Prof fired from Mormon school for criticizing anti-gay initiatives

Courtesy poynter.org: A philosophy instructor at LDS-run Brigham Young Univ. was fired four days after the Salt Lake Tribune ran his op-ed saying it was immoral to oppose gay marriage or support the campaign for a constitutional amendment to ban it. The letter from BYU Department of Philosophy Chairman Daniel Graham said in part:

Since you have chosen to contradict and oppose the church in an area of great concern to church leaders, and to do so in a public forum, we will not rehire you after the current term is over.

Only the saddest institutions react this way to indirect public criticism. The equivalent would be if you were forbidden to go to Giants games because you criticized Barry Bonds. (In fact, that's just what happened to Giants broadcaster Hank Greenwald in 1999.)