Ehrlich slammed for firing official for speaking out against homosexuality

By Jon Ward and Tarron LivelyTHE WASHINGTON TIMESJune 23, 2006
Maryland Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. is receiving criticism nationally and locally for his decision last week to fire a Metro Board member who said in a public forum that he thinks homosexuals are "persons of sexual deviancy." "Mr. Ehrlich is using his power as governor to declare that a tenet of the Catholic faith is a form of bigotry. That's a bigoted act on Mr. Ehrlich's part," said Robert Knight, director of the Culture and Family Institute of Concerned Women for America, a national Christian group based in the District. "Shame on Governor Ehrlich for capitulating to this kind of pressure and dismissing a good man who was doing a good job," Mr. Knight said.