DMV worker who warned of hell for gays quits job

[alp227]

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

(12-16) 14:21 PST SAN FRANCISCO -- The Department of Motor Vehicles employee who sent a letter to a transgender woman warning of eternal damnation after she sought to record her sex change on her driver's license has quit his job, the DMV said Thursday.

Thomas Demartini, who had worked as a customer service representative at the department's San Francisco office for about two years, submitted a letter of resignation Wednesday evening, DMV spokesman Michael Marando said.

The department placed Demartini on administrative leave, with pay, shortly after the woman reported the incident in late October. Marando said the DMV has nearly completed an investigation and will make its findings public.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/12/16/BAF61GRNUL.DTL

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Why'd the DMV, especially in an era of BUDGET CUTS, even let this guy get paid while not working??? But it's good he had the decency to leave a job that he clearly can't do with everyone.

[Taverner]

1. Get rid of his ass!!!

The DMV needs to hire all of the Customer Service people who are here and were laid off

[gayisgood]

21. He should be tarred and feathered

and paraded through the Castro district on a pole.

[virgogal]

2. He'll probably become a preacher.

[undergroundpanther]

3. I wish

This asshole would just go work for the church and stay OUT of contact with the general public. Glad that customer was not me,I would have chewed this dweebs ass so bad he would have quit that day.

Wish we could take these foamers and isolate them on an island,and leave them these with NO WAY TO GET OFF The island OR COMMUNICATE with the rest of the world. Than take over those empty megachurches with mall like parkinglots and make them into shelter for people who are foreclosed upon.

Howabout that?

[Angry Dragon]

4. But then where would their gods live??

[awoke_in_2003]

10. same place they do now...

nowhere.

[niyad]

5. quits??? why wasn't this bastard FIRED???

[Duer 157099]

12. Well the upside is he can't collect unemployment

I'll bet he already has a sweet gig lined up with some other fundy nutjobs, though.

[Demeter]

14. Exactly My Question

If SF doesn't have a kneejerk reaction, who would?

[slackmaster]

6. It's very, very hard to terminate a public employee for cause in California

They have many layers of protection, with rigid formal processes for corrective action and numerous avenues of appeal.

[Gormy Cuss]

17. Does this action mean he preserves benefits that would have been lost had he been fired?

At least he's gone from DMV.

[EFerrari]

18. It doesn't look like he went through the whole process

so I don't see how he could keep his benefits.

[Gormy Cuss]

20. Good. May that be his penance. n/t

[slackmaster]

22. I believe resigning voluntarily means you forfeit everything

Except accrued vacation and maybe sick leave pay.

[No Elephants]

24. Unless you've been offered a nice severance package as a subtle incentive to quit.

[slackmaster]

27. Either way, the problem of having him working at the DMV is solved

:toast:

[gratuitous]

7. New on Fox: The Thomas Demartini Show

Not sure of who's going to heaven and who's destined for h-e-double hockey sticks? Thomas Demartini isn't afraid to tell you what God thinks! Tune in every weekday, right after the Glenn Beck Show, and bask in the wisdom as Thomas tells all!

[savalez]

15. LOL!

[DirkGently]

8. In fairness, DMV employees know a LOT about Hell. Good riddance, though.

[No Elephants]

25. Pfffft. Have they even seen the Devil Wears Prada?

[Jackpine Radical]

9. Why did the put him on paid leave? Because

until some sort of investigation or inquiry is made, he can't be assumed to have done anything wrong. It's standard, and it is reasonable in my book. The guy was an asshole, he lost (left) his job.

[alphafemale]

11. He's already suffering and burning in Hell

The only one that really exists.

I hope he finds his way out.

But I doubt he will ever will.

[pacalo]

13. Good. He has no business serving the general public.

[Anakin Skywalker]

16. This person needs to be FIRED! The DMV ain't no Randy Paul private company!

[Mz Pip]

19. Next stop

Guest commentator for Fox Noise.

[hunter]

23. Oh No! The persecution of Christians in the U.S.A. continues!

:sarcasm:

[No Elephants]

26. If they had put a lid on persecuting others, they would have been fine.

At this point, though, people are pissed off.

IIRC, even Jesus had a hard time tolerating holier than thous.

I sometimes wonder how they zone in on a couple of very brief references in the Old Testament, while missing much of the words that the Bible attribute to Jesus.

Selectively hooked on phonics?

[theHandpuppet]

28. Why wasn't he FIRED????

Placed on leave, WITH PAY, then allowed to resign? His ass should have been FIRED a year ago. Disgusting!