re: Cop Refused to Work at Utah Gay Pride Parade Placed on Leave Under Investigation

When you absolutely get your arse kicked in an argument, change the subject entirely.

DEFLECTION.

I'm sorry chief, I can't respond to the 911 call at that home. I'm told the inhabitants are adulterers and that's against my religion.

I'm sorry chief, I'm not sticking my neck on the line for this guy who's home is being burglarized. I heard he got a beej from his girlfriend and now I can't protect he or his girlfriend because sodomy is against my religion.

I'm sorry chief, I can't work the detail at the bbq fest. As you know I'm a practicing muslim, and I can't touch people covered in swine. It's not clean and against my religion.

I'm sorry chief, I won't be working the gay pride parade detail. If you think I'm going to be around a bunch of buttfricking queers all day, you're wrong. As you know, I've led a sinless life up until this point, and being around these heathens may make me guilty by association in the eyes of my god and I just can't risk that. It's against my religion.

No chief, I won't be working mardi gras at all this year. Did you know that there are naked women out there? Kids drinking booze and doing drugs? Public sinning as a holiday... no sir, It's completely against my religion. Get someone else to fill in for me all week, they'll understand. It's my religion!

Auto correct. Pardon my spelling mistake, sir.

DEFLECTION.

Nudity at gay pride parades had nothing to do with the OP, but it's a good way to get it sidetracked by deflecting.

I've never been wrong in my entire life, I'll have you know.

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Nudity at gay pride parades had nothing to do with the OP, but it's a good way to get it sidetracked by deflecting.

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I wouldn't say it has nothing to do with it. If the police are indeed required to ignore public nudity laws at gay pride parades (I'm not sure that's the case in Utah) and the officer has evidence of that directive, it might aid him in a proceeding with regards to this assignment.

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I side with the cop in this one. Could the SLC police not find someone else to ride in his place for that parade?

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Which makes you a moron.

I guess they have to find officers for every patrol who are not offended by what might happen in their assignment.

"Okay, who will work the gay/lesbian side of Bourbon? Anybody?"

"Okay, who will patrol the Mulsim neighborhoods? Anybody?"

"Does anybody want to work the KKK rally? Anybody?"

Idiot.

Just because you're enforcing the law at an event (which is your job( doesn't mean you have to agree with the morality of the event.

I dont see how a department directive on prosecuting a certain offense vuolates or doesnt violate his religion. Its not like the bible says nudity is bad. In fact nudity is almodt a sign of innocence in the bible

How would Jesus feel about this cop, charged with protecting and serving his fellow man, abandoning his duties because of someone else's sexual preference?

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So, I assume you have no problem with "religious" New Orleans cops taking off the week of Mardi Gras then, correct? I mean, they're told not to arrest women showing their breasts. And I'll assume you're fine with the hypothetical scenarios I listed above.

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Another TDer not good at the reading.

Misspelling. Sorry.