Should this Mormon Coroner be fired ?

[otago]

Damn a Coroner who puts his faith before his job, should he be fired ?

As well as telling parliament as a Mormon Coroner he was against gay marriage he has also made an idiocy of the Coroners court by putting an suppression order on all details of the soldiers death.

What a complete idiot, his power only applies to deaths that happened in NZ or on NZ registered ships or aircraft overseas.
And a paper newspaper has already made the details public telling him he can shove the order where the monkey shoved it's nuts.

Should the judiciary comment on political events or should they resign first ? it seems this bloke put his Mormon faith in front of his oath of allegiance.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10868979

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10868915

 

[emzie]

His voiced views are his own, as long as he's speaking as a citizen not a government official. If it can be demonstrated he didn't handle the soldier's suicide because the soldier was gay, then yes, he should be fired.

 

[GhostWriter16]

His voiced views are his own, as long as he's speaking as a citizen not a government official. If it can be demonstrated he didn't handle the soldier's suicide because the soldier was gay, then yes, he should be fired.

Yeah, I'd agree with this.

 

[Carras Dad]

there's mormons in new zealand?

 

[downtown]

there's mormons in new zealand?

There are lots actually.

If there was a proven link between declining to investigate the death of the solider and the individual being against gay marriage, then yes, he ought to be fired. There is nothing in LDS theology that ought to prevent a man from doing his job. If the two events are a coincidence, then he's just a guy expressing an increasingly unpopular political opinion, but not something so heinous that it would merit him losing his job.

 

[Luckymoose]

Religious views preventing you from working? I'll take your job.

 

[otago]

Nope the bloody fool went to give his views on gay marriage to the select committee as a CORONER and a member of the Judiciary, he seems to have forgotten he swore allegiance to the crown not to the Mormon church.
It seems he did not want a full inquest because the soldier who shot himself was gay.
Therefore he should be fired and he can move to Utah.

http://www.3news.co.nz/Coroner-erred-in-judgement---Hague/tabid/1607/articleID/288978/Default.aspx

http://www.3news.co.nz/Coroner-crit...tance/tabid/309/articleID/288933/Default.aspx

 

[MobBoss]

I fail to see the conflict here that would prevent him from doing his job.

 

[Masada]

Nope the bloody fool went to give his views on gay marriage to the select committee as a CORONER and a member of the Judiciary, he seems to have forgotten he swore allegiance to the crown not to the Mormon church.

The Crown requires that its servants have to accept gay marriage?

 

[Disgustipated]

there's mormons in new zealand?

My thoughts exactly. I can't see how a small cult from a small town in the U.S. spreads across the ocean.

Not that I have anything against Mormons. My fathers side of the family is Mormon and came from Utah. I love Utah. But you have to admit, it's a strange religion and very far fetched.

 

[bhsup]

I don't think anyone has to admit that. I don't personally subscribe to their beliefs about Jesus coming to America, but if anyone could just come to America in the 1st century AD it would be the son of God, yeah?

 

[Arakhor]

Well, St. Brendan allegedly managed it a few centuries later in a coracle of all things, so it's hardly impossible, but given that the Bible accounts for Jesus' life from the start of his ministry to his resurrection and ascension, I think it's fairly unlikely (to say the least).

 

[downtown]

My thoughts exactly. I can't see how a small cult from a small town in the U.S. spreads across the ocean.

Not that I have anything against Mormons. My fathers side of the family is Mormon and came from Utah. I love Utah. But you have to admit, it's a strange religion and very far fetched.

There are over 14 Million Mormons worldwide, and more of them live outside of the US than inside. You've seen the guys in nametags and bikes right? That's how it goes over the ocean.

I've read the articles, and I still don't see how it is 100% clear that the guy stopped the investigation because the solider was gay. That's *possible*, but not certain.

 

[Ice_Tyrant]

My thoughts exactly. I can't see how a small cult from a small town in the U.S. spreads across the ocean.

Not that I have anything against Mormons. My fathers side of the family is Mormon and came from Utah. I love Utah. But you have to admit, it's a strange religion and very far fetched.

If anything I thought it was more like a parody of religion, when you think about it it isn't really any dumber than many other religions.

 

[mrt144]

There are over 14 Million Mormons worldwide, and more of them live outside of the US than inside. You've seen the guys in nametags and bikes right? That's how it goes over the ocean.

I've read the articles, and I still don't see how it is 100% clear that the guy stopped the investigation because the solider was gay. That's *possible*, but not certain.

They ride bicycle boats across the ocean like jesus did? UNBELIEVABLE!

 

[bhsup]

They ride bicycle boats across the ocean like jesus did? UNBELIEVABLE!

Why not? If American truck drivers can make it across in tractor trailers, surely Mormons can make it across in bicycles.

Spoiler :

Link to video.

 

[warpus]

Not that I have anything against Mormons. My fathers side of the family is Mormon and came from Utah. I love Utah. But you have to admit, it's a strange religion and very far fetched.

All religions are far fetched when you're not used to them. If you grew up not knowing about Christianity altogether, you'd find Catholicism "a strange religion and very far fetched". Mormonism just seems weird to you (and a lot of others) because it's so niche. Conversly, if the world's #1 religion involved the worship of a giant teapot, you would just nod and say "Yep, perfectly normal religion"

 

[mrt144]

Teapot is the light!

 

[Disgustipated]

All religions are far fetched when you're not used to them. If you grew up not knowing about Christianity altogether, you'd find Catholicism "a strange religion and very far fetched". Mormonism just seems weird to you (and a lot of others) because it's so niche. Conversly, if the world's #1 religion involved the worship of a giant teapot, you would just nod and say "Yep, perfectly normal religion"

Something about finding holy texts in Illinois or some such place kind of seems far fetched to me.

edit: I looked it up, it was actually New York he found the plates.

 

[MobBoss]

There are over 14 Million Mormons worldwide, and more of them live outside of the US than inside. You've seen the guys in nametags and bikes right? That's how it goes over the ocean.

I've read the articles, and I still don't see how it is 100% clear that the guy stopped the investigation because the solider was gay. That's *possible*, but not certain.

Yeah, I dont see how his faith impacts his ability to do an autopsy on a dead guy, gay or not. Unless, of course, there is some hidden Mormon prohibition about touching dead gay dudes that we all dont know about....