Maine Reporter Fired Over Gay Marriage E-Mail

Larry Grard, a veteran newspaper reporter at The Morning Sentinel in Waterville, says he was fired for sending an angry e-mail to a pro-gay marriage group.

http://www.myfoxmaine.com/dpp/news/20091211_reporter_fired_over_gay_marriage_...

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[ksm1031]

History is clear-Religion, particularly the "Christian Religion" is a Doomsday Cult. These people are dangerous for civilization & futures child. God isnt a Religion. God isnt their hatred & divisionism. It isnt so much what you read, or even say, but what "you do" that matters to God. Your Vanity in church, your bigotry & racism, your selective reading of the Bible to justify your collective Christian evil is Shameful! Christian adulterers & murderers be damned, God judge your hypocrisy!

[Ma3lst0rm]

History is clear that religion has had the effect of civilizing man. If not for religion modern science and the scientific method very well might not exist. The idea of an ordered universe created by a benevolent God to which mankind can strive to be like has been the source of all modern ideas that are now taken for granted that are not all very self evident on their own. Ideas of liberty, equality, and charity run counter to the nature of man.

[pkiverson]

Is that a joke? Because the crusades, the Spanish Inquisition, the Salem witch trials, the 9/11 attacks, the Israel/Palestine conflict, the India/Pakistan conflict, the promotion of slavery, and the poor treatment of women all are results of religion. What religion told us women should be treated as equals or slavery should be illegal, or everyone should have the right to believe what they want to believe? Certainly not any of the major Western religions.

[hempracer]

So, he's a Catholic...how does he feel about interfaith marriage? Divorce and remarriage? Atheist marriage? While I'm sure he's not very approving, I doubt he's going after those kinds of marriages the same way he's going after the gay ones. And THAT'S what makes all prop 8 supporters hateful people. Think of all the marriages you don't approve of, and why, and how you go about legislating them...or not legislating them, and the hateful hypocrisy it represents.

[ScienceReasonBelief]

I'm a gay man. He's allowed to be a bigot if he's not smart enough to understand equality for gays. Getting fired from his job was an overreaction.

[bb6f44]

I'm very much in favor of gay marriage, but I don't think they were right to fire the guy if he used his personal e-mail account.

[PhantomMaster101]

What astounds me is people are so quick to bring up religion and persecute it for all of the millions of past slaughters; Inquisition, Salem witch trials, ETC but they seem to forget about the Anti religion, religion Atheism, and agnosticism. Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Polpot. In one Century Anti-belief has murdered well over 80 million alone. What I am saying is it goes both ways. I refuse to be PC, the new religion. Let me do my own and you for once live with it.

[philip0460]

Just for your information, the term "homo" is very offensive. If you are a nice person and want to refer to your fellow gay Americans, I would use the term gay. Thanks.

[SpeedyBruin]

Not knowing the facts surrounding the firing of his wife I don't have an opinion on that.

[JarodysCampaign]

They fired his wife as well.

[PhantomMaster101]

If the shoe was on the other foot the pro homo crowd at the NEWS paper would not have said a thing.

[SpeedyBruin]

He improperly used his news resources to send a very rude email on his news account. His boss is within his bounds to reconsider his employment.