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i am about as liberal as they come, but I think we have to be realistic about acknowledging that choices in our private lives do have an impact on our professional reputation. I, lowly me, can not have a public blog where I say whatever I want and still have the professional reputation I want in order to keep this particular job. That isn't censorship, but just the realities of an open job market.
I make lots of personal choices in hairstyle, dress, behavior so I can be respected and be perceived for my job, not my personal life.
We all keep our personal life priveate and seperate from our job. wanting to maintain a volitile personal blog while having a very public respected political job is not realistic. It is no way new to expect employees in the public to maintian respectible images.
Grow up and learn the realities of the job market.
