New Jersey teacher in trouble over anti-gay Facebook comments
I don’t know which passage of the bible says that homosexuality “breeds like cancer”… IMHO this is not a case of free speech. Just as I am curtailed from commenting on my employer’s policies on facebook and my blogs, so to can teachers be. It doesn’t matter if I make up religious justification or rationalizations for my commentary, if I tear down a policy of my employer in public then I can be fired. The only leg I would have to stand on to fight it is if it were a whistle blowing incident, which this is clearly not.
She came to officials’ attention when she commented on her school’s recognition of Lesbian, Gay, Transgender, Bisexual History Month. Among other things, she wrote on Facebook that homosexuality was a “sin” that “breeds like cancer” and that marking LGBT History Month was like parading “unnatural, immoral behavior before the rest of us.”
Gay advocates say that teachers who hold similar views could be lax in enforcing new anti-bullying legislation passed in New Jersey last spring. That legislation followed the suicide of Rutgers University student Tyler Clementi, who threw himself off the George Washington Bridge when he learned that his roommate had secretly filmed him with another man.