Homophobic Mayor Loses Her Day Job

Very true. We also have the right to believe as we wish. However, people elected to office need to understand that they represent everyone, not just the people they like. Putting personal prejudices aside is a prerequisite for anyone running for a political office. Unfortunately conservatives do not feel this way.

I've got a friend in real estate and he has admitted that outside of politics, the real estate business is one of the most politically correct sectors in America. A real estate agent is legally not permitted to even entertain a request from a client to see houses in an all white, or all black or all whatever neighborhood.

But this is a free speech issue whether you like it or not. No one would have been fired for making a comment like this thirty-five years ago. Free speech in America is dead and the politically correct gay mafia has won.

"No one would have been fired for making a comment like this thirty-five years ago."
what's your point?
oh wait, there it is
"Free speech in America is dead and the politically correct gay mafia has won."
and yet, here you are being ignorant and saying what you like without fear of repercussion.
so you would like to go back to the good old days.
shit, let's just go back to 1900 when you could get your head split for having the wrong last name, a nose that was too big or the wrong color of skin.
it's called tolerance and progress.
stick around for awhile and pay attention. you'll get the hang of it.

Why is it ignorant to say that the politically correct mafia is mostly dominated by gays when it is the truth?

Who is saying anything about hurting someone because they are different? Not me...

it's your "truth", that doesn't make it actually true.
you're just baiting and you know it.

Also I was thinking about what you said about people being fired from their jobs for simply saying something or having an opinion as being "progress."

That doesn't sound like "progress" to me, that sounds like something that would happen back in the dark ages. What's next? Witch trials?

the progress part is where one opens their mind and tosses out the stereotypes that keep people thinking it's ok to segregate and hate based on some pre-conceived notion of what "truth" is.....
like "all polacks are lazy, cheap and stupid" because you once had a lazy, cheap and stupid polack on your street.
you can say whatever you want to say, but when you're a mayor, representing many ethnicities, religions or backgrounds, you pay for not representing ALL.
you can say whatever you want to say, but when you work for a company that has a policy of acceptance and tolerance and you know about that policy, well, maybe you get shown the door.
maybe no one ever told you, but we are responsible for our actions and the effects they have on others

Except that the mayor wasn't calling anyone "lazy, stupid cheap."

Sure I admit that as a mayor it was stupid and somewhat distastful that she used the slur of "queer" (a term that some gays have embraced by the way), but aside from that she merely voiced her opinion on gay marriage, something that people from all walks of life are doing on a daily basis.

She got fired for her opinon, but you attacked me for using the term gay mafia, which I use to describe the militant homosexual lobby groups of which their existence and actions are based on facts.

actually, the part that i find offensive is her willingness to deny people their right to be together, legally, and have the benefits that the hetero couples have, just because she doesn't like their sexual tendencies, that happen to be legal.
she did more than merely voice her opinion. she shot herself in the foot when she didn't think that maybe some of her clients would be offended by her views. her boss did what any employer would do. he cut her loose because she was going to hurt his business.
perhaps we all have views that go against someone's belief system. most of us know the two tenets required for survival though.
1. if you can't say something nice, shut the fuck up.
2. if it's not harming anyone, what's the problem? (see number 1)

and i didn't attack you for saying gay mafia - if their were such a thing there might be fewer attacks on gays -
i just said it was an ignorant thing to say.

This will be my last post on this because we obviously aren't even agree to disagree. I certainly respect everyone's opinion and people are free to believe what they want to believe, but I just don't see what the mayor said as denying anyone anything.

She merely mouthed off her opinion about gay marriage on Facebook. What someone writes on Facebook ican hardly be construed as a codification of law or even a declaration of intent.

And in my opinion, the only rule that everyone can live by is the golden rule: do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

The key word being "do," not "say."

and as an elected representative of the people, her "saying" is what people end up "doing".

posting on facebook is the same as pasting a notice on the wall of a public place.

she should try the golden rule herself.