Folks like Sims are doing little more than wasting tax-payer money and undermining, rather than promoting, the good of the Commonwealth.ДЄnd, so what is the end in all of this? Friends, get involved in the political process. In more pragmatic, political language, we, the citizens, need to take our elections seriously and vote these self-centered, hate-mongers out of office. What does that mean? In Biblical language, that means they have a lot of repenting to do. Second of all, Civil Servants should be just that. For leaders in church, it is the Bible and the Constitution of the Church or Denomination. For local officials, it is the local ordinances. For Representative Sims and others who lead the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, it is the Pennsylvania Constitution. In other words, if you are a Federal official, the Constitution of the United States is your measure and standard. A leader seeks what is true and faithful to those standards that are established for the good of the community. A leader puts their personal preferences to the side for what is best for the whole community. So, where am I going with this? First of all, shame on all of our elected officials whose work revolves around their personal agendas. Again, Representative Sims is not representative of the many civil servants that I have had the privilege of knowing over the years, though sadly he is drawing attention away from that which is good given his antics. Rhetoric and false information seems to drive much of our modern political process rather than reasoned dialogue and debate (no dear friends, mud-slinging and sophistry is not legitimate debate legitimate debate is the reasoned exchange of ideas in the hopes of reaching a conclusion that is logically and morally best!). The problem is that while there are numerous men and women who do seek to govern with civility and integrity, it is the noisy, ignorant minority, modeled by Representative Sims, that stand out and give a bad name to all. I expect that it is safe to say that most of us expect better from those in political office. The only thing that surprises me is that he has not been slapped with a harassment lawsuit, but perhaps he already has. He is an embarrassment to the legislature of our Commonwealth and has made himself a laughing-stock to pundits nationwide. Sims, himself, is a predator who accosts women and youth, mocking and harassing them in the hopes of driving them off - seeking to use intimidation to rob them of their Constitutional right to peaceful protest. While the impetus for this essay was originally the shameful behavior of Representative Brian Sims, namely in his bullying of pro-life protesters in his district, the problem is more widespread than that. They were to be both civil in their behavior and to have the mindset of a servant, seeking the good of the whole, not their own personal agendas. When you put these ideas together, you get the notion that a civil servant is someone, ordained by God, whose role is to serve or otherwise benefit the people of a given region or city, promoting the well-being of all who live in said place. The notion that those who govern are servants, of course, is also a Biblical one, finding its roots in Romans 13:4. In turn, behavior that was considered вЂњcivilвЂќ was understood to reflect that kind of behavior that promoted good will amongst those people who happened to be living in said community. The word вЂњCivilвЂќ goes back to the Latin word, civilis, which refers to a citizen in a given region or city. One very early example of this is the work of Joseph while he was serving in PharaohвЂ™s court. The basic principle behind such management, of course, is much older and we see ample examples of this through history. In the western world, Wikipedia suggest that the term вЂњCivil ServiceвЂќ goes back to 1829 and the expansion of the British Empire - namely that the British government needed people with administrative and managerial skills to manage the resources, the production, and the commerce that took place in their various colonies.

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