Kudos L.F. Eason III
State employee won’t lower flags for Helms
RALEIGH, N.C. – A longtime North Carolina state employee has chosen to retire instead of lowering flags to honor former Republican Sen. Jesse Helms.
U.S. and state flags have been flying at half-staff since Gov. Mike Easley ordered them lowered after Helms died Friday.
L.F. Eason III told his staff at the state Standards Laboratory to ignore the directive. The News & Observer of Raleigh reports that Eason sent workers an e-mail saying he didn’t think it was appropriate to lower the flags because of Helms’ “doctrine of negativity, hate, and prejudice.”</em>
Note to all those who refuse to fill prescriptions due to religious reasons- this is how you do it. If your beliefs don’t allow you to do the job- then you don’t do the job.
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Simple, eh?
