Good Grief: FL "teacher of the year" to be fired for Facebook entry opposing NY gay-marriage law

For those that conflate being anti-gay agenda with being anti-gay, this story should dissuade any such notion. A 22-year veteran high school teacher who was the "teacher of the year" at his school just this last academic year is being fired for speaking out on public policy supposedly against an ethics code. The teacher is in Florida and made the comments regarding public policy in New York. From Fox Nation: Teacher Opposed to Gay Marriage Could Lose Job

A former “Teacher of the Year” in Mount Dora, Fla. has been suspended and could lose his job after he voiced his objection to gay marriage on his private Facebook page.

Jerry Buell, a veteran American history teacher at Mount Dora High School, was removed from his teaching duties as school officials in Lake County investigate allegations that what he posted was biased towards homosexuals.

“We took the allegations seriously,” said Chris Patton, a communication officer with Lake County Schools. “All teachers are bound by a code of special ethics (and) this is a code ethics violation investigation.”

Patton said the school system received a complaint on Tuesday about something Buell had written last July when New York legalized same sex unions. On Wednesday, he was temporarily suspended from the classroom and reassigned.

Patton said Buell has taught in the school system for 22 years and has a spotless record. Last year, he was selected as the high school’s “Teacher of the Year.” But now his job is on the line because of what some have called anti-gay and homophobic comments.

Buell told Fox News Radio that he was stunned by the accusations.

“It was my own personal comment on my own personal time on my own personal computer in my own personal house, exercising what I believed as a social studies teacher to be my First Amendment rights,” he said.

Ed Morrissey posts the 'offending' remark:

The first was posted on July 25 at 5:43 p.m. as he was eating dinner and watching the evening news.

“I’m watching the news, eating dinner when the story about New York okaying same-sex unions came on and I almost threw up,” he wrote. “And now they showed two guys kissing after their announcement. If they want to call it a union, go ahead. But don’t insult a man and woman’s marriage by throwing it in the same cesspool of whatever. God will not be mocked. When did this sin become acceptable?”

Three minutes later, Buell posted another comment:

“By the way, if one doesn’t like the most recently posted opinion based on biblical principles and God’s laws, then go ahead and unfriend me. I’ll miss you like I miss my kidney stone from 1994. And I will never accept it because God will never accept it. Romans chapter one.”

Meanwhile union teachers in Wisconsin and Michigan can compare the respective governors to Hitler and murderers, on the taxayer dime since many took sick days to protest, with no worries of repercussions whatsoever.

UPDATE: Arguing with a Gay Marriage Supporter. Just make sure you're not a K-12 teacher:

Finally a supporter of homosexual “marriage” explains why it’s so important to sacrifice the ancient sanctity of holy matrimony on the altar of political correctness: