Many people here are avid public supporters of Terri Schavo. To remain credible, they should not voice public support for a con artist.
Is it possible for yesterday's sinner to be today's saint?
If it is learned she wasn't interviewed; that the onus of the label 'probationary' does not allow an employer to capriciously terminate an employee without detailing the reason(s) for the termination; that school administrator back-stabbing did not create a shut-down of normal communication between Ms. Cooper-Dowda and the school staff ; that Ms. Cooper-Dowda's media comments did not shame the backsliding Christians of Pinellas County for failing to recognize and stand against the barbarism being played out in their own county - as she rightly did - then you are right.
HOWEVER, the story doesn't carry Ms. Cooper-Dowda's byline, and last I heard a reporter verifies facts before a news story is written.
I wrote to you about two saintly examples of sinner repentance. You respond that my reliance upon the facts presented in the story is inappropriate - because you infer the past governs the present; that the actions of Ms. Cooper-Dowda should be suspect, because her past is wrought with devious activities, say you. You choose to support the unforgiving glass house argument 'once a liar, always a liar' .
I fear you will one day sit on a jury, and bigotry - not facts - will dominate the panel's decision process .