MD's Gov. Ehrlich fired his representative on the local transportation board for saying homosexuality is "deviant" while appearing as a private citizen on a local tv show.
Homosexual behavior, in my view, is deviant," he [Robert Smith] said. "I'm a Roman Catholic." Smith said his comments had been part of a discussion about a proposed ban on same-sex marriage. "The comments I make in public outside of my [Metro board job] I'm entitled to make," he said. His personal beliefs, he said, have "absolutely nothing to do with running trains and buses and have not affected my actions or decisions on this board.
Ehrlich is desperate to portray himself as a "moderate" in Lefty Md. But this move is highly immoderate. Who wants to bet the ACLU declines to get involved in this obvious breech of free speech?
