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Fla. Teacher Suspended for Posting Anti-Gay Marriage Views on Facebook

Fla. Teacher Jerry Buell Suspended for Posting Anti Gay Marriage Views on Facebook

Florida high school teacher Jerry Buell was suspended from his job this week over postings on his Facebook page.

A Florida history teacher has been suspended after it was revealed he wrote about his objections to gay marriage on his personal Facebook page.

Jerry Buell, who was Mount Dora High School’s “Teacher of the Year” last year, reportedly wrote that he almost “threw up” in response to New York’s legalization of same-sex marriage in July.

According to Fox News, the school system received a complaint about the comment Tuesday and suspended and reassigned Buell the next day.

“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,” Buell told Fox.

Buell provided the following transcript of his comments, posted July 25:

“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.”

Chris Patton, a communications officer for the school system, told Fox there was concern about how Buell might treat gay students in his class. He also disputed the notion that the comments were private.

“He has [more than] 700 friends,” Patton said. “How private is that – really? Social media can be troubling if you don’t respect it and know that just because you think you are in a private realm – it’s not private.”

He vowed Buell will not return to the classroom until “a thorough job of looking at everything – past or previous writings” is complete.

Buell said he thought the school is trying to silence Christian teachers, warning them not to express their views.

“There is an intimidation factor if you are a Christian or if you make a statement against it [gay marriage] you are a bigot, a homophobe, you’re a creep, you’re intolerant,” he said. “We should have the right to express our opinions and talk about things.”

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  • reasonablysane
    Posted on August 19, 2011 at 10:17pm

    Pretty sure if he had been advocating legalizing pedophilia the school board (AKA Union sell out technocrats) and the ACLU would be defending his 1st Amendment rights.

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    • ashestoashes
      Posted on August 19, 2011 at 10:26pm

      Jerry…Hooray for You.! God bless you for sticking up for His laws. God saw what you did and I am sure that He is well pleased with what you did. You are someone that kids look up to.. It‘s too bad that other teachers don’t have your morals or the cahonies to stand up for what is right.! ….Y O U G O J E R R Y!!!

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    • Tall Tal
      Posted on August 19, 2011 at 10:45pm

      Who are we trying to fool ? The truth is what the left is afraid of. Teachers,union thugs and administers of shools are on the defence because we the people are speaking our minds. We are not going to political correct any more . We will speak our minds.If their feelings get hurt ,so what. We will let someone else come and pat them on the back and tell them they are not being understood. who gives a flip ? what is wrong is we have been quiet to long and we will sit down and we will not shut up and we will not give up

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    • techengineer11
      Posted on August 19, 2011 at 11:53pm

      Ha! Right you are.

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    • Shiroi Raion
      Posted on August 20, 2011 at 12:13am

      I keep hearing about the government interfering with people’s personal lives and suppressing their beliefs and opinions using schools as an excuse, e.g. firing and suspending teachers for not going with the Liberal agenda 100%, the cheerleaders who posted nude pics of themselves, teachers spying on the students, and so on.
      This is very disturbing.

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    • Caniac Steve
      Posted on August 20, 2011 at 12:26am

      I’d laugh my guts out IF the ACLU was to step in for Him…but I’ll NOT hold my breath as and yes it looks and sounds like he school district is trying to get last years Teacher of the year to toe “the districts” line…hell jerry go to the “ribber room” like they do in NYC..and collect your check for doing NOTHINg..screw em

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    • KStret
      Posted on August 20, 2011 at 2:34am

      Would he been suspended for making a pro same sex marriage comment?
      Would he been suspended for making a negative comment about a state passing a bill that keeps the definition of marriage the same?
      Free speech for me but not for thee….

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    • rachany
      Posted on August 20, 2011 at 4:49am

      He needs to sue them!!

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    • chazman
      Posted on August 20, 2011 at 7:20am

      … find a good, blood sucking lawyer, Jerry, and destroy those lousy Liberal Marxist’s in yer school system!

