An Ohio news station employee was fired for posting a joke about “straight pride” in response to LGBTQ Pride Month in June.
“Celebrate straight pride,” the posts says. “It’s natural, it has worked for thousands of years, and you can make babies!”
Madonna Chism Pinkard posted this joke during Pride Month. (Photo: “The MLO Bros” Facebook page)
Madonna Chism Pinkard had worked as the WFMJ TV station’s community relations director, in Youngstown, Ohio, since 2004.
The Facebook account of podcast “MLO Bros” posted about the meme she shared and Chism Pinkard commented, “Thanks for getting me fired.” The screenshot posted by MLO Bros appears to show it was posted on Chism Pinkard’s personal Facebook account, although WFMJ said her post was “on a company-linked social media site.”
The TV station affiliated with NBC issued a…
