It's Pat!
I'll pay you to wag your little hoses for me, Sexy!
Posted on 08/13/2007 4:00:37 PM PDT by wagglebee
SAN DIEGO, August 13, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The San Diego Fire Department has dropped its requirement for on-duty firefighters to drive the gay parade routes after firemen complained of sexual harassment this summer. Now only volunteers will drive the route, the San Diego Tribune reports.
Early this August four firefighters were forced by their superior to drive in the parade in the Hillcrest neighborhood of the city on July 21. On August 1 they filed complaints of sexual harassment with the Department of Fair Employment and Housing after receiving sexually explicit taunts and gestures as they drove in the parade. They complained against the fire department that had forced them to be exposed to the harassment by requiring them to participate in the parade.
As a result, the Fire Chief Tracy Jarman and San Diego Firefighters Local 145 revised their policy to ensure that only volunteers will drive in the parade. Going into effect immediately, the Fire Department will offer four hours of overtime pay to anyone who volunteers to drive in the parade. In this way, officials hope that enough firefighters will step forward, ensuring that unwilling drivers will not have to participate.
Fire department spokesperson Maurice Luque was confident that the department will find enough volunteers, saying, "Someone is going to step up and want four hours of overtime."
The four firefighter's lawyer, Charles LiMandri of Michigan's Thomas More Law Center, however, still has reservations about the new policy, questioning whether it actually provides sufficient protection for firefighters' right to freedom of conscience as well as their own personal safety in the parade.
Pointing out the weakness in the new policy, LiMandri stated, "It doesn't say clearly that no one will be ordered to participate." Nevertheless, the San Diego Fire Department has claimed that they are not going to force anyone to participate.
This new policy is a victory for those who fight to defend heterosexual marriage within the city. Especially in recent years, San Diego has relentlessly worked to bring itself up to step with other liberal Californian cities. On July 17, for example, despite the protests of numerous city residents, the city council voted unanimously in favor of proclaiming July official "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Pride Month in the City of San Diego."
The firefighters' victory is not the first time that homosexual supporters and activists have been required to step back. Two years ago it was discovered that a number of sex offenders were volunteering in the Gay Pride Week festivities. San Diego residents were outraged by this discovery, particularly when it was found that a molester, "Marty the Clown", was set to entertain in the San Diego Gay Pride Children's Garden as he had done in past years. Pride organizers were hit with a wave of criticism and complaints until the offenders were taken off the list of volunteer staff (see http://www.10news.com/news/4776599/detail.html).
Read previous LifeSiteNews coverage:
San Diego City Council Gay Pride Month Vote to be Protested by Former Gay Activist
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/jul/07071303.html
Padres Baseball Team Holds Gay Pride and Free Hats for Kids Events on Same Day
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/jul/07070909.html
Court: San Diego Veteran Memorial Cross Must Come Down by August 1
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/jun/06062302.html
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So that's it?
That's all they get?
"We won't do it again, we promise" ????
I'm betting that if it was the other way around, heads would roll, "sensitivity" training would be 24/7 and courts would be full.
But all the straight guys get is "Oopsie!" ???
Hey, if this is important to the citizens of San Diego, then good luck with it. It’s a good thing the folks out there don’t have anything more pressing to spend their money on. Must be nice, is all I can say.
Fire department spokesperson Maurice Luque was confident that the department will find enough volunteers, saying, “Someone is going to step up and want four hours of overtime.”
Here’s my problem with it. If volunteers want to ride, fine, it’s a free country and it’s up to them. HOWEVER, why should the taxpayers be on the hook for the overtime? If these people want the firemen in the parade, the organizers should come up with the bucks to pay them. They can’t afford it, the firemen don’t ride.
Yet another fine use of taxpayer money..
Just what the taxpayers want -- to pay firemen to endorse homosexuality. San Diegans are crazy if they put up with this.
Of course, your annual review might not look too good if you don’t volunteer for the “right” causes. Volunteer for a Catholic Church activity, perhaps.....
No doubt mandatory for off duty though.
Check out the Chief’s photo (google) and all will be revealed.
The "volunteers" will be lesbos and nellie boys from the SDFD. Citizens of San Diego will be forced to pay them to put their perversion on public display. They should now demand a permit for a Heterosexual Pride Day parade with overtime paid to all fire department personnel who want to ride and march in that parade.
I already saw the photo of her it when the news broke. Sometimes I think that only the mentally ill are allowed to hold positions of public trust these days.
With that fag/lesbian, so-called "chief n charge"....you expect the public to believe this.
Give me a break!!
taxpayer money in overtime for riding as a volunteer in a parade? will they get this for Christmas, Veteran’s Day, Fourth of July?
I'll pay you to wag your little hoses for me, Sexy!
From the San Diego Union Tribune, June 20, 2006:
"Jarman, 50, was raised in Escondido, the daughter of a mechanical engineer and a stay-at-home mom. She lives in Del Mar with her domestic partner...
That pretty well lets you know why the firefighters are driving in a gay parade at all.
Now they ought to drop Tracy Jarman.
Sounds weasly to me. I saw one of the firefighters talk to Fox News about what he was subjected to at that parade. It was beyond vulgar...no one should be forced to endure treatment like that, anywhere, anytime. However, if he didn't get a lawyer, he would have been retaliated against, no doubt.
It would serve them right to have a parade and garner no audience.
The four hours overtime is far from all taxpayer money that goes into Gay Pride events. You would be surprised.
FAGGIES RULE!!
(Sorry folks, that’s just the way it is.)
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