Not taking the severance package, and no-sue pledge allows her to sue for wrongful termination (I stood up for God and paid the price) and brings her holier-than-thou credentials up to a high polish because she didn’t take the money. Never mind that the can look forward to a couple of decades of speaking engagements that will pay more than any severance package and, with a bit of luck, she will get hired on by one of the well funded anti-choice groups as a spokesperson.

I really can’t wrap my brain around that one. At best, you might think it’s better for some women to die of cancer than for other women to get abortions (and even that’s hard to believe). But could anyone claim this would be ‘better for women’?

Good riddance Handel. And good luck to Komen getting your reputation back.

And she would have pulled it off, too, if it weren’t for those meddling kids. social media. In the age of the newspaper, when news moved slowly, the whole pretense about ongoing investigations would probably have sufficed to fritter away the opposition.

But I’m positively surprised by the speed of Handel’s departure. The tide might really begin to turn…right-wing Christians are no longer the only ones capable of organizing and mobilizing on short notice and their disproportionate influence seems to be waning in consequence. I think I could live with a world where people of Handel’s ilk are seen as a liability rather than an asset for public outreach.

While I appreciate your raising a possible severance package, I respectfully decline.

In other words: “You can’t fire me, I quit!”

Not only that, but it also lets Handel claim martyrdom status and possibly talk smack about, or even sue, SGKC later.

While I appreciate your raising a possible severance package, I respectfully decline.

In other words: “You can’t fire me, I quit!”