High school teacher faces unemployment over anti-gay Facebook comments
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...
From the Daily Mail UK: 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.
Ms Knox, who was the faculty adviser to Union High School’s Bible study group, is believed to have been upset over a school display marking Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender History Month.
‘I DO NOT HAVE TO TOLERATE ANYTHING OTHERS WISH TO DO. I DO HAVE TO LOVE AND SPEAK AND DO WHAT’S RIGHT!’ the Facebook user believed to have been Ms Knox wrote.
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