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    • StonyBurk
      Posted on August 20, 2011 at 7:49am

      I sent my e-mail response to Chris Patton yesterday– and wrote a long letter giving details as to why I
      agree with Jerry Buell. Today ,after reading this , I am even more convinced Jerry Buell deserves our prayers and our support. I AGREE the public school system -as is all our Government today hostile to the Christian .” If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is,He cannot be a Christian anywhere .” Henry Ward Beecher

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    • Seabee79
      Posted on August 20, 2011 at 8:17am

      sounds like he is about to take the school board to the cleaners in a law suit chaching$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

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    • one years food ration like glenn says
      Posted on August 20, 2011 at 8:43am

      I’ll tell ya, I don’t understand the facebook crap… I WAS a member until I found out about them digging into your private life and all the security reasons.. I can’t grasp the idea of why he would even put something like that for all to see… I applaud him for his beliefs but putting stuff like that on facebook if you’re a teacher is just asking for trouble..

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    • Mil-Dot
      Posted on August 20, 2011 at 9:35am

      Post this on facebook -“1st Amendmentment lawsuit”

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    • INOGAWD
      Posted on August 20, 2011 at 10:34am

      Gay’s SUCK !!!!! We are going down…DOWN the F’N Toilet !!

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    • JJ Coolay
      Posted on August 20, 2011 at 11:25am

      First of all Patton, it’s private because it was done on his own personal belongings and not done through a school server. How many friends he has is not the issue.
      2ndly, you’re making decisions based on speculation???? “…the concern of how he might treat gay students” ???? The teacher was upset about gay marriage. Are there married students in high school?

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    • HappyStretchedThin
      Posted on August 20, 2011 at 11:38am

      I have had teachers in my classroom who have had hateful and ill-informed opinions about my religious beliefs, and about my politically conservative values. I suppose they could have been biased, but since religion and conservatism only formed an incidental part of the subject matter, we were always able to move forward in the confidence that personal opinions and classroom professionalism would stay separate when it came to evaluating my work. Students who self-identify as lgbt should have no problem with this teacher because even WITH these opinions, in the past, he has given good grades to those who deserved it, no matter their gender orientation.

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    • Secret Squirrel
      Posted on August 20, 2011 at 3:26pm

      .
      Did any teachers get fired for posting Pro-gay comments?
      Let’s see what the issue really is.

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    • rangerp
      Posted on August 20, 2011 at 7:16pm

      What a sick nation we have become. Homosexuality is becoming the new civl rights play ground. We have about 30 days left, and they will officially release the sodomites on the military. I can only imagine. The most vocal group will be the lesbians. they will want gay and lesbian night at the officers club, and all manner of sick twisted rights. I also bet the lesbos will be the ones looking for old fashioned conservatives who hold to Bible standards on homosexuality, and be looking to roast one. Will be plenty of problems with male queers, but I will bet that most of them will stay in the closet a little while longer than the lesbians.

      This country is going down the drain quickly. What ever happend to our 1st amendment rights?

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  • DYNA
    Posted on August 19, 2011 at 10:13pm

    Live and let live, coexistence, is never going to happen when people are pressured to lie against the Truth.

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    • StonyBurk
      Posted on August 20, 2011 at 10:27am

      And the truth is Nobody can view what Jerry Buell has on his Facebook page unless they initiate it.
      And the truth is Florida State constitution Section 27 adopted in 2008 ,Insofar as marriage is the legal union of one man and one woman,as husband and wife,no other legal union that is treated as marriage or the substantial equivalent thereof shall be valid or recognized.” From what I have read reported Jerry Buell plainly expressed the distinction between his personal viewpoint and any other. I am no attorney–nor gay activist–but I find no violation of either the Code of Ethic for Florida educators nor State law—and challenge ANY to show me otherwise.

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  • BOMUSTGO
    Posted on August 19, 2011 at 10:08pm

    The “thought police” are here! This is (was) America!! We can’t put our thoughts in words anymore???
    If you have not‘ read George Orwell’s book,”1984,” please take the time to read it.

