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High school teacher faces sack over anti-gay Facebook comments
Daily Mail ^ | 1-13-2012 | Daily Mail

Posted on 01/13/2012 12:15:09 AM PST by Colonel Kangaroo

A New Jersey school teacher accused of writing anti-gay comments on Facebook is stirring a new pot on free speech rights versus her possible termination.

Tenure charges were formally filed against high school English teacher Viki Knox, 50, last month after she was placed on leave in September for words her school board argues to be potentially harmful to their students.

'Why parade your unnatural immoral behaviors before the rest of us?' a Facebook user with her name wrote calling homosexuality 'a perverted spirit,' 'sin,' and which 'breeds like cancer,' according to NJ.com.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; newjersey; publiceducation
Full title:'It's a perverted sin and breeds like cancer': High school teacher faces sack over anti-gay Facebook comments

We must not make people feel uncomfortable.

1 posted on 01/13/2012 12:15:14 AM PST by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

Only quibble I have is use of “breed” as not applicable. “Spread” perhaps...


2 posted on 01/13/2012 12:22:50 AM PST by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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To: dayglored
She is telling it like it is.

But the authorities get two positive events if they get rid of this lady. Not only do they get a win for gayness, but they rid the school of a Bible study adviser. Those bigoted Bible studying Taliban types make people uncomfortable also.

3 posted on 01/13/2012 12:30:46 AM PST by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

Is it interesting that we have a first Amendment Right which specifically gives us the freedom of religion, but that school has taken this right away from their teacher. She is no longer allowed to voice the Truth—about a vile, dysfunctional act which is “evil”. The schools are able to lie and pretend it is “good” so not to hurt the feelings of children who have been emotionally and/or abused by the important adults in their lives.

It is really as the Bible says about Good being called Evil and Evil being called good.

This vilification of Christian belief has to end. It is fascism and redesigning the Laws of Nature—it is a lie and undermines our Constitution saying dysfunctional behaviors are a right. Our “rights” come from God-—and, NOTE TO THE PRINCIPAL-—There is NO right to sodomy but their is a right to the freedom of religion.

We need to take sexual orientation OFF of “special rights”—it is not Right Reason according to Nature. It is a joke-—like saying raping babies is a right. Sick, evil Marxists trying to make all sexual acts moral. Destroys all decent religions.


4 posted on 01/13/2012 12:31:16 AM PST by savagesusie (Right Reason According to Nature = Just Law.)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo
All this bigoted hetrophobia needs to be punished. Fire the administrators.
5 posted on 01/13/2012 12:33:19 AM PST by MaxMax
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To: savagesusie

Maybe we are not that far behind Canada after all. And I suspect that there are those in high places who would be quite comfortable with shutting up “insensitive” speech from the pulpit also.


6 posted on 01/13/2012 12:36:17 AM PST by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: Colonel Kangaroo
All she needs to do is declare that she's a Muslim, and that Homosexuality violates the teachings of the Koran.

The School Board will be tripping over themselves trying to apologize and reinstate her immediately...

7 posted on 01/13/2012 12:36:58 AM PST by Cowboy Bob (Greed + Envy = Liberalism)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo
An attorney who wrote a letter to Chief School Administrator Patrick Martin after seeing the Facebook posting explained himself, according to NJ.com, that while Ms Knox or any other teacher has a right to say it, 'she does not have a right to keep her job after saying it.'

Only a lawyer could say something like that with a straight face.

8 posted on 01/13/2012 12:44:54 AM PST by rmh47 (Go Kats! - Got Seven? [NRA Life Member])
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For any of y'all who are Facebook people and are interested, here's the link to the "Support Viki Knox" page:

Support Viki Knox

9 posted on 01/13/2012 12:47:50 AM PST by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

bttt


10 posted on 01/13/2012 1:01:20 AM PST by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo
There is a sloppy equivocation in the term "anti-gay".

On the one hand, it could mean hating and persecuting people because they are gay (like that deplorable Phelps guy and his "church" do)

On the other hand, it could mean taking the philosophical opinion that gay sex is sinful. Per the Christian view, this is hardly remarkable, since Jesus Christ and the apostles made it clear that everybody is sinful. And they also made it clear that if you expect your own sins to be forgiven you must accept that God offers such grace to everyone.

I have not seen the entire context of what she said...however the snippets quoted in the article are not sufficient to establish she is anti-gay in the first place. My fear is, that her real crime might be heresy against the religious doctrines of the state. To hide the fact that the real charge is heresy, those that want her fired will sloppily equivocate any heresy against their dogma as being a hateful anti-gay attack. And yet, we should not condemn them in their hearts, because they are only blind fools.

11 posted on 01/13/2012 1:02:25 AM PST by AndyTheBear
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

Britain is dead.


12 posted on 01/13/2012 1:02:31 AM PST by A Navy Vet (An Oath is Forever)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

That FB page looks like it’s been overrun by a horde of slobbering psychotic homosexuals spewing hate out of every diseased orifice.


