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Thursday, 13 October 2011
NJ teacher in hot water over online remarks concerning LGBT pride month
Free speech? Not when you're a Union Township high school teacher.
School officials in Union Township are investigating allegations that a teacher at Union High School posted comments on her Facebook site criticizing a school display recognizing Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender History Month and calling homosexuality "perverted."
The teacher, Viki Knox, allegedly referred to homosexuality as, "a perverted spirit that has existed from the beginning of creation," and a "sin" that "breeds like cancer."
Naturally the perpetually aggrieved are, aggrieved.
On Saturday, a local attorney wrote to the district calling for the teacher's dismissal.
The lawyer, John Paragano, a former township councilman, provided the district with what he said was a copy of the Facebook thread that included the offending remarks.
"Hateful public comments from a teacher cannot be tolerated," wrote Paragano, also a former Union Township Municipal Court judge. "She has a right to say it. But she does not have a right to keep her job after saying it."
Mr. Paragano must have been one heckuva judge seeing as how he's completely unaware of The First Amendment. Free Speech for me, but not for thee! Yeah, that's pretty much what the "gay rights" guys always say. It's their way or the highway. Oh, and bullying!
It has also prompted gay rights advocates to question the ability of teachers who express such views to enforce New Jersey's new anti-bullying law, adopted last spring in the wake of the suicide of Tyler Clementi, a Rutgers student who killed himself after learning he had been watched, via webcam, having sex with another man.
You can think, "Ewwwww…" But you can't say "Ewwwww…" Not on Facebook anyway.
Seems to me I know who the bullies are here. And Viki Knox ain't one of 'em.
Posted at 11:30 by Chris Wysocki
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