A few things jump out. They didn’t know she was pro-life when she had nine children? It looks to me like she wasn’t really hiding it.
So the argument was that she, along with her church, spread a petition to make their town a sanctuary for the unborn. But something tells me that if she’d pushed a petition making her town a sanctuary city for illegal immigrants, things would’ve gone a lot better.
An award-winning news director and co-anchor in Nebraska was recently fired from her job after her bosses discovered she had advocated for a pro-life initiative at a her own church.
Earlier this month, Melanie Standiford of Curtis, Nebraska, was fired from her job at NBC affiliate KNOP-TV, a gig she had enjoyed for five years, after executives at parent company Gray Television learned that she had helped collect signatures at St. John’s Lutheran Church and one other church in the hopes of making the small town of Curtis a “sanctuary city for the unborn.”
The ballot initiative in Curtis is part of a larger network of similar initiatives circulating in six small Nebraska towns — Arnold, Brady, Curtis, Hershey, Paxton, and Wallace — to create a larger safe haven for unborn babies and pregnant women in the western area of the state. The initiatives are largely symbolic, as the closest abortion clinic is hundreds of miles away in Denver. However, if they pass, they will make a statement that these small towns — which have a total population of just over 3,500 people — are an abortion-free zone.
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The Curtis initiative would allow for lawsuits against any medical professional who knowingly performs an abortion within the town limits or against those “aiding or abetting” a pregnant woman in procuring an abortion by, for instance, driving her to a distant clinic. Transmitting abortion-inducing drugs through the mail is already illegal in Nebraska.
Standiford, a 50-year-old mother of nine, said she has always been pro-life about abortion. “It’s just right versus wrong in my mind,” she said, though she also admitted that abortion has not always been one of her “soapbox issues.”
However, her pro-life position became publicly known when an article about the pro-life petitions was published in the Flatwater Free Press. The reporter of the article, Natalia Alamdari, called Standiford and asked whether a journalist ought to gather signatures for a pro-life petition. Standiford replied, “You’re probably right. I probably, maybe shouldn’t have even done that. But who knew it would be an issue?”
But Standiford said that she expressed her pro-life beliefs in detail to Alamdari, but that Alamdari isolated one comment — which Standiford thought was off the record — to “attack” her.
“The article was an attack, an attack directly on me,” Standiford said.
“I told [Alamdari], ‘This is in the privacy of my church. This is something that I did, acting as a Christian, in the privacy of my church,'” Standiford continued.
The day after the Alamdari piece was published, Standiford was fired.
So she did something she felt she must for her faith and now she’s fired for it. Smells like a lawsuit to me baby!!!
And the lawyers be like:
