Personnel executive fired for anti-gay column says her 1st Amendment rights were violated
Qnews May 16 08Source: Gay People's Chronicle , Toledo Blade , Toledo Free Press Toledo, Ohio -- The University of Toledo administrator who claimed in a newspaper opinion piece that gay people can become straight and are not deserving of civil rights told a group of supporters Wednesday that her constitutional rights were violated when she was fired from the University of Toledo for writing the column. Crystal Dixon said she had a divine mandate to write the column for the Toledo Free Press as a private citizen and that she should not have been fired from her position as associate vice president for human. Full story...
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