with his work. and as you pointed out in your interview with mike cox, how would you feel sitting there as a gay person or someone who respects gay rights, which includes a lot of people who aren't gay, and see this guy representing the state of michigan? because he's not a private lawyer. he is up there representing the entire state of michigan. and i think many people in the employer position, in mike cox's position, would say of course he can't represent the state of michigan because people who express those kind of hateful sentiments are not representative of my office or of the state. >> professor turley, what do you make of this? you're a big defender of the first amendment. >> well, first of all, i think that jeff is right about the trend that there certainly is more and more upheld restrictions on the free speech of public employees. on my blog i've actually detailed a lot of these cases involving police officers, teachers, a great variety of public employees.