They Yell Speak Up

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“I am not the 99 percent,” said Rose Marie Belforti, the town clerk of Ledyard, New York, “of town clerks that will respect both the law and basic human rights.”

“And,” she added, “bite me.”

Aw, poor oppressed people who choose to resign rather than just do their jobs. Boo fucking hoo.

“Before you know it, we have a whole different set of rules.” This just makes me so mad. Religious freedom? Everyone is given the right to believe what they feel is right and practice their religion, but religion isn’t brought into the work place with a job like this.  If you serve the people, you serve the people.  That’s the job. I don’t understand how anybody can say that she’s being victimized. Telling someone who’s homophobic that they still have to enforce a law of equality isn’t unfair. It doesn’t go against religious freedom. 

And why does this video open with talking about family and strong values?  Why is it that the whole video is focused on traditionalism, farm life and family life? Many of the same-sex couples in New York who now have the right to get married might also want to start families, and everyone has a set of values they feel strongly about.  She’s talking about the happy opportunity she had to marry someone she loved and raise a family, but she’s not comfortable letting someone else have that opportunity because of the gender of the person they fall in love with.  She’s not comfortable doing her job because she doesn’t feel comfortable giving someonethat opportunity. How does that make sense?

If you’re not doing your job, you can’t keep your job.  It’s that simple.  If you’re the oppressor, it doesn’t make sense to say that the system is somehow oppressing you.  I value religious freedom, I think it’s incredibly important. I also value equality and laws that expand freedom.

What I don’t value is oppressors acting like they’re being oppressed.

(Source: jasencomstock)