A city manager for Largo, Florida recently came out of the closet and announced he was planning to have a sex change operation, the Sun-Sentinel reported.The town held a hearing with plans to fire Steve (soon to be Susan) Stanton from the job he had held for 14 years.
As you might expect, the council voted to fire him.
Townspeople packed the city hall for the meeting.
"If Jesus was here tonight, I can guarantee you he'd want him terminated," said Pastor Ron Saunders of Largo's Lighthouse Baptist Church. "Make no mistake about it."
Who died and made him Jesus' spokesman?
Not content just to show his supernatural ability to channel Jesus, Saunders, who is the pastor of a church with thirty — count 'em, thirty! — members showed his knowledge of biology and psychology by adding, "He's not going to be a man, and he's not going to be a female. He's going to be an 'it.' It's going to be the most sorrowful decision he has ever made."
Stanton is married, with a 13-year-old son. He says he's wanted to be a woman ever since he was a child.
Image: A very feminine-looking Jesus tiptoeing across the Sea of Galilee
Additional links:
Video of Stanton's speech to the council, from the St. Petersburg Times
The Florida Masochist
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