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Somehow you made this about persecution of right wing nut jobs who didn't go to college.
Some really disturbed people around here. I'm sure she is a "liberal/millenial" which of course elicits more unhinged bile from the talk radio audience.
"Somehow you made this about persecution of right wing nut jobs who didn't go to college."
"Some really disturbed people around here"
Based on your 1st, sentence I agree. Do you have mirror handy?
I wonder if teachers are fired for shacking up, sex outside of marriage, adultery, divorce, speeding, dui, etc. Are homosexual teachers fired? Having a morals clause in this highly immoral culture is beyond crazy.
The left even talking about morals is hilarious on its own!
It is BS this woman was fired. She did not release the photo, it was meant to be private and was illegally made public by someone else. As far as being fired over a morality issue, what exactly is immoral about one adult sending another adult a private photo?
Many people like to comment that people just need to learn the lesson and not take these photos in the first place. I think it has become clear that the train has left the station, and this is just a normal part of romantic relationships in the modern era. Society needs to adjust and accept this. The person that should be punished is the one who released the photo.
OK I posted before that I didn't think she'd done anything WRONG in taking the photo or sharing it with her boyfriend. I stand by that. I don't buy into the Biblical morality that some here have tried to use in their arguments, and I'm speaking from a place of my own ethical beliefs, and what I would consider reasonable from a legal standpoint.
However.
Here in Colorado it's legal to smoke pot in your off time if you like, yet some employers still drug test. And do not hire, or terminate employment, with regards to those who use the stuff no matter when they've used it. And I do believe those employers have that right. People have been fired for exercising their free speech in a manner that a company finds "unbecoming" to their image, if the person can be linked to the company. They also have that right. Why? Because it's in the contract you signed when you got hired, or when you applied for the job, what rules that employer would expect of you.
So with regard to whether her firing deserves pushback, or whether I think she has a valid case to fight here... Well, I haven't seen her employment contract. Have any of you? If she explicitly violated the terms of it, then they can fire her. It's not like she's going to jail or something. But then it becomes a matter of contract law, and if she doesn't think that the contract covers this situation, well...hire a lawyer and go to court, that's why we have lawyers and courts that handle such things.
There was a time when we as a society understood that it was inappropriate for a man to hold a woman's breast in a public place, in front of a child no less. And there was a time when we as a society understood that it was inappropriate to allow such a thing to be photographed, and to purposely disseminate such a photograph. And I am convinced that we were a better place when these things were understood. If that makes me a prude, then so be it.
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