Gay-rights activists are gathering at a New Jersey high school tonight to demand a response from board members after a teacher posted anti-gay remarks on her Facebook page.
Garden State Equality planned the demonstration to coincide with the Union Township School Board meeting.
Outrage over Viki Knox's comments erupted last week when a parent in the Union Township school district where she teaches saw the posts in which she described homosexuality as "perverted" and said it "breeds like cancer."
The parent forwarded it to an attorney who alerted the school district and called for Knox's firing.
A top administrator for the district said previously the complaints were being taken seriously and appropriate action would be taken. He did not comment on Knox's employment status.
Officials from gay rights groups said that although Knox's alleged anti-gay views are protected by the Constitution, she has a responsibility as a teacher to be a role model for students.
At the time, Garden State Equality issued a statement questioning Knox's ability as a teacher to enforce the state's new anti-bullying law. The law was signed in January and is considered among the toughest in the country for its requirement that schools have anti-bullying policies.
The law was adopted after the suicide last year of Tyler Clementi, a Rutgers University freshman whose roommate is accused of using a webcam to spy on his intimate encounter with another man.
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