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“If Jesus was here tonight, and I’m very familiar with the bible, I’ll guarantee ya He’d want him terminated”

Wednesday night’s “The Daily Show” brought this story to our attention. In Largo, Florida, Steve Stanton has been a city manager for fourteen years. After he announced that he was planning to get a sex change operation, however, the proverbial shit hit the fan and late last month, the city commissioners held a six-hour hearing and then rubber-stamped an earlier vote to fire Stanton.

Of course, the commissioners say that he’s being fired, not because he’s transgendered, but because folks have lost confidence in him (and the Mayor said the same thing on the “Daily Show” segment). No sir - no discrimination here.

“I think we’re pretty well convinced,” Commissioner Gay Gentry said before the vote. “You have to believe us, you have to trust us, it is not about transgenderism.”

The old “trust me - it’s not discrimination because I say it ain’t” defense. Gotta love it. Especially since most of the folks who spoke during the hearing spoke in Stanton’s favor. Others complained that Stanton’s announcement cast the city in a bad light, making “Largo the laughingstock of the whole country.” But that doesn’t have anything to do with the subsequent decision to fire him, right? That’s not what made y’all laughing stocks, right?

Perhaps the most amazing thing about this story is that, while it sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen, Stanton says he has no plans to sue. Of course, this may be like Gore’s continued statements that he has no plan, at the very moment the words are being spoken, to run for President (i.e., “my plans may change tomorrow”). So we’ll just have to wait to see whether Stanton follows his current plan or if he decides, once he’s traded in his pants for a dress, to also sue the city out of its pants.

Check out the wonderful description of Largo from its own website (and below that, you can watch the “Daily Show” clip).