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Did ABC have advertisers pull out? Was their some financial reason for firing him? Wasn't he pretty popular/well liked as a character on the show? If so, I think its ridiculous. This country has lost its mind when it comes to political correctness. You should not lose a job/career because you feel a certain way about people. If he constantly berated gays in the media, sure, its a pattern, I could understand. However, this guy made essentially a slip up, apologized, sat down w/ the community, etc, and he still lost his job.
Listen, I wouldn't try and tell a company what to do with their employees. If ABC legitimately said "well this doesn't fit in with our values, etc, etc" then I'm ok with it. However, I'm not sure they did so. I think their actions are more a byproduct of the absolute freak-out and reactive nature of our society when it comes to controversial things like this (See: Imus). Of course, all the blame can't go to places like MSNBC and ABC, after all, its the American public who are the ones getting huffy calling for someones head, simply because we don't agree with their viewpoint.
There was a big stir in Atlanta the other day because John Rocker went to bat for Gary Sheffield and his racist comments...Rocker said basically: "Listen, this is America, you have the freedom to not like someone, you have the freedom to say you don't like them, and you don't even have to have a legitimate reason why." If firings and controversy can be broken down into financial motivations or image concerns, go right ahead. However, I don't really see ABC as a pillar of morality in an ethically bankrupt society.
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