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(8,224 posts)Friends Testimony to Integrity commends a life that could be published in detail. I have no concern over my voting record.
I issue permits that require public notice for a living and am tasked to assure that the terms and conditions are met openly and honestly consistent with the Testimony to Integrity. I have no problem with any of it, and the permits I issue are far less dangerous to the public than a CCW permit. Every keystroke, note I write, or document I produce in this position is public record available to the press and subject to publication and has been for the last 20 years. Some in fact have been published.
If folks are truly proud and richeous in their exercise of this right, then I cannot paint a scarlet letter on their house. If ownership must be hidden to avoid the "scarlet letter", then it is no different in moral content than adultery and other things that people do and feel need to be hidden.
If it is the free exercise of their cherished rights, then they should be proud, and unconcerned about publication.