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Mr. Savage: Did you get a copy of the policy? The Personnel Policy? Ms. Cherry: The Personnel Policy basically says if somebody does something give them counseling. Mr. Savage: I didn't read it all. Is there a morality clause in there? Sally Ruthart: There's a bunch of... Ms. Cherry: There's nothing that really addresses that. Mr. Savage: It's vague. Sally Ruthart: As far as social media, there's nothing in there. Ms. Cherry: That was probably made before social media. Mr. Savage: So, I agree, I don't care if you are a maintenance worker when you are working in public housing or you're at the welfare office, I just don't think there are certain things you need to be posting or saying in public or posting publicly. Ms. Cherry: I believe if you feel that way, you feel that way whether you post it or not, but if you post it we know you feel that way. Mr. Savage: That's just not a good thing. Ms. Cherry: You feel that way you're looking down on people and I think that affects how you treat those people that you're looking down on. You can't help but to. Kelly Crawford: Should there be a social media policy? Mr. Savage: I was gonna say going forward we probably need to think about this as a board and add a policy we need to add something to the policy there. Doesn't matter what color, I don't think you should do that. I don't think you should put anything like that on there. I know even at Campbell Soup, I don't work for public housing or welfare, you can get fired out there for something you said and I don't think you should make those kind of comments public at all. Ms. Cherry: And this "Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve ". You know people have the right to believe what they want to about people, but gay people have the same rights as anybody else even now by law, you know, with the marriage. I don't care if your religious beliefs, like that lady over in wherever, she wouldn't give out license and stuff but if you work in the public then you do what the law says. If you have a gay couple living in housing authority that training lady mentioned that, you have gay couples in some housing authorities, you can't discriminate against them or talk bad about them. Mr. Savage: You can't discriminate, but at the same time, just like, I'm not trying to talk about gay people, I'm just using this as an example. Gay people have certain rights and the country provided them this right but people that don't believe that have the same rights. So if they wanna say that I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman,