If you can’t do the job in good conscience, quit

http://www.reviewjournal.com ^ | 10/10/2014 | By STEVE SEBELIUS

[redreno]

If pang of conscience prevents a person from performing his or her job in government, or upholding an oath to administer justice under the Constitution, that person needs to resign.

As the legal dust settles and Nevada prepares to extend marriage equality to all its citizens, there’s one small, sad footnote to be written: The signature on the legal document enjoining the state from enforcing its 12-year-old ban on gay marriage will not be that of U.S. District Judge Robert C. Jones.

Jones, formerly the chief federal judge in Nevada, oversaw Lambda Legal’s lawsuit against the state, which contended that Nevada’s voter-approved constitutional amendment banning gay marriage was unconstitutional. Jones presided over the trial, heard and evaluated each piece of evidence, weighed the arguments and rendered a ruling upholding the state’s gay marriage ban.

[FlingWingFlyer]

If pang of conscience prevents a person from performing his or her job in government, or upholding an oath to administer justice under the Constitution, that person needs to resign.

Americans have been saying this about Barack Hussein Obama for years.

[rktman]

Sadly, there seems to be NO conscience in dysfunctional city. aka D.C.

Hows things with you redreno? Life is good in Golden Valley. As expected, the rgj has endorsed kuzanek for sheriff I see.

[Mack the knife]

If pang of conscience prevents a person from performing his or her job in government, or upholding an oath to administer justice under the Constitution, that person needs to resign.

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In the 1960s, at the height of the cold war, I was working in an aerospace company that was evaluating the effectiveness of the US ICBM force.

One of my friends was asked to prepare a graph showing the millions of deaths that would result from the launch of
an increasing number of ICBMs with their H-bomb warheads. The graph was labeled “megadeaths vs megatons”.

My friend stopped in the middle of drawing the graph ... shuddered as she realized what it really meant ... cleaned out her desk, wrote a letter of resignation, and left for good.

I didn’t join her because I would have been drafted and sent to Vietnam ... but I understood.