13 posted on 01/13/2012 1:05:48 AM PST by wolficatZ (:"TV is king, you're my everything..")
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To: A Navy Vet

And so are we.


14 posted on 01/13/2012 1:07:08 AM PST by A Navy Vet (An Oath is Forever)
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To: AndyTheBear

The Phelps cult provides a useful instrument to condemn principled Bible teaching on homosexuality. If there wasn’t a Phelps, the left would have to invent him.


15 posted on 01/13/2012 1:08:15 AM PST by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

There’s no doubt I’ve said some things on here that would prevent my hiring at a lot of places. That’s just the way it goes.


16 posted on 01/13/2012 1:43:26 AM PST by Terry Mross (I'll only vote for a second party)
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To: savagesusie

In America you have freedom of speech, but just watch what you say...boy.


17 posted on 01/13/2012 1:43:51 AM PST by yank in the UK ( A liberal mocking Christianity. I asked "why don't you mock Islam?" he replied "Muslims are violent)
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To: wolficatZ
That FB page looks like it’s been overrun by a horde of slobbering psychotic homosexuals

I wonder if anyone is sifting through those posters looking for people in sensitive positions so they can be fired from their jobs?

18 posted on 01/13/2012 1:45:04 AM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: savagesusie

Agree: Under Obama and his Education Czar the teachers have to push how to be a queer on little boys in grade school now. By the time fully indoctrinated young gays reach High School, this lady would be in the way of accepting and openly promoting tolerance gays, AKA QUEERS.

Last time I read the Bible there was something about man shall not lie with man. Obviously it also goes for women with women. This country is looking more and more like the last days of Rome with Obama and his ilk trashing our country.


19 posted on 01/13/2012 2:48:47 AM PST by Lumper20
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To: Colonel Kangaroo
'It's a perverted sin and breeds like cancer'

A redundancy and a mixed metaphor are used in a single short sentence. She's an English teacher and writes like this?
20 posted on 01/13/2012 2:58:16 AM PST by aruanan
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

There is nothing festive about sodomy.


21 posted on 01/13/2012 3:00:27 AM PST by seton89 (Starve the Beast)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

a Facebook user with her name wrote calling homosexuality ‘a perverted spirit,’ ‘sin,’ and which ‘breeds like cancer,’

Okay nothing untrue in any of this. Is the truth now a cause to be fired??


22 posted on 01/13/2012 3:01:18 AM PST by SECURE AMERICA (Where can I sign up for the New American Revolution and the Crusades 2012?)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

for words her school board argues to be potentially harmful to their students.

So the direction liberalism has gotten us too?
The words might be harmful to the child but being a pervert is not......


23 posted on 01/13/2012 3:02:48 AM PST by SECURE AMERICA (Where can I sign up for the New American Revolution and the Crusades 2012?)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo
She was practicing both her constitutionally protected rights to freedom of religion AND speech—if she had posted a photo of herself holding a gun it would be a triple offense to the fascist Left.

PC gots to crush her, natch.

24 posted on 01/13/2012 3:25:42 AM PST by Happy Rain ("Newt Rick or Rick cuz four more with the Twit will put America in the....")
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To: Colonel Kangaroo
'Why parade your unnatural immoral behaviors before the rest of us?' a Facebook user with her name wrote calling homosexuality 'a perverted spirit,' 'sin,' and which 'breeds like cancer,' according to NJ.com.

Her words are true, and supported by facts, science, and statistics. Homosexual practices result in shorter lifespans, spreading of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), increased mental health issues, and endangers the health and safety of the public at large.

Male/male or female/female sexual union can only be achieved by means of perverted risky behavior. To pretend otherwise is evidence of a seriously disordered mind. To punish people for stating the truth is even worse, in my opinion.

25 posted on 01/13/2012 3:33:20 AM PST by olezip
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

The Left is big on diversity, except if you disagree with them.


26 posted on 01/13/2012 3:34:00 AM PST by 6SJ7 (Meh.)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo
"Tenure charges were formally filed against high school English teacher Viki Knox, 50, last month after she was placed on leave in September for words her school board argues to be potentially harmful to their students."

Yet, if she is fired it would equally harmfull to Christian students who see it as confirmation that Christians are second class citizens in this school. Anti-Christians bullying is all this is.

27 posted on 01/13/2012 3:52:34 AM PST by circlecity
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

Our American Education system has been in the business of making people feel uncomfortable since the Dewey eyed educators usurped the local church as an important pillar of our society.England is ripe for Islamic occupation -her churches are dead—her government a joke —and hey America will follow Merry /Gay old England— eh?


28 posted on 01/13/2012 4:02:27 AM PST by StonyBurk (ring)
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To: dayglored

The land that claims Joseph the tin man brought young Jesus of Nazareth to—makes me wonder if there would be any place in England for the Holy family today?


29 posted on 01/13/2012 4:04:13 AM PST by StonyBurk (ring)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo
a Facebook user with her name

Knowing zip about face book, couldn't one use any name they choose? What, for instance keeps me from getting an account in the name of Colonel Kangaroo, then writing all kinds of scurrilous things under that name ?

