Teacher suspended, reassigned for anti-gay Facebook comments (OrlandoSentinel)
Mount Dora High School's Teacher of the Year was suspended from the classroom and reassigned pending an investigation by the Lake County School Board after controversial comments he made about same-sex unions on Facebook.
Jerry Buell, a long-time Lake County social studies teacher, said during a recent Facebook exchange that he "almost threw up" in response to a news story about legalized same-sex marriage in New York.
On the same July 25 Facebook post he said same-sex marriages were part of a "cesspool." He went on to call the unions a sin.
The comments were made on Buell's personal Facebook page but were visible to friends in his network. Buell argued he made the post on his own time on his personal computer.
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