Jerry Buell's Fredom Of Speech

I'm sure you've all read about the Jerry Buell story. If not here's a qiuck refresher. A high school teacher was taken out of the classroom and placed into an administrative job after posting a gay-bashing statement on his facebook page. He has since been placed back into the classroom. The message read:
 

“I’m watching the news, eating dinner, when the story about New York okaying same sex unions came on and I almost threw up. And now they showed two guys kissing after their announcement. If they want to call it a union, go ahead. But don’t insult a man and woman’s marriage by throwing it in the same cesspool as same-sex whatever! God will not be mocked. When did this sin become acceptable???”….
“….I will never accept it and refuse to condone it or shut my eyes to it. It is an insult to the marriage between my wife and I. We are married, don’t know what the heck those people call it but it ain’t a marriage…

Unlike most Americans I do not feel like this was a question of free speech, he obviously can say whatever he wants whenever he pleases. You may not like it but thats just part of living in the United States. I do however think that this was a question of morals. It is okay to have your own personal feelings but there are some professions that morally force you to not use and abuse certain rights. Just follow me for a second, it leads to a valid point.

A journalist cannot write stories with purposeful biased, a police officer cannot make false arrests because he has a personal vendetta, and teachers should not be able to openly express any views that can possibly hurt or badly influence any of their students. Think about it! If a teacher believed that 9/11 was a conspiracy would you want him teaching that to your child? Its the same kind of situation just a more controversial subject.

Its kind of hard to think that gays and gay marriage is still frowned upon in this day and age but its even harder to think that freedom of speech is still freedom of speech even when hurts a huge group of people.  This case should have been considered bullying or making some hate statement. And he really wasn't punished.

I want to know your opinion on this case.