A rally will be held today in support of Angela McCaskill, a university official suspended for signing a petition to let Maryland voters decide whether to reject a homosexual "marriage" bill passed by the state legislature.
The rally, organized by the National Black Church Initiative, will be held in front of Gallaudet University, the Washington, DC-based school where McCaskill had been employed for 24 years - until she was put on leave after signing a petition challenging the legislature's move.
Initiative spokesman Anthony Evans tells OneNewsNow the chief diversity officer's troubles began when the Washington Blade, a pro-homosexual newspaper, published her name as one of the people who signed the petition. (Earlier stories: Diversity officer seeks reinstatement, reimbursement - University official 'villianized' for conservative opinion)
"There's a lesbian deaf couple at Gallaudet University who saw that, reported it to the administration -- and there started the persecution of this Christian woman exercising both her right as a Christian and her right as an American," Evans explains.
Question 6 on Maryland's November ballot, if passed, would overturn the legislature's homosexual marriage bill. Evans believes Governor Martin O'Malley and Galludet president T. Alan Hurwitz are trying to make an example of McCaskill.
"Because they want Question 6 to pass," he tells OneNewsNow. "And so they have decided to make an example of her by persecuting this fine Christian, African-American woman and by not allowing her to exercise her constitutional and religious right of free expression."
Evans calls the school's actions outrageous, and vows that during the rally his organization will send a loud message to the school that McCaskill be fully reinstated to her job without making any concessions for signing the petition.