Posted on 07/18/2015 7:09:19 PM PDT by markomalley
A high-ranking California police lieutenant has been placed on leave after he sent a newspaper a letter condemning the legalization of same-sex marriage nationwide. He signed the letter with his rank and employer — and the newspaper editor says that's how he wanted it to appear in print.
In a letter to the editor of the Stockton Record, Stockton Police Lt. Toby Will called legal same-sex marriage "blatant debauchery." The letter, titled "Marriage ruling shuns God," was posted online on July 7.
The Stockton Record then printed an article headlined "Cop's letter sparks concern." It quoted police spokesman Joe Silva as saying Will "does not speak for the Police Department, and regarding his use of his police position, it is under administrative review."
Silva told NBC News that Will was officially placed on paid administrative leave on July 13, pending the outcome of the review.
The following day, the editor of the paper, Mike Klocke, wrote a lengthy response to questions the paper had received about printing the letter. He said Will was adamant that he wanted his official title to be printed if the letter was published.
Police chief Eric Jones told NBC affiliate KCRA that part of the investigation into Will's actions while he is on leave will focus on whether the lieutenant purposefully misrepresented the view of the entire department "because of the indication that it may have purported that it was the statement of the police department."
Jones visited the San Joaquin Pride Center with other Stockton officers on Thursday night to assure attendees that the Stockton Police Department is accepting. "We are responsible for treating everyone fairly and equitably — and that's what tonight was all about," Jones said at the meeting.
Renee Hall, president of the board for Pride Center, said she was "shocked" when she first read the letter. "I feel like if something like that gets out in the public from a pretty prominent person, then it gives folks the ability to act on those things," she told KCRA.
The Stockton Record printed several letters from readers responding to Will. Some readers supported his opinion, but disagreed with his choice to make them known in a public forum, while others supported his view and his choice to speak out. Others wholeheartedly disagreed with Will.
"I resent this man with real authority insinuating his law enforcement position into this discussion," one reader wrote.
Had he just sent in a letter condemning any conservative position and signing with his rank and title there would have been no problem.
However, the homosexuals can openly criticize the Bible, Christians, Christian living and in the harshest terms directly defame the Father, Son and Holy Spirit and not a finger is lifted to punish them. How long, Lord...how long?
They contacted him before they published the letter, and the article says he asked that his title be included. Fine. But he still did nothing wrong, and they have no grounds for any further punishment.
I suspect he was ready to retire. It has crossed my mind that this would be a great way to retire and at the same time make a point. A sort of forced retirement by opinion option! It is a sick world and the fascists are in control. Problem is that the fascists fag supporters will probably try to keep him from collecting his pension. This crap is not going to end well for any of us.
Maybe for people who want to read that into it. He never mentions his employer in the letter. He only asked to have his job title included under his name.
I goy your back Lt.-here’s what I wrote in my local throw that got printed yesterday:
The story covering the LGBT “marriage” by the false “church” Bethel United Church of Christ reveals what Vladimir Lenin described as “useful idiots” back in the 1930’s.This not of Christ “church” is actually a handmaiden of communism. A 1958 book written by a retired FBI agent, The Naked Communist lists the very explicit goals for tearing down the United States from within. Goal #26 states: “Present Homo-sexuality, degeneracy, and promiscuity as “normal, natural,healthy”. Obviously, this “church” is more acquainted with communism than Christ and the Bible. True churches will find themselves eliminated under communist authoritarian regimes as true Christians will be persecuted. Currently, the SCOTUS ruling will be the watershed moment for true Christian churches who may be litigated right out of existence or denied tax-free status. A Christian couple in Oregon has been fined $135,000 for refusing to bake a cake for a lesbian couple for their wedding who were “offended”. In Kentucky, a County clerk has refused to perform a gay marriage and is willing to go to jail for his beliefs. These are the true Christians. As Reverend Franklin Graham stated after the ruling: “America’s not going to like what’s at the end of this rainbow”
It is bowing down to the Religion of Ba’al. Their Rites of worship is sodomizing children and others on their altars.....big orgies.
They are forcing Christian Ethics out-—the basis of our “Justice (virtue) System and forcing in irrational ethics of satanism, paganism, Marxism, Afghani harem boys ethics-—you name it. It is all irrational and throws out Natural Law Theory-—basis of Science and Reason and our Constitution——”Laws of Nature and nature’s God”.
They literally threw OUT the Constitution and Freedom with this irrational, vile ruling.
There's no reason to identify your employer at all unless your intent is to link your opinion to your job and your employer.
Every place I've ever worked had a clear provision in their employee policies and procedures manual that explicitly prohibited this kind of thing.
If you can find specific examples of this, then you’d have a good point. Otherwise, your post is nothing but pure speculation.
So you think his first amendment rights are only part time? I suppose you would fire him for wearing a praise Jesus shirt, and trip over yourself giving muslims prayer time.
The lesbo uses ‘folks’ in her response.
As we have seen, from our _Resident, that, ‘folks’ is code word for straight, usually white, Constitutional Conservatives.
Am I wrong? Nope. I didn’t think so!
As a member of the local citizenry, (The CA Central Valley) I marvel how no one, except the perverts and the indolent can exercise their First Amendment rights, we're talking not questionable acts but strictly what may be regarded as "thought crimes"
The pervert, pro-sodomy and the indolent parasites can do and say "no wrong..."
I can go on at length at the astonishing sociopathy of illegal Mexicans and the other protected class, but this is not the proper thread for that...
The First Amendment address employer-employee matters like this. I can assure you that the employees who work for me do not take their First Amendment rights with them when they walk through the door of the place where they work.
We must be accurate, in this pushback, for any hope of meaningful success. The accurate quote is...
BURN THE *ITCH DOWN!!!
shouted hysterically at least a half-dozen times...
We had our policy and procedures manuals for NY State Corrections. As Peace Officers, we were required to comport ourselves so as not to bring a bad light on the Department. We weren’t restricted from identifying ourselves as officers, but were restricted from claiming we were speaking for the Department as a whole.
I remember, once upon a time, when there was an absolute and unconditional right by everyone to be protected by arbitrary and capricious actions, and abuse of power by elected officials.
That was and continue to be protected by the First Amendment.
aha the word bitch.....a favorite among many homosexicals
that could have been construed to mean...setting an LGBTZYZ person on fire...
Bullshit!
I would financially support his suit against the Gaystapo, indolent, and politically correct activists in ANY elected or appointed position of power.
"Nor smart" does not rise to the level of justifying abuse of his personal Constitutional rights; nor to the demand that as a condition of employment, he must surrender those rights.
The Bill of Rights is absolute, not subject to Amendment or interpretation.
I'm surprised your manuals would even say something like this. The phrase "bring a bad light on the Department" is so vague that it can be bent or abused so much that it is basically meaningless.
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