Monday, September 07, 2015

Should Kim Davis be fired?

If you are hired to put cement bags on a truck and can't do it, then you are replaced/fired.  But what if you are hired to load 25 pound bags of sawdust and then they change your job to loading cement bags?  Then what?

But a better example might be when Rosa Parks refused to sit in the back of the bus and the law was changed saying she didn't have to sit in the back.  What if the bus driver after the law was changed refused to drive the bus if African Americans were allowed to sit in the front half of the bus?  Should the bus driver be fired?

Well, should Kim Davis be fired because she is not doing her job? As I understand she is the county clerk and will not issue wedding license (or let anyone working for her) issue wedding licenses to gay people wanting to be married. It's interesting while she is jail from contempt of court from not issuing licenses to gays, her office is issuing licenses to gays. 

Could a compromise be reached where the judge orders the people working for Davis to continue issuing licenses to gays even when Davis gets out of jail? In short, could someone  take the veto power away from Davis? She could then follow her religion and gays could get their licensees.  Or do both sides just want to make a point and Davis is simply a pawn in the battle?  Usually there is a compassionate solution where each side can follow their conscience -- but, perhaps "being right" is more important than finding a compromise.

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