Kim Davis Jailed

[Platapus]

Being a professional is not just being paid for something. It is agreeing to abide by a common set of ethics associated with the other professionals in the same field... even if they conflict with a person's personal ethics.

Members of the military have dealt with this for centuries. When I was in the military, I certainly provided support and in some cases actively participated in operations that were in direct conflict with my personal ethics. As a professional, I understood the importance of putting my personal ethics aside in favour of my professional ethics.

If a profession's ethics conflict sufficiently with a person's personal ethics, that person should not voluntarily participate in that profession.

But once you accept "the queens shilling", you are agreeing to abide by that profession's ethics. This is especially true in public service.

The public MUST have confidence that the people in the profession of public service carry out their duties according to law/regulations. We can not have people accepting public money and then deciding whether their personal or public service ethics take precedence.

People need to understand that performing a duty does not imply a personal acceptance or non acceptance of that duty or its effects.

[Torplexed]

Originally Posted by Platapus

Being a professional is not just being paid for something. It is agreeing to abide by a common set of ethics associated with the other professionals in the same field... even if they conflict with a person's personal ethics.

Members of the military have dealt with this for centuries. When I was in the military, I certainly provided support and in some cases actively participated in operations that were in direct conflict with my personal ethics. As a professional, I understood the importance of putting my personal ethics aside in favour of my professional ethics.

If a profession's ethics conflict sufficiently with a person's personal ethics, that person should not voluntarily participate in that profession.

But once you accept "the queens shilling", you are agreeing to abide by that profession's ethics. This is especially true in public service.

The public MUST have confidence that the people in the profession of public service carry out their duties according to law/regulations. We can not have people accepting public money and then deciding whether their personal or public service ethics take precedence.

People need to understand that performing a duty does not imply a personal acceptance or non acceptance of that duty or its effects.

While she there she had an out. It might be reasonable for Davis to decline issuing the licenses, if other deputy clerks in the office were available to do so. That's how pharmacists that don't want to dispense Plan B birth control are accommodated.

But, Davis is being unreasonable insisting that because she oversees the entire office no one in the office should be able to issue the license because that makes her the de facto license issuer. So, apparently even a deputy working under her is an extension of her religious beliefs.

That office must have been a fun, theocratic fief to work in.

[Armistead]

The judge did try to help her out, just to let someone else in her office do it and stay out of it, she would not, she willingly interfered.

I'm amazed at the amount of ignorance displayed by many that support her, their claims of our great nation going to hell, having no understanding of our secular constitution.

[Wolferz]

Originally Posted by Armistead

The judge did try to help her out, just to let someone else in her office do it and stay out of it, she would not, she willingly interfered.

I'm amazed at the amount of ignorance displayed by many that support her, their claims of our great nation going to hell, having no understanding of our secular constitution.

Radical religion.
Reminds me of another uber religious group of goat fornicating knuckleheads who think they have the right to judge how folks live their lives.

/ignore Kim Davis.

[em2nought]

Y'all are missing the point. Four different men have married this woman! Must be the gubernment job makes her a prime sugar momma catch or something?

[razark]

Originally Posted by em2nought

Y'all are missing the point. Four different men have married this woman! Must be the gubernment job makes her a prime sugar momma catch or something?

No, only three.

She married #1, got pregnant with twins by #2, divorced #1, married #3, divorced #3, married #2, divorced #2, and is currently married to #3.
But it's the gays that are destroying the sanctity of marriage.

[Buddahaid]

They must all be blind. Or Kentucky beer goggles are really good.