Posted on 12/19/2013 5:49:34 PM PST by Battle Hymn of the Republic
I'm tired of people getting in trouble for expressing their opinions, popular or not. A person should say what they believe, and we should support their right to say it, whether we disagree or not. This is America. Then again, I don't own a company that depends on revenue generated by quirky Louisiana duck hunters, who look like ZZ Top and believe homosexuality is wrong and Southern blacks were a lot happier back in the good old days.
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No, it would make no difference where you said it. And whether your boss is able to fire you or not rests solely upon the individual bargaining agreement that was in play. If per the conditions of the contract A&E was allowed to suspend or terminate it without compensation, then A&E owed him nothing regardless of their reason for termination. And in all likelihood, that is what happened here. Robertson isn't complaining that his civil rights are being violated. Instead he is acting as if he already knows it is within A&E's discretion to terminate at any time.
>> No one is preventing Robertson from saying what he says.
So in your opinion, political correctness does impede speech in any way whatsoever?
You tell me. Does it impede yours? It certainly does not impede mine.
Not a very clever dodge.
I never intended to make the Constitutional argument. But the situation does indeed involve elements of fascism.
If you will notice, political correctness did not impede Robertson from freely expressing his opinion.
Oppression works better with its examples. And as far as I’m concerned, that’s what we’re seeing with the suspension. Specifically, speak against homosexuality, and there will be consequences. Furthermore, such threats are being instituted in law.
Quote of the month.
Liberals are just power and money hungry bastards with no consciences or ethic.
Gee, sounds like a lot of Democrats to me (and some RINOS, to boot).
You’ll be assumed to be making a constitutional argument When you say things like “freedom of speech” on a political forum. I hope you can see why.
To your point, it’s an overreaction by A&E and I’d wager he was setup to fail. Hollywood hates conservatism and the popularity of their show gave us a rather large soapbox. Liberals can’t have that.
Typical leftist wishy washy answer. At least Robertson had the balls to tell us what he thought, straight out and in your face.
Hicks, like so many leftists or even libertarians, has no balls. End of story.
“I love animalths!”
“I love, too - they’re delicious.”
Classic.
I agree A&E has every right to fire people for any reason they want constitutionally speaking.
Liberals however including hypocritically A&E’s leadership most likely don’t believe in that freedom Instead they believe in the 1964 Civil rights act which explicitly states you can’t fire someone for expressing their religious believes on their own time as Phil Robertson was fired for doing here. (Perhaps they simply believe that applies to liberal religions?)
I don’t agree with the Constitutionality of this act, and am thus in agreement with you in that they can technically fire him for whatever reason they want including unethical reasons like the fact that he doesn’t share their religious believes to stick to their restrictive speech code while on his own time.
That being said Phil should hold the leftist like A&E to their own standards and sue under the civil rights act of 1964. Leftist need to learn that their own oppressive laws should apply to them as much as their enemies.
The issue is the civil rights act of 1964 in which leftist passed laws against firing someone on the account of their religious believes.
We don’t agree with the constitutionality of that act but that doesn’t mean we should let Liberals apply it only as a weapon against us.
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