Posted on 06/16/2006 10:26:15 PM PDT by Leatherneck_MT
WASHINGTON // Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. fired one of his appointees to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority yesterday after the board member asserted on a local cable talk show that homosexuals lived a life of "sexual deviancy."
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He wasn't fired for his religion, he was fired for expressing a viewpoint that the governor considered inappropriate. If an appointed member of the Bush administration (say, a Menonite) expressed his view that the Iraq War was immoral (because of his pacifist religion, of course), would that be protected speech? Would Bush be unjustified in firing him?
Look, this guy is not up on employment law--his comment that this is a case of religious discrimination proves it. I applaud your efforts to educate him but I suspect it will be a lost cause.
That's disgusting. Thanks.
No doubt, but I have little better to do on a rainy Saturday afternoon.
Where in New York State are you? It's a hot, beautiful day in Boston.
The firing may be legal; however, it was not justified on anything other than pleasing the delusional homosexually disordered that were screaming for Mr. Smith's head --ALL because he correctly identified their sexual acrobatics as deviant disordered behavior...
The homosexual emperor has no clothes...
More on the Governor Ehrlich kneejerk firing fiasco...
The world thinks they behave like the characters on "Will and Grace."
Yes, I can agree the firing was probably excessive. It wasn't the best move for a public official to publicly say what Smith did, but it was hardly untrue.
I'm actually in Hartford right now, but I'm from the Hudson Valley (just south of Poughkeepsie). I almost made a trip to Boston for the weekend--it sounds as though I should have.
It sure is deviancy when 98% of the population swings the other way. That is the definition of deviance.
I know what your brother the cop means. These people are deviant beyond belief.
Did he ever come across two adventurous fags who were sticking electrical shock devices up each others ******??
They will do anything that is a gross perversion of even the homo norms.
I think Ehrlich should FIRE Jim Graham too (if he can), he's the one who created the media mess by ambushing Smith at the Metro board meeting with the press and turned this into a three ring nightmare for Ehrlich. Graham stepped way out of bounds on this one, IMHO, and he should be called on it, but he probably won't, because he's an openly gay attorney living in DC.
Graham obiviously didn't like Smith and probably already knew his conservative views, and apparently, he doesn't like Ehrlich either, or he would have handled it differently. Graham acted like a drama queen and managed to create problems for both Smith and Ehrlich. IMHO, it was quite planned.
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