Antigay Maryland official fired.MARYLAND GOVERNOR ROBERT Ehrlich in June fired a Catholic transit official who had said on television that homosexuality was "sexual deviancy sexual deviancy Paraphilia Psychiatry Sexual excitement to the point of erection and/or orgasm, when the object of that excitement is considered abnormal in the context of the practitioner's learned societal norms Types Exhibitionism, fetishism, frotteurism, ." Architect Robert Smith made the antigay remarks as a panelist on a local political program. A week later, at a Washington Metropolitan Area The Washington Metropolitan Area, formally known as the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV MSA is a U.S. Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) as defined by the United States Office of Management and Budget (OMB) as of November 2004. Transit Authority board meeting, District of Columbia District of Columbia, federal district (2000 pop. 572,059, a 5.7% decrease in population since the 1990 census), 69 sq mi (179 sq km), on the east bank of the Potomac River, coextensive with the city of Washington, D.C. (the capital of the United States). councilman Jim Graham said Smith should retract TO RETRACT. To withdraw a proposition or offer before it has been accepted. 2. This the party making it has a right to do is long as it has not been accepted; for no principle of law or equity can, under these circumstances, require him to persevere in it. the comments or resign from the board. Smith refused, telling reporters, "I'm a Roman Catholic." Ehrlich dismissed him the same day from the suburban commission he represented on the metropolitan board. "Robert Smith's comments ... are in direct conflict to my administration's commitment to inclusiveness, tolerance and opportunity," Ehrlich said. |
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