How does denying a request to not publish a marriage licence serve the public interest?

Agreed.

Yeah, that's really the fucked up part. Not only is this vigilante "justice", but it works to specifically fuck women over.

Wow, this is amazing. Several weeks ago people thought it was totally awesome that random people who were outed for bullying (some guilty and others innocent) and "punished", and now finally folks are understanding why vigilante justice is a bad thing!

Then your manager should have properly staffed your office or cross-trained others.

There are two ethical problems you haven't considered in your post:

Ah yes, that dirty slut deserved it. Brilliant response!

She doesn't have that job anymore, now does she?

Just a thought: taking a giant shit on each other based on gender, sex, race, creed or whatever isn't going to help bring about equality.

No, she didn't.

You don't have a fucking choice if it's your boss.

This is a really terrible argument and you're a terrible person for making it.

This "sliming down Santa" crap has been around for a lot longer than Obama has been a household name. Nice try though.

Why in the fuck would you expect a country to adopt a perfect stranger in place of their current ingrained traditions? Do you realize how stupid you sound?

What do you expect when scientists are stereotyped as asexual robots that do nothing but work? Women especially in the sciences face these stereotypes every day, so when you get a bunch of folks yelling at you, that's why.

Why would you expect that? Do you just assume that women can't both be scientists and have nice nails?

You know, it would be much easier to tell if these proposals would have any effect if folks like the NIH and the CDC were allowed to actually study the issue.

But you act like it's a trivial choice of participating or not and it's not that simple.

Here's the Forbes.com article that explains what is going on: