Last week Angela McCaskill was put on administrative leave after it became public that she signed a petition to put Maryland gay marriage to a vote.
McCaskill says that by signing the anti-gay petition she was joining the 200,000 others that were exercising their rights to free speech. Fair enough, but McCaskill's professional life adds difficulty to the situation. It also opens questions over how much of our professional responsibilities should flow into our personal lives.
You see, McCaskill is the chief diversity officer (yes, I said diversity) at Gallaudet University, which has squeezed school officials into a public relations pickle. Morality aside, legally McCaskill can sign what she wants. She's right, it is her right as an American citizen. She doesn't have to support gay marriage or like gay people. However, McCaskill's job five days a week, and I'm sure some diversity workshop weekends, is to promote inclusion. And as a public figure and representative at a institute of higher learning, should her personal interests be expressed publicly? It's a tricky debate.
McCaskill's attorneys say she's never openly rejected gay marriage and that her signature was a private matter. Gallaudet University officials disagree, saying that it was "inappropriate" for a chief diversity officer to participate in an initiative that challenge Maryland's gay marriage law.
Was Last week Angela McCaskill was put on administrative leave after it became public that she signed a petition to put Maryland gay marriage to a vote.
McCaskill says that by signing the anti-gay petition she was joining the 200,000 others that were exercising their rights to free speech. Fair enough, but McCaskill's professional life adds difficulty to the situation. It also opens questions over how much of our professional responsibilities should flow into our personal lives.
You see, McCaskill is the chief diversity officer (yes, I said diversity) at Gallaudet University, which has squeezed school officials into a public relations pickle. Morality aside, legally McCaskill can sign what she wants. She's right, it is her right as an American citizen. She doesn't have to support gay marriage or like gay people. However, McCaskill's job five days a week, and I'm sure some diversity workshop weekends, is to promote inclusion. And as a public figure and representative at a institute of higher learning, should her personal interests be expressed publicly? It's a tricky debate.
McCaskill's attorneys say she's never openly rejected gay marriage and that her signature was a private matter. Gallaudet University officials disagree, saying that it was "inappropriate" for a chief diversity officer to participate in an initiative that challenge Maryland's gay marriage law.
McCaskill within her rights? Yes. That part is clear. However, do her job responsibilities include a code of conduct outside of business hours? I want to hear your opinion as an LGBT person and as an employee, student, etc.
McCaskill says that by signing the anti-gay petition she was joining the 200,000 others that were exercising their rights to free speech. Fair enough, but McCaskill's professional life adds difficulty to the situation. It also opens questions over how much of our professional responsibilities should flow into our personal lives.
You see, McCaskill is the chief diversity officer (yes, I said diversity) at Gallaudet University, which has squeezed school officials into a public relations pickle. Morality aside, legally McCaskill can sign what she wants. She's right, it is her right as an American citizen. She doesn't have to support gay marriage or like gay people. However, McCaskill's job five days a week, and I'm sure some diversity workshop weekends, is to promote inclusion. And as a public figure and representative at a institute of higher learning, should her personal interests be expressed publicly? It's a tricky debate.
McCaskill's attorneys say she's never openly rejected gay marriage and that her signature was a private matter. Gallaudet University officials disagree, saying that it was "inappropriate" for a chief diversity officer to participate in an initiative that challenge Maryland's gay marriage law.
Was Last week Angela McCaskill was put on administrative leave after it became public that she signed a petition to put Maryland gay marriage to a vote.
McCaskill says that by signing the anti-gay petition she was joining the 200,000 others that were exercising their rights to free speech. Fair enough, but McCaskill's professional life adds difficulty to the situation. It also opens questions over how much of our professional responsibilities should flow into our personal lives.
You see, McCaskill is the chief diversity officer (yes, I said diversity) at Gallaudet University, which has squeezed school officials into a public relations pickle. Morality aside, legally McCaskill can sign what she wants. She's right, it is her right as an American citizen. She doesn't have to support gay marriage or like gay people. However, McCaskill's job five days a week, and I'm sure some diversity workshop weekends, is to promote inclusion. And as a public figure and representative at a institute of higher learning, should her personal interests be expressed publicly? It's a tricky debate.
McCaskill's attorneys say she's never openly rejected gay marriage and that her signature was a private matter. Gallaudet University officials disagree, saying that it was "inappropriate" for a chief diversity officer to participate in an initiative that challenge Maryland's gay marriage law.
McCaskill within her rights? Yes. That part is clear. However, do her job responsibilities include a code of conduct outside of business hours? I want to hear your opinion as an LGBT person and as an employee, student, etc.
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