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Should sexual-moral conduct in personal life affect career at the workplace?
Deborah’s dark diary is starting to take effects.The other day, Randall Tobias abruptly resigned from office after his name surfaced in an ABC News interview of Deborah Palfrey, the DC Madam.Now, a legal secretary of Akin Gump Strauss Houer & Feld, LLP, has been put on administrative leave after she informed the firm that she used to moonlight for Palfrey.R. Bruce McLean, the chair of Akin Gump told ABC that the firm had a policy barring full time employees from holding second jobs.ABC further reported Mclean to have said that the firm was hesitant to dismiss her because she was a government witness in the case involving Palfrey.In other words, had she not been a government witness, she probably would have lost her job by now.As of now, she is on “administrative leave.” My questions are not about the fundamental rights concerning adult consensual sex, nor are they about how dumb people can be (although there will always be people who will never cease to amaze me in this aspect).My concern is how we, both as individuals and as a society, continually tend to equate an individual’s loss of sexual-moral integrity with the loss of that person’s work integrity.Character lost, everything lost!How quixotic!Years of dedicated service and performance are irretrievably wiped off the slate and become meaningless for acts conducted essentially in a person’s private world and space.Jobs are lost for personal acts that have no bearing upon one’s professional performance.Bright careers snuffed out for what somebody did in bed. I do not advocate sexual misconduct, but do feel that this type of moral policing needs to end.It is surprising, but true, that if you go through legal literature you will notice that the term “immoral,” wherever used, invariably indicates sexual misconduct.Crimes like cheating and breaking the trust of humans are rarely termed immoral.All our morality seems to revolve around a single issue: the sexual conduct of a person. I think that some people, those who lead and generate opinions, are obsessed with sex. Then again maybe it’s because that’s what the people are interested in and want to hear.(Who knows? What came first the chicken or the egg?)Either way, sexual scandals have rocked our country time and again.Many of our dignitaries and public figures have watched their careers topple and become crippled by these scandals.The net result is the world being deprived of their contributions of competence.There should be more concern over loss to the economy, and our society, than the loss of their personal characters. If somebody commits a crime, the machinery of law is there to take care of that.There is no contradiction there.The question is whether people, even in this century, should keep on losing careers and expelled from the workplace for acts unrelated to their work.
05-07-2007
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In the same vein, did you see this one on CNN? Like the story you posted above, this one is also OUTRAGEOUS! This kind of stuff just makes me so angry and I hope this woman wins BIG BUCKS.
MILLERSVILLE, Pennsylvania (AP) -- A woman denied a teaching degree on the eve of graduation because of a MySpace photo has sued the university. Millersville University instead granted Stacy Snyder a degree in English last year after learning of her Web-published picture, which bore the caption "Drunken Pirate."
The photo, taken at a 2005 Halloween party, shows Snyder wearing a pirate hat while drinking from a plastic "Mr. Goodbar" cup. It was posted on her own MySpace site.
Although Snyder apologized, she learned the day before graduation that she would not be awarded an education degree or teaching certificate. Jane S. Bray, dean of the School of Education, accused Snyder of promoting underage drinking, the suit states.
The federal lawsuit seeks at least $75,000 in damages. Millersville spokeswoman Janet Kacskos referred questions to a state System of Higher Education spokesman, who declined comment.
That is unbelievable! It's bad enough that the media goes after all the skeletons in every public official's life. But a lawfirm getting rid of someone for something they did in the past that has no effect on the firm or the work? Just plain low life!
When will this world stop expecting perfection from people in every aspect of their lives? There is no such thing with human beings and it is just not a realistic to expect people to have perfect pasts. I would be willing to bet that some of those lawyers in the firm have some pretty purple pasts they would not want anyone to know about.
This country has been demoralized in every way -- Christians are persecuted, God cannot be mentioned anywhere, we can no longer legally discipline our children, everyone's wrongdoings are always someone else's fault, filthy language and commercials for Viagra are acceptable on TV, sexual ads sell almost every product we bring into our homes, and children as young as 8 or 9 are already having sex. Therefore, I don't think there should be any question that what this firm has done to this girl is wrong. I hope she sues the hell out of them!
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