{"id":330,"date":"2006-08-30T07:33:55","date_gmt":"2006-08-30T12:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/330"},"modified":"2006-08-30T07:35:07","modified_gmt":"2006-08-30T12:35:07","slug":"all-the-markings-of-bigotry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/330","title":{"rendered":"All The Markings Of Bigotry"},"content":{"rendered":"

So…here’s the scenario…  A man who was hired by a city police department to psychologically screen prospective new hires is discovered to be a member of an antisemitic group that distributes copies of Protocols of the Elders of Zion<\/em>, pamphlets denying the holocaust really happened, and asserting that Jews are anti-Christian Christ killers. It develops that this man was conducting psychological tests against prospective employees which he<\/em><\/strong> developed <\/em><\/strong>on a grant from the Bush Department of Justice.  Some say his membership in the antisemitic group is suggestive of why he’s disqualified many Jewish applicants, and they complain to the police community relations council, which orders an investigation.  The police department stops using his services while the investigation is underway. <\/p>\n

The head of the antisemitic group is suitably outraged.  "Does this mean that any person with a Christian or moral belief system cannot work for the city?" he asks. "This case has all the markings of blatant anti-Christian discrimination and bigotry. People of faith should follow it carefully, because they could be next."  Everyone writes him and the former police department screener off as a couple of bigoted crackpots.\n<\/p>\n

Hahahaha!  No…<\/a>  \n<\/p>\n

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Minneapolis interim police chief Tim Dolan has ordered an inquiry into the use by his force of a psychologist tied to a group that opposes LGBT civil rights, gay marriage and endorses the so-called ex-gay movement.<\/p>\n

Michael A. Campion has been used by the police department for more than a year to screen prospective police officers.  Campion also has worked for departments in more than 100 cities over the past 30 years. He  is based in Champaign, Illinois.<\/p>\n

His involvement with the Illinois Family Institute was brought to Dolan’s attention at a meeting last week with the Police Community Relations Council when it was learned that Campion had made negative comments about single parents.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

Although some of Capion’s comments to prospective officers "disturbed" members of the Council, Chief Dolan said there was nothing specific to indicate he was biased in his testing.  Nevertheless he ordered an independent inquiry and said Capion would not be used until the inquiry finished its work.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

"Does this mean that any person with a Christian or moral belief system cannot work for the city of Minneapolis?" said David Smith. "This case has all the markings of blatant anti-Christian discrimination and bigotry. People of faith should follow it carefully, because they could be next."<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Bigotry.  Bigotry.  Homosexuals are disease spreading, child molesting, family destroying perverts that god hates and who don’t deserve any sort of civil rights and people who tell us not to kick them in the face are not moral and are not Christian.  And we’re not bigots, the rest of you are.  Bigotry.  Bigotry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So…here’s the scenario…  A man who was hired by a city police department to psychologically screen prospective new hires is discovered to be a member of an antisemitic group that distributes copies of Protocols of the Elders of Zion, pamphlets denying the holocaust really happened, and asserting that Jews are anti-Christian Christ killers. It develops […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,6],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-the-bully-mindset","tag-the-right-wing-mindset"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}