If you read gay news blogs you are bound to be hearing about the Miami Dade teacher Shawn Loftis who was fired for his former gay porn career.
Many are going to turn this into a claim that he was fired because it was gay porn. If it was straight porn he would have been fine. Although I understand the sentiment and the fact that the supervisor who wrote him up and caused him to be fired stated that he was being written up because he owns a gay website, I am not sure that is the full story. The write up for owning a gay website is extremely disturbing.
I did a little research after finding this story. In the first 6 pages of Google results for “Teacher fired for porn career” I found 4 instances of teachers being fired for a history of porn. Of these four, only 1 of them was fired for gay porn. I know there are a lot more cases and a significant amount of research may find that a disproportionate number of teachers fired for porn careers are gay, but it is apparent that both straight and gay porn stars get fired from teaching.
Therefore I am not appalled that a teacher was fired for his gay porn career. I am appalled that a teacher can be fired for doing porn in their past. Should every teacher who has ever smoked a cigarette also be fired? Smoking cigarettes is not a good role model for children. Or how about firing every teacher who has ever cursed? Maybe since they are using the morality argument fire every teacher who has ever had a divorce. Or every teacher who has ever had sex outside of wedlock.
We live in a society where if you do not follow the norm you are portrayed as a criminal who should not be around children. Teachers are people and just like everyone else they make mistakes and probably have some things in their past they are not proud of. This is not about children. This is about society punishing people who are different because if they are different there must be something wrong with them.