"If someone spoke out loud and publicly back in the 60's and said that Blacks should NOT stay in the back of the bus, and subsequently got fired from their job in the Public Relations department of a large corporation, would you claim their rights had been violated?"

BBruce, my first reaction to that was "DUH?!" It's still my reaction. Do you really think I'm that stupid?

No, of course I wouldn't say their rights were violated. This is NOT apolitial thing for me although I realize some folks have to look at everything to see if it agrees with their politics before they look at the specific issue.