold to us by the professional dividers who are paid grand salaries as political consultants and who always have their fingers on the pulse of the nation.
Left to our own devices who knows what carnage and permanent damage it might wreck on traditional marriage if the public were allowed to decide who is and isn't our public servants? Can you imagine what might happen if ordinary citizens were permitted such decisions as to not be appointed by our beloved ruling classes?
After all, aren't such decisions best decided by outside for profit corporations as opposed to allowing the citizenry to decide?
From a family member, who's a Conservative Christian, he has no problem with gay people being gay but he finds that the act of marriage is sacred, and since the Bible states homosexuality is a sin, as is many things he recognizes, he feels marriage shouldn't as well be a sin. Which, in his mind, if homosexuals were allowed to marry, it would become sinful.
The logic of a Christian.
-Nam
Quote from: Hydra009 on July 14, 2014, 03:54:48 AM
How so?
Smells of a sort of a reverse Poe, if there is such a thing, as in a fake story of something conservative Christians would NEVER do. I had the same skepticism from a distance, but I guess unless I can find something to the contrary, story is legit.
Quote from: Shol'va on July 14, 2014, 10:22:58 PM
Smells of a sort of a reverse Poe, if there is such a thing, as in a fake story of something conservative Christians would NEVER do. I had the same skepticism from a distance, but I guess unless I can find something to the contrary, story is legit.
I found it at huffpost but it did read exactly like the same article. If it's on Rachel Maddow tonight, then it's most likely legit.
-Nam