Dixon says termination violated free speech right

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Dixon says termination violated free speech right
Column written as 'divine mandate'

http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080515/NEWS21/805150352

By MEGHAN GILBERT
BLADE STAFF WRITER

Crystal Dixon told a group of supporters yesterday her constitutional rights were violated when she was fired from the University of Toledo for writing a column critical of gay rights in a local publication, she told a group of supporters at her church yesterday.

Ms. Dixon said she had a divine mandate to write the column, "Gay rights and wrongs: another perspective," for the Toledo Free Press as a private citizen and that she should not have been fired from her position as associate vice president for human resources at UT because of it.