Christian Life Commission

If you are a professional of some kind, especially one who works for the public, be aware that the thought police may come knocking on your door if you ever express politically incorrect thoughts on your Facebook page. Just ask Vicki Knox.

She is a 49-year-old special education teacher for the Union Public School District in New Jersey. She has been suspended because, on her own time, in her own home, on her own computer she commented on her own faith and beliefs. Unfortunately for Knox, she commented on homosexuality. The comments went viral, and were sent around by parents and administrators. Many, including a municipal court judge, wrote to the school board asking for Ms Knox to be fired. Even Gov. Chris Christie got involved and publically denounced Know in a radio interview.

Knox was responding to a pro-homosexual bulletin board display at her school which celebrated homosexuality, lesbianism, and transgenderism as normal behaviors. Her Facebook posting has landed her in the middle of a political correctness firestorm. A photo was posted to her Bible group’s Facebook page of a school display board celebrating Lesbian Gay Bi Transgender History Month. Knox proceeded to comment on the picture saying that she couldn’t believe the school put up the display. She wrote on her Facebook page: “Homosexuality is a perverted spirit that has existed from the beginning of creation. I do not pretend to know ALL things. Nor do I pretend not to have biases, failings and faults. But I know sin and it breeds like cancer!” Knox’s opinion echos that of millions of fellow bible-believing Christians. Yet, to listen to groups such as Garden State Equality, you’d think that Knox was the first person ever to utter such blasphemously politically incorrent thoughts. GSE chairman, Steven Goldstein, responding to Knox’s comments, said: “I find what she wrote on Facebook endangers the learning atmosphere for students beyond repair and violates the school district’s own policy of a safe and comfortable environment for all. She’s no longer in a position to teach in the classroom because she will make many students fearful of her hatred.”

So much for tolerance.

The issue is not Ms. Knox’s views on homosexuality, but her first ammendment rights to express them. If Ms. Knox had been an athiest posting an anti-Chrisitan screed on her Facebook page, the same forces now condemning her would have charged to her defense.  How come people like Goldstein always champion the right for everyone to have an opinion and freedom of expression, until that is, that opinion disagrees with their own? When it does, it’s suddenly “hate speech.” No where in the Facebook exchange does Knox ever express hatred toward homosexuals, lesbians, or transgendered people. On the contrary she concluded by saying, “Christ draws us all through a love so vast and encompassing that our human minds continue to fail to comprehend…it.” Wow, God’s love can change people—even the homosexual. Now that’s hate speech if I ever heard it. (Said with tongue firmly in cheek).

Andy Rooney, long-time 60 Minuets commentator once said, “I think if you feel homosexuality is wrong, it is not a phobia, it is an opinion.” Apparently, not if you’re a bible-believing public school teacher who just happens to share her opinion on her own Facebook page. 

Think about it.