[Non-Sequitur]

Apparently, discrimination is OK as long as it targets Catholics, Christians, Muslims or religious Jews who oppose "gay marriage". Whatever happened to the 1st Ammendment?

And how many threads has FR had about people being booted from organizations for being gay, expelled from schools for having gay parents, or getting fired for being pregnant and unwed?

[bigLusr]

nd how many threads has FR had about people being booted from organizations for being gay, expelled from schools for having gay parents, or getting fired for being pregnant and unwed?

Exactly. How many people here would be upset if the guy was fired for coming out on a cable show? If the governor doesn't like the face being put out by one of his appointees it is his right, as governor, to fire the guy. Case closed. Don't vote for the guy next time, but we can't go complaining about "free speech" on this one, guys.

[TheCrusader]

"And how many threads has FR had about people being booted from organizations for being gay, expelled from schools for having gay parents, or getting fired for being pregnant and unwed?"

I dunno, three?

I think you're referring to PRIVATE organizations who are entitled to structure their own rules and regulations as they see fit. There is absolutely nothing unfair about that, since the members are there by choice, to live their lives as they wish. This story is about a government employee who spoke his mind on a radio talk show, and a homosexual deviant who took offense to his words and seeks reprisal and revenge. You are trying to compare apples and oranges and it just doesn't work.

Homosexuals are a twisted, angry group of people whose sexual debauchery keeps them in a constant state of spiritual unrest and rage.

[RobbyS]

Being pregnant and unwed is the same as being gay? There are degrees of deviancy. Being gay is not as bad as having sex with animals.

[Mrs. Don-o]

"And how many threads has FR had about people being booted from organizations for being gay, expelled from schools for having gay parents, or getting fired for being pregnant and unwed?"

Correct me if I'm wrong, Brother Non, but as I remember it these were all cases of people employed by church organizations, students or faculty in Catholic schools, or otherwise affiliated with a creedal organization which explicitly rejects illicit sexual behavior. In the case of employees, they have signed agreements to comply with the faith and morals of the creedal organization they represent.

Unless the Transit bureaucracy is not a secular government agency but rather the Main Street Church of Perpetual Gaiety, they've got no business rejecting people on the grounds of their non-MSCPG religious beliefs. And unless the guy was speaking on Transit Authority time or as a Transit Authority representative, he has clearly been subjected to a serious injustice.