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The Good Guys Win One

 

 

Losing your livelihood for the beliefs that you hold makes a mockery of any pretensions of freedom.  The only freedom existing in such circumstances is the freedom to agree with those holding political power.

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Don L
Don L
Saturday, June 12, AD 2021 5:51am

Help this non-lawyer out Don. In my unlearned mind, I see “just getting back to neutral” as a questionable victory, until and unless those in power who openly and willfully abuse individuals exercising their constitutional rights, are made to personally suffer a major loss. Until that occurs, there is little reason for them to not abuse their power. They generally use public funds to fight their abuse battles and thus have little personal risk, outside of the embarrassment of a court loss. (they can then blame their lawyers?) My sense of true justice requires that those who abuse the power of government should suffer far more–if for no other reason than to prevent further misuse..

Art Deco
Art Deco
Saturday, June 12, AD 2021 6:29am

He was a public employee terminated for exercising his civil rights. The responsible officials – including the school board if they were in on it – should face civil liability as persons. We have in New York a misdemeanor offense called ‘official misconduct’ – malfeasance, misfeasance, nonfeasance in office. In a legal order which approximates justice, the person who signed his letter of dismissal would face prosecution, and any superordinate who insisted that person sign the letter would face a misdemeanor extortion charge. In the realm of education, the abuses won’t stop until the abusers start losing their houses and spending spells in jail. (Ralph Nader used to say that about business executives as well, and he was right in the abstract). You ever notice how it’s impossible to get rid of a public employee unless they fall afoul of the Anointed, and then suddenly they can be terminated with no notice? Our public life is drowning in humbug.

quasirenaissanceman
Saturday, June 12, AD 2021 9:48am

And, predictably, Loudoun County Public Schools is filing an appeal. The part that really confuses me is that he was speaking at a public forum to discuss adopting the policy. As the judge who reinstated him noted, the school district actually invited public commentary in this case. It does seem, in the words of the judge, especially vindictive to suspend him from duties and prohibit him from accessing school grounds for stating his sincerely held beliefs.
I just hope the Virginia Supreme Court sees it the same way

CAM
CAM
Saturday, June 12, AD 2021 9:49am

Writing as a layperson and a citizen of the Commonwealth of Virginia, the Assembly Democrat majority is eroding our rights. We were pro life on the law books. Now we are not pro choice but pro abort. It’s a good bet that euthanasia and infanticide are practiced. maybe not so much with drugs but by neglect.
Right to work will be a thing of the past. Want to hire a care giver for granny, a tutor, a babysitter, music teacher, a neighbor kid to mow your lawn if it can be prooved that one of the socalled genders or a minority, ethnic is dicriminated against in hiring someone who come into your home for a service, then you will be in court.
I won’t even get into the gun laws and the rewriting of history even if in some cases the offending statue or obelisk with the names of the dead was paid for with private funds or on private property visible from the road.
We saw how COVID was used as a screen to curtail our rights of assembly and freedom to worship our Creator. Agents were sent to churches to monitor spacing, singing, etc. Then it got worse. The churches were closed. Our two bishops didn’t protest and didn’t encourage open air services. In fact the one bishop prohibitted outdoor Mass until there was an altar consecrated and with relics. Most parishes dont have a such an altar on wheels. So we went outdoor with Communion services. Never mind that in previous years the Masses for our 125th anniversary, and other events were concelebrated on cafeteria style tables under a tent. Some parishes were reduced to having clandestine Masses like the early Christians. For the most part churches were locked except the Cathedral. Now the diocese is looking for money.
What is turning the tide is parents and teachers objecting to the is virtual teaching, teaching of critical race theory and forced use of gender pronouns, etc It’s grass roots and well publicized. Don’t mess with our kids! Theres is hope and there is a lot of prayer. We are a God fearing state, but our Assembly majority is quided by the Dark Forces.

Anzlyne
Anzlyne
Saturday, June 12, AD 2021 2:03pm

Yes i take Don L’s point and i don’t think the idea of waiting for the ballot box is enough of a response today. We are taken advantage of at the un monitored ballot boxes
And the Dark Forces see they have no risk in trying their schemes and some percent of the time they ein … continue to expand their influence and injustice- successfully intimidating people with no consequences or cost
Can we think of a way to have a more proactive response?

J. Ronald Parrish
Saturday, June 12, AD 2021 7:00pm

Anzlyne: The tactic used by Martin Luther King is worthy of consideration. Without its successful employment, much progress in the civil rights movement would have been long delayed. But remember, you must have people willing to go to jail to defy unjust laws. Do sufficient numbers of people willing to do so still exist? I do not pretend to know. However, the situation cannot improve after a couple of more brainwashed generations.

Anzlyne
Anzlyne
Sunday, June 13, AD 2021 6:18am

Civil disobedience enacted en masse by the millions of us rigidly truing to stand. What a dream!!
MLKs dream and words and work are steadily being co-opted. Of course so are the Words and Works of Jesus.
God help us to stand, and stand together with each other and with Him.

Anzlyne
Anzlyne
Sunday, June 13, AD 2021 6:21am
Art Deco
Art Deco
Sunday, June 13, AD 2021 7:12am

And, predictably, Loudoun County Public Schools is filing an appeal.

Which tells you the school board is implicated in this crime and may have insisted off the record he be fired.

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