ACLU defends teacher who posed with gun

Conservatives claim to be such great Second Amendment (and First Amendment) champions, but this story ought to silence these claims. (But you know it won't.)

Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, is in a Republican county, and the school district is run by conservatives. (What school district isn't?) But recently, the school system placed a middle school teacher on leave because she posed with a shotgun on her Facebook page.

The photo was not taken at school, and the Facebook page was not made using school computers. It was her personal Facebook page - and owning a shotgun is not illegal.

Despite this, the school system suspended her anyway - as if they can control what she does on her own time. Do you have to get permission from your employer to post anything on your personal website from your home computer?

Now the ACLU is quite properly defending the teacher. A statement from the ACLU of Wisconsin says that "public school teachers do not lose their right to free expression when they are not working."

Isn't this the same ACLU that conservatives just utterly hate? Why yes, as a matter of fact, it is.

Conservatives have lined up against an organization that opposes a school system that thinks it can keep employees in suspended animation. Not as if we didn't know whose side the conservatives were on, because the school system ain't exactly run by progressive populists.

(Source: http://www.wkowtv.com/global/story.asp?s=9802250&ClientType=Printable;
http://www.wkowtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=9781795&nav=menu1362_10)