She claims LGBTQ+ rights need to be restricted to "protect kids," but she appointed a man who admitted to having sex with a minor to a high-level position...

She claims LGBTQ+ rights need to be restricted to “protect kids,” but she appointed a man who admitted to having sex with a minor to a high-level position.

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders ®, who has repeatedly pledged to “protect kids” with anti-LGBTQ+ laws, appointed a man to a top state prison post even though he had previously been fired from a local police force for receiving oral sex from a teen girl in a post office parking lot.

Jamol Jones, who Sanders appointed as chairman to the Arkansas Post-Prison Transfer Board in January, resigned last Friday after news agencies reported that the Benton Police Department fired him after he admitted to an internal affairs investigator that he had sexual relations as an adult with a 17-year-old girl, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported.

      • RadicalEagle@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        Yeah, you’re right. I don’t think what he did was right. Then he lied and lost his job because of it. I don’t think public office is the place for a person like that.

        I think the inner anxiety I have is the fact that I’ve never asked for IDs from anyone, although I’ve never had reason to believe I was ever doing anything illegal. But I didn’t even know asking for ID was a thing, but it makes sense.

        So I guess I feel a bit of sympathy towards him at that moment because I could see myself potentially making the same mistake, not out of malice but out of stupidity?

        No disagreement from me though, you are right. Just trying to figure out if my sympathy is misplaced or if I’m just too naive.