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    • M 4 Colt
      Posted on August 19, 2011 at 10:30pm

      Ah yes more left wing PC crap, it’s okay with them to say whatever you want just so long as you toe the left wing line but once you step over the line and say anything different from the left wing view point you become an enemy of the people.

      Wake up America this PC crap will be the death of our great country, now is the time to start speaking back to the left wingers, remember the 1ST Amen. works for us on the right too, as for this school teacher i would sue the school or anybody else that i had to to insure my right to say anything i want on MY PRIVATE face book page and if others don‘t like what i write THEN DON’T READ IT and if you do read it and don’t like it then you can pi55 off.

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    • Wayne
      Posted on August 19, 2011 at 10:41pm

      Thank you Mr Buell, we need more people like you who has backbone to stand up to the devil. These **** do stuff that the lowest form of any living thing don’t do. the lowest form of a being.

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    • kreese
      Posted on August 19, 2011 at 10:44pm

      You’re first sentence says it all—-another thread being pulled from the fabric of this once great land.

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  • BOMUSTGO
    Posted on August 19, 2011 at 10:02pm

    I should be in a FEMA camp by now with all the Anti-Obama stuff I post on facebook.

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    • kindling
      Posted on August 20, 2011 at 12:37am

      I think a lot of us feel that way. The internet is the lefts tool to follow us all and in the end we will all be rounded up and carted off. I feel sorry for this teacher because he has lost his job and I feel sorry for the kids he taught because they are loosing a great example of good principals. The parents should be shouting at the board to give him back his job. It is none of their business what his person views are. Next they will be looking at your voting records and fireing everyone that does not vote the same as them. Cowards. He is a hero among teachers.

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    • OhSuzieQ
      Posted on August 20, 2011 at 7:30am

      @ BoMustGo

      OMG…me too! lol

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  • Deanna in Missouri
    Posted on August 19, 2011 at 9:59pm

    Does anyone have the address or email where we can contact the school? I for one do not believe he is a bigot as someone posted above. Most people do not condone this lifestyle and I for one will not be forced to say I approve when I do not. If you want to be gay then be gay..but I do not need to know your sexual preference. Why should you get special rights because you prefer the same sex? Why does anyone need to know? I believe you just want everyone to tolerate it, believe in it completely, have more people doing it so that you can pretend to feel that it is ok. Otherwise why have it taught in school? I am sure that I will be jumped on for saying this but I do not care. I have the freedom of speech or at least I did until progressives came along.

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    • Ruler4You
      Posted on August 19, 2011 at 10:02pm

      As a union toady you have only ‘One’ view: that of the union. Socialism.

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    • MODEL82A1
      Posted on August 19, 2011 at 10:06pm

      Seriously? You can use The Blaze Comment feature but you can’t run an internet search for, “Mount Dora High School Florida”?

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    • TumbleBumble
      Posted on August 19, 2011 at 10:24pm

      I sent a letter to the school’s principal, Pam Chateauneuf…

      ChateauneufP@lake.k12.fl.us

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    • Deanna in Missouri
      Posted on August 19, 2011 at 10:53pm

      MODEL82A1
      Posted on August 19, 2011 at 10:06pm

      Seriously? You can use The Blaze Comment feature but you can’t run an internet search for, “Mount Dora High School Florida”?

      Do you feel better now? Are you always such a helpful person? Or just a natural jerk? Of course I can do a Internet search but someone may have had it handy and willing to give it out. I already have it now.

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  • mossbrain
    Posted on August 19, 2011 at 9:58pm

    This happens all the time with employers checking out potential employees facebook pages and not hiring people with minor offensive postings about partying. Germany is considering a law to make it illegal.

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    • Faith1029
      Posted on August 19, 2011 at 10:20pm

      I am not on Facebook but from what I have heard, you are able to have only the people you have as friends to view it and block those who you don’t want. How then can anyone like companies search it and find your information?

