[TheCrusader]

"The Governor's right to fire his appointees is absolute, checked only by the people come next election."

Two things:

(1). The Governor does not have the power or the right to fire an appointee for his personal religious beliefs, that's blatantly un-Constitutional and leaves him wide open to a lawsuit. If he chooses to let him go for some other, contrived reason then that's his prerogative, but he'd still be open to a lawsuit because the real reason for his firing would be quite clear.

(2). The governor hasn't fired him, yet; it's his homosexual pervert boss that wants him fired.

[bigLusr]

The Governor does not have the power or the right to fire an appointee for his personal religious beliefs, that's blatantly un-Constitutional and leaves him wide open to a lawsuit.

1. He hasn't been fired for his beliefs. He's been fired for expressing those beliefs on a radio show... making this a question of free speech, not free religion.
2. He has been fired, at least according to the Baltimore Sun.
3. Which part of the Constitution does it violate?
4. If Smith had been fired for running his own adults-only website with pictures of himself and the Governor's wife, would you still think the Governor would be open to a lawsuit for firing him?