Here’s the thing. If I’m getting paid by the Department, I go where they tell me to go. I’ve had to attend some less-than-optimal functions with unsavory characters and listen to tripe, but it’s part of the job. I’m sure both sides have valid points in this discussion, though.
I fully agree with you.
BUT - if the officer was Muslim and asked to go to a Christian service, he’d be likely to have all kinds of lawsuits and support, to the effect that he was being asked to do things that might offend him, or that the PD was not “sensitive” enough or along that line... JMHO
Have you ever been told to break the law? Commit a crime? Engage in some illegal activity?
Did you do it? I don’t know you you have any spiritual or moral convictions, but I’ll assume you do. There are lines that you won’t cross, right?
This police officer was told to cross a line. He apparently is a man of conservative principles and he stood firm in his convictions.
God bless him.
The Muslim event was characterized as the mosque’s Law Enforcement Appreciation Day, but it allegedly had nothing to do with appreciation of police officers. According to Fields’ attorneys, Law Enforcement Appreciation Day involved the captain and his officers taking a tour of the mosque, attending a meeting with the mosque’s leadership, attending the Muslim’s weekly prayer service, acquainting the police officers with Islamic religious reading material, and lectures on Islamic beliefs.
Which is exactly what bothers so many of us about certain elements of modern policing.
Cops like the subject of this article have internal fortitude and solid moral grounding. Cops like you - not so much.