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  • Stu D. Baker-Hawk
    Posted on August 19, 2011 at 9:57pm

    The teacher, Mr. Buell is correct: God will NOT be mocked. Hold on to your seats and pray for your souls, liber-tards, because your wickedness WILL be addressed on the Day of Judgment.

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  • OhioMarcus
    Posted on August 19, 2011 at 9:56pm

    so much for free speech… I would be if the shoe was on the other foot… if someone worked for a Christian organization and said something pro-gay on facebook and was fired for it, the same people slamming this poor guy would be against that kind of firing – we should be able to say things like this outside of our place of employment. What next, tea partiers being fired by liberal bosses for going to a tea party? I hope this guy wins, should sue the pants off the guy who fired him

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    • Lesterp
      Posted on August 20, 2011 at 9:09am

      Mount Dora is a wonderful place with wonderful people, I believe the people in Mount Dora will not let this stand. The school is way out of touch if they think the community isn’t going to back Mr. Buell.

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  • Elena2010
    Posted on August 19, 2011 at 9:53pm

    I was almost asked to remove my “McCain/Palin” bumper sticker where I worked at a Christian school. It’s as if you check your First Amendment rights at the door.

    So wrong!

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    • Nick84
      Posted on August 19, 2011 at 10:59pm

      How can you almost be asked?

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    • Puppy
      Posted on August 20, 2011 at 12:25am

      Maybe you should have just removed the “McCain” portion of the bumper sticker?

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    • Chuck Stein
      Posted on August 20, 2011 at 2:49am

      @ Puppy

      Right on!

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  • Sara72
    Posted on August 19, 2011 at 9:50pm

    It was his personal page, his OPINION… So NOW lets FIR ANY TEACHER that posts in support of Gay rights on their personal page! This is a joke… I hope he sues and wins!

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  • Mammabear3
    Posted on August 19, 2011 at 9:48pm

    Ahhhh….yes. I was threatened regarding my job when one of my “Gay” co-workers exposed my remarks (which should have been protected) to my Managing Broker and my Sales Manager. He told me that “They would never want anyone with ”anti-gay, anti-immigrant views” to work for them. All I had said was that I wish the Gay people good luck while they “baptize” the “product of their unions.” I also made it clear that I do not believe in illegal immigration, as I am from an immigrant family who was required to come to America legally. My story would be worthy of Glenn’s attention, however, I know that capturing that is impossible.

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    • randy
      Posted on August 19, 2011 at 10:08pm

      God Bless you Mommabear!

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    • Rayblue
      Posted on August 19, 2011 at 10:24pm

      State government tried to intimidate me over certain subjects I wrote about in 2006.
      They tried to claim I was using state stationary to write on and doing it on state time.
      Unfortunately for them I had the goods on them for much worse abuse of time and money.
      So all they could do was not promote me and denigrate me in public.

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  • nptden
    Posted on August 19, 2011 at 9:46pm

    There should be more concern about gay teachers. Doesn’t the school worry about how they will react to the MAJORITY of straight students? This whole Diversity and Sensitivity BS, is about empowerment of a minority over a majority. Just like Equal Rights was BS, they want more rights, Control is what they want. To impose acceptance by the majority who disagree. What happened to free speech? The lefties love throwing out words like ‘hate’ speech, and ‘hostile environment’ to get there way. But God forbid those who disagree get theirs.

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    • The Third Archon
      Posted on August 20, 2011 at 4:29am

      But we should accept them. You are jumping to a lot of conclusions about a lot of individual gay people that don’t make a whole lot of sense or have any support in what you are saying. I don’t think gay people are collectively a power hungry mob that wants nothing more than to enslave you to the forces of wickedness. I think they just want to live their lives and be treated like everyone by and large. Well, there are probably SOME megalomaniacs, but I’m sure near the proportion of heteros who do the same. Why SHOULDN’T we treat them the same? Why SHOULDN’T they be given the same rights?

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    • JJ Coolay
      Posted on August 20, 2011 at 11:35am

      @Third Reich: They are treated the equally, as human beings. They are given the same rights as all American citizens. They SHOULD not be treated with special rights for their choice of sexual orientation.