30 posted on 01/13/2012 4:06:38 AM PST by Graybeard58 (Eccl 10 v. 19 A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things.)
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To: A Navy Vet

“Britain is dead.”

No it isn’t and last time I looked New Jersey was still considered part of the US. Maybe you should try reading the article before firing off any more of your anti-British non-sequiturs?


31 posted on 01/13/2012 4:12:45 AM PST by Caulkhead
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To: StonyBurk

“England is ripe for Islamic occupation -her churches are dead—her government a joke —and hey America will follow Merry /Gay old England— eh?”

Firstly, this story is nothing to do with England. Secondly may I remind you that Britain is over 90% white British christian, it is officially a christian country and our head of state is leader of our church. Our parliament has full time christian lords who sit and review every piece of legislation that passes through the house, but only christian ones, no other religions. There is no separation of church and state here, no ban on religion in schools and public buildings and the government directly funds thousands of faith schools.

When we compare that to the US demographic with it’s ingrained secular approach to government and lack of official christian status and lack of official christian religion and lack of church involvement in the making of your laws, you really don’t have the moral a high ground when criticising a properly christian country like Britain. And then you just had to go and elect a muslim president didn’t you?

Please, get your own house in order before throwing stones at mine, especially when the stones seem largely based on MSM untruths and stereotypes rather than facts.


32 posted on 01/13/2012 4:24:32 AM PST by Caulkhead
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To: StonyBurk

This was reported in the Daily Mail (UK) but it happened in New Jersey, USA.


33 posted on 01/13/2012 4:36:40 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o (Jesus, my Lord, my God, my All.)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

Sounds to me like the only honest teacher ion New Jersey.

Where is that fat A-hole Governor Christie and why isn’t he helping her.


34 posted on 01/13/2012 5:15:25 AM PST by Venturer
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

Welcome to the USSA, comrades, where every day is a gay day, and if you don’t like it, you’d better not say a word.


35 posted on 01/13/2012 5:29:59 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

She looks like a normal, decent, loving Christian woman. It's no wonder the hateful far left wants her fired.

36 posted on 01/13/2012 6:06:34 AM PST by Pollster1 (Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
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To: Caulkhead

touchy -touchy —eh?


37 posted on 01/13/2012 6:17:08 AM PST by StonyBurk (ring)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

I stand corrected. The US system of education has been broken since the sixties. and our local churches seem to have chosen to be Sunday Morning Social clubs subject to the 501-C3 status with the Internal Revenue service worse so since LBJ was a Senator. so it appears the US has chosen to make Toynbee a prophet. (He did try to warn us.-and yes I know he was a Brit.)


38 posted on 01/13/2012 6:22:02 AM PST by StonyBurk (ring)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo
If there wasn’t a Phelps, the left would have to invent him.

Well when Phelps ran for office...he was not a Republican, nor a Tea Partier...but a Democrat.

39 posted on 01/13/2012 8:24:35 AM PST by AndyTheBear
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To: MaxMax
Fire the administrators.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Ok...So, the community gets into an outrage. Many wear out their lives trying to work their jobs, take care of their families, and have an occasional day for recreation. They do all this and what happens?

The fired administrators **will** be replaced by people who have been indoctrinated in the same classrooms, the same universities, and graduate schools. It's like playing “Wack a Mole” at a carnival.

If energy is to be expended it is best directed at removing the very source of these educational sinecures for these modestly talented Marxists.

Solution: Begin the process of privatizing all K-12 education in this nation. Work for complete separation of school and state.

A generation or two of citizens educated using sound educational practices, and based on our nation's founding principles, and these homosexual bullies and Marxists will be driven back into their closets.

40 posted on 01/13/2012 8:48:59 AM PST by wintertime (I am a Constitutional Restorationist!!! Yes!)
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To: Pollster1

If she’s smart she should use the race card on school and gay’s.


41 posted on 01/13/2012 9:40:26 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: Venturer
Elbowing to the front seat on the Mitt Romney bandwagon is the number one task for Governor Christie now. Our betters have spoken, and they say Mitt is the man.

But we'll see when the votes are counted.

42 posted on 01/13/2012 11:58:41 AM PST by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: Colonel Kangaroo
In Canada she probably would have been fined $5,000 or more for her comments.

When the Bill of Rights was adopted, most Americans were self-employed (their own farm or shop). Expressing one's opinion didn't mean losing one's livelihood. At that time not one person in a thousand would have publicly praised homosexual conduct, and even fewer posted on Facebook.

Most people who get fired at 50 are going to have an awfully hard time ever finding work again. This woman might have a little better luck as a minority--but may have to settle for a lower-paying job at a religious school rather than at a public school.

43 posted on 01/13/2012 1:11:45 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: SECURE AMERICA

This is why-no matter if the absolute worse Republican in your mind runs against Obama- just pull that lever or do what it takes to vote. We cannot afford this looney tunes for 4 more nor can the kids have their lives destroyed by his pals.


44 posted on 01/13/2012 5:13:02 PM PST by Lumper20
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