{"id":25724,"date":"2015-06-03T00:12:11","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T04:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=25724"},"modified":"2015-06-03T00:12:11","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T04:12:11","slug":"do-public-officials-have-the-right-to-politically-incorrect-private-opinions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=25724","title":{"rendered":"Do Public Officials Have The Right To Politically Incorrect Private Opinions?"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Sunday I posted an article about Tammy Covil, a member of the New Hanover County<\/a> Board of Education<\/a> (rightwinggranny.com<\/a>). Mrs. Covil made a statement on a private Facebook page<\/a> saying that she supported a Biblical<\/a> view of marriage and of homosexuality. The statement was screen captured by a person who disagreed with her point of view and posted on a Democrat<\/a> party website. As a result of that posting, some members of the community have called for Mrs. Covil’s removal from office. They have accused Mrs. Covil of discrimination. There is no evidence that Mrs. Covil has discriminated<\/a> against anyone. In fact, I believe that she is being discriminated against because of the Biblical view that she expressed.<\/p>\n

Again, Mrs. Covil is an elected official<\/a> who expressed an opinion that someone did not agree with. When her current term of office<\/a> is up, the citizens of New Hanover County will have the opportunity to vote for her or against her. To remove someone from office because of a privately held belief simply because you hold a difference belief seems contrary to the American<\/a> concept of free speech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Sunday I posted an article about Tammy Covil, a member of the New Hanover County Board of Education (rightwinggranny.com). Mrs. Covil made a statement on a private Facebook page saying that she supported a Biblical view of marriage and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/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":[783,3401,9059,625,9072],"class_list":["post-25724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-discrimination","tag-freedom-of-speech","tag-new-hanover-county","tag-north-carolina","tag-tammy-covil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25725,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25724\/revisions\/25725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}