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  • LindaTea
    Posted on August 19, 2011 at 9:43pm

    If only more would do what this principle did, they would have to close all the public union schools, then these “anti-gay” parents and teachers, principles who don’t want “gayness” taught to their 6 year olds can open new schools that teach READING – WRITING and MATH!! I can bet there are more of US then them!!

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  • The Third Archon
    Posted on August 19, 2011 at 9:42pm

    “He has [more than] 700 friends,” Patton said. “How private is that – really? Social media can be troubling if you don’t respect it and know that just because you think you are in a private realm – it’s not private.”

    Well…yeah, but does that mean he should whitewash who he is, even if that person is an idiot? I mean really, if kids are allowed to use the internet, there’s a lot worse stuff they could stumble onto than this guys moronic beliefs. If we can’t expect them to handle this, then we definitely shouldn’t be letting them use the internet.

    See and I knew you were going to make this argument:
    “there was concern about how Buell might treat gay students in his class.”
    And it’s a valid concern, but my question is, do you have any EVIDENCE of mistreatment? It’d be one thing if he were expressing these opinions in class, in a public setting on the public dime, but he’s not, at least not that we know of. And unless, or until, we know of said discrimination on the job, I don‘t think we can realistically have a standard that says he can’t do this. That’s not really fair. And we have to be equitably fair in our treatment of everyone…even morons.

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    • 4truth2all
      Posted on August 19, 2011 at 9:54pm

      Being a moron, I’m not sure……should I thank you for “being fair”.
      I’ll take a chance… for us morons…thanks!

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    • The Third Archon
      Posted on August 20, 2011 at 12:58am

      Look, I think it‘s a good constitutional principle to respect this guy’s right to be wrong. I think that’s a brilliant and necessary part of civil society. However, I don‘t think that means I’m required, or should, be any less blunt than necessary in my opinion on those stupid opinions, which I nonetheless I think are important people be allowed to have. The whole point of the 1st Amendment is so that the good and true ideas can be distilled from the marketplace of ideas through rigorous ideological and philosophical debate. If that doesn’t happen, and if ALL ideas aren’t present, then that system breaks down. So while I think that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation (or race), or abhorrent political ideologies (like fascism, Nazism, or communism) are all important to allow people to espouse without persecution, I don‘t think I’m obligated to like or agree with those beliefs, and I think it is my duty to say so in no uncertain terms.

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    • ZAP
      Posted on August 20, 2011 at 2:53am

      Queers destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah! U,S,A, next

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    • The Third Archon
      Posted on August 20, 2011 at 4:24am

      “Queers destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah! U,S,A, next”
      Something you have no evidence ever happened…nor any logical reason to suggest why it would happen…how exactly are gays, roughly 9% of the American population, supposed to be responsible for the destruction of itself and the other 91% of the population? What possible actions could they collectively take to destroy the other 91% in the conceivable future? Why would a just God (by human understanding of justice) do such a thing, when he could just destroy the 9% he is arbitrarily inexplicably pissed at, even though He apparently likely made them that way, so it’s His fault…why does God get all butt hurt over some sodomy? Two women making love is a beautiful thing–how could a heterosexual Jesus not appreciate that? If God ISN’T just by human understandings justice, then why give us those understandings in the first place? Is it His idea of a cruel joke for us to experience the world in one way, but have the underlying reality be completely different but unknowable? For that matter what definition of “God” are we operating under–we have to establish what we are looking for before we can even talk about finding it. You see, there really are a lot of unanswered questions, unanswerable questions down the whole “God” tree–so it’s kind of the tree in the forest that falls; does it make a sound? Who cares.

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    • spyderpopp
      Posted on August 20, 2011 at 9:31am

      @The Third Archon

      Ramble on….

