Pro-family views cost ex-Marine a superintendent job in Berkeley
BERKELEY, September 19, 2012, ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – A former Marine’s views about the sanctity of marriage have cost him a job as superintendent of schools in Berkeley, California . Dr. Edmond Heatley withdrew after it became known he supported marriage. Dr. Edmond Heatley, who is African-American, had already been selected as the final candidate and resigned his position as a superintendent in Georgia when news broke that in 2008 he supported Proposition 8 , a pro-marriage state ballot initiative adopted by California voters that November. “The Berkeley School Board is engaging in blatant viewpoint discrimination by declining to hire an otherwise well-qualified candidate for School Superintendent , just because he supported Prop 8 ,” Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse , the founder of The Ruth Institute , wrote in a statement e-mailed to LifeSiteNews.com. Local media found a copy of a memo Dr. Heatley wrote when he led the Chino Valley Unified School District , which oppos