58 year old Larry Grard, a longtime newspaper reporter was fired. He used to work for the Morning Sentinel in Waterville, Maine, and that paper is owned by the Portland Newspaper Guild. The reason for the firing was that he didn't agree with homosexual rights. Apparently he sent an email to the Human Rights Campaign the day that Maine voters repealed a law that would have allowed gay voters to wed. Grard said he was offended that the Human Rights Campaign claimed gay marriage opponents used hate and said it was supporters who were being hateful. A co-worker saw the email and passed along the information.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,579863,00.html?test=latestnews
My opinion: I feel that he shouldn't have been fired because he didn't do a public news story about it. He simply exercised his first amendment right and wrote a private, personal email regarding something he obviously felt wasn't right. It's starting to get to the point with today's political correctness that one cannot say anything, especially against homosexuality, without getting in "trouble" or other people freaking out about it.
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