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    • INOGAWD
      Posted on August 20, 2011 at 11:35am

      You Libos are really something !! if we disagree with you TUR**S,
      we are Racist, Terrorist, Hostage Takers and NOW we are MORONS.
      Tell you something..I don’t need this “gay, green and PC crap” shoved
      down our throats..our Kids don’t even know how to write anymore and
      they are throwing all this other BS at them, back to the 3 R’s, PERIOD..

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  • 4truth2all
    Posted on August 19, 2011 at 9:39pm

    To bad I’m not in charge. I’d fire the person that fired him unless he reinstated him.

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  • MODEL82A1
    Posted on August 19, 2011 at 9:38pm

    The teachers’ union will destroy the Principal and/or Superintendent in short order.

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    • Bonesaw
      Posted on August 19, 2011 at 9:43pm

      I dunno bout that. He‘s on the wrong side of the political argument to receive the full support of the teacher’s union. At the very best he may get his job back but get a 3 month suspension or something.

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    • MODEL82A1
      Posted on August 19, 2011 at 10:02pm

      Sorry, BONE, but you’re wrong. Teachers’ unions only care about one thing, DUES=POWER. I don’t care if this poor guy admitted to being a GBTV subscriber. Teachers ARE NOT to be fired or suspended (unless it’s with pay and benefits) EVER.

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    • reasonablysane
      Posted on August 19, 2011 at 10:25pm

      Ya think so? I’m guessing total silence from the teachers union or vocal support of the school board “to get rid of this homophobic hate mongering Christian” for the children, the hypocritical leftist bastards can always come up with a poor excuse….

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  • The Third Archon
    Posted on August 19, 2011 at 9:37pm

    “When did this sin become acceptable?”
    When my generation hit maturity–I know, it sucks doesn’t it old people, but don‘t worry you won’t have to put up with a world that accepts gays for who they are much longer.

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    • chips1
      Posted on August 19, 2011 at 9:45pm

      I’m only concerned with old age, where as you have to concern yourself with AIDS. I won’t even ride my Harley to your funeral.

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    • StonyBurk
      Posted on August 20, 2011 at 6:35pm

      I accept gays for who they are–they are the deceived. they LIE to everybody -case in point Vaughn Walker–the antiChristian Prop 8 Judge ,who gave the Judicial Code and the good people of California the finger as he rode off into retirement at the baths,Case in point those who enlist in the Military-or apply for any job anywhere –but never mention they are working for their “cause” .They “choose a dangerous and destructive lifestyle and then cry because the majority of normal people just want them to shut up and keep their life to themselves. dont damn them -they are damned by what they choose to do.

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  • Steel Awesome
    Posted on August 19, 2011 at 9:36pm

    I sense a lawsuit coming out of this decision.

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  • Caerus
    Posted on August 19, 2011 at 9:36pm

    “Chris Patton, a communications officer for the school system, told Fox there was concern about how Buell might treat gay students in his class.”

    But it is okay to openly anti-Christian (though I admit /most/ of my teachers like that have been in college, a few were in high school), because who cares how they treat the Christian students? I had an anti-capitalist government teacher in high school too, would they have suspended her?

    Seriously though, what an idiotic claim. It might have some merit if he said something like “Saw 2 gay students kissing today. Think I’m going to look over their next essays a little harsher. Only by the Grace of God will they be saved from ‘F’s and burning in Hell.” Then I could see checking out if he is mistreating the homosexuals in his class. Suspending him over him stated disapproval of gay marriage? That’s a joke, and a bad one at that.

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    • Cat Ballou
      Posted on August 20, 2011 at 10:35am

      How would he know which students were gay? Oh! that’s right, being gay is something to share with society, whether society wants to know about your personal life or not. Is the word discreet even in the dictionary anymore?

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  • The Third Archon
    Posted on August 19, 2011 at 9:35pm

    “A Florida history teacher has been suspended after it was revealed he wrote about his objections to gay marriage on his personal Facebook page.”
    FLORIDA?! You mean “where old people go to die” Florida did something PRO-GAY?! Isn’t that the first sign of the Apocalypse? Someone get a Bible, quick.

