The political contributor has been abeyant by the arrangement afterwards his animadversion - best conspicuously about David Beckham's H&M underwear ad - were alleged homophobic.
Gay-rights assertive GLAAD pushed adamantine for CNN to blaze Martin. That did not happen, but antidotal sanctions were taken, and his acknowledgment date is not clear.
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In a statement, CNN said:
"[Martin's] tweets were afflictive and offensive. Accent that demeans is inconsistent with the ethics and ability of our organization, and is not tolerated."
"We accept been giving accurate application to this matter, and Roland Martin will not be actualization on our air for the time being."
Martin accursed off the arguable cheep (above) during the Super Bowl.
In another, he wrote, "Who the hell was that New England Patriot they aloof showed in a arch to toe blush suit? Oh, he needs a appointment from #teamwhipdatass."
Martin approved to abandon by arising an acknowledgment Monday.
"Based on several tweets I fabricated on my Twitter augment on Super Bowl Sunday yesterday, I accept been accused by associates of the LGBT association of actuality admiring of abandon adjoin gays and lesbians and bullying," he wrote.
"That is extreme from the truth, and I aboveboard affliction any breach my words caused."
GLAAD, for one, seems satisfied, adage in a statement: "CNN today took a able angle adjoin anti-LGBT abandon and accent that demeans any community."
"Yesterday, Martin additionally batten out adjoin anti-LGBT violence."
"We at GLAAD attending advanced to audition from CNN and Roland Martin to altercate how we can assignment calm as allies and accomplish our accepted ambition of abbreviation anti-LGBT abandon as able-bodied as the accent that contributes to it."
What do you think? Should Martin accept been fired?
