Deviant Speech Defined When Maryland Governor Robert Ehrlich fired a transportation official at the urging of gay rights groups, he was replaying an act of capitulation that has already taken place in education circles. “Homosexual behavior, in my view, is deviant,” Metro Transit authority appointee Robert J. Smith said on an after-hours cable TV broadcast. “I’m a Catholic,” Smith explained. “The real issue here is the right of government employees to voice their religious convictions with impunity,” William Donahue of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights says. “Moreover, Robert Smith’s remark is so innocuous that, up until recently,...