    But seriously though, firing someone for being a stupid idiot bigot in their personal life is silly–assuming he doesn’t bring his views to a public school (I’m okay with him taking it to a private religious school where he will be paid for such bigotry) and infect children there with them it’s fine. It‘s not like there aren’t hundreds of cops across the nation who enjoy dressing up in Nazi regalia and attending American Nazi Party meetings on the weekend and we don’t fire them (I kid you not, we have one of those in Portland)…although maybe we should look closer into that one. My point is, though, that very few of us do things in our private life that are 100% acceptable to EVERYONE–no one even agrees 100% about what acceptable is. So we can’t be firing people for things like that–not when there are some many OTHER good reasons we need to be firing them. Like incompetence, or teaching that Creationism is a scientifically supported theory.

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    • Caerus
      Posted on August 19, 2011 at 9:44pm

      Never been to Florida, have you? North Florida is pretty conservative (with a few exceptions), but South Florida is a very liberal place. Gay Days? Key West Pride? Yeah, believe it or not there is more to Florida than geriatrics and Spring Breakers.

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    • The Third Archon
      Posted on August 19, 2011 at 9:47pm

      I don’t believe it.

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on August 19, 2011 at 9:52pm

      CAERUS I live in Tampa and it seems pretty 50/50 here.

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    • Nothingleft
      Posted on August 19, 2011 at 10:21pm

      How about turning that around. Should he be censored if he supported gay rights. Wild guess, commie turds have no comment.

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    • Chris
      Posted on August 19, 2011 at 10:32pm

      o why would someone have to be a Bigot to find 2 men kissing on tv repulsive? I find it repulsive. I can respect people without having to like what they do or how they act. You see it‘s simple minded people who can’t see past their own self righteous noses that believe their opinion must be fact that are screwing the whole situation up. I am not gay, I have friends that are gay, I like the person but I don’t have to like what they do. I am not a bigot. But I find it repulsive when I see men kissing. Simple. And this teacher spoke his OPINION on facebook. from his OWN HOME on HIS OWN TIME. Sad… The thought police are out in force now.

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    • megansmom
      Posted on August 20, 2011 at 1:08am

      I live in Florida and I will tell you the public schools here are bigoted liberal cess pools.

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    • El Pistoffo
      Posted on August 20, 2011 at 3:06am

      I live in South Florida and yes it’s pretty pro-gay, and yes the public schools are a cesspool and YES I am disgusted by the sight of two men kissing. It’s as simple as that for me, no beating around the bush, no PC!

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    • totallyfedup2
      Posted on August 20, 2011 at 10:50am

      @Third Archon —- This guy must be on drugs ! ! !

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  • Glenn is Right
    Posted on August 19, 2011 at 9:32pm

    If you have a career or a relationship, you don’t want a Facebook account, because soon you will only have one of these.

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  • calebgs83
    Posted on August 19, 2011 at 9:32pm

    And the education system wonders why they are so hated…because they are a bunch of marxist-fascists. It is time for Americans to stand up and demand that the Federal Department of Education is dismantled.

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  • jedi.kep
    Posted on August 19, 2011 at 9:32pm

    If our country actually respected the first amendment, this school would be toast. But we don’t, and I doubt the man will ever get his job back.

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  • Smokey_Bojangles
    Posted on August 19, 2011 at 9:32pm

    Yeah,I guess two men rectally violating each other should be Ok With Him.I Do not have anything against gays/Lesbians/or any other pervert marrying each other,but this just does not help the gay agenda at all.Next teachers will be in trouble For NOT wanting to have sex with children.

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    • 4truth2all
      Posted on August 19, 2011 at 9:47pm

      You joke about that.Take a good look.. which direction do you THINK were headed.
      Looks down to me!

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    • LilliRose
      Posted on August 20, 2011 at 7:35am

      Smokey, are you the same Smokey Bojangles I used to know from years back… along with Lifelover and Blackdiamond? Just wondering.. I haven’t seen that name in years…

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  • ohnomrbill
    Posted on August 19, 2011 at 9:30pm

    ha ha ha

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