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• GAY TEACHER FIRED AT EASTSI CATHOLIC
• AFTER GAY VICE PRCIPAL DISMISSED, EASTSI CATHOLIC ALUMNI THREATEN TO PULL FANCIAL SUPPORT
• GAY VICE PRCIPAL DISMISSED BY CATHOLIC SCHOOL, 400 STUNTS WALK OUT
• SEATTLE CATHOLIC SCHOOL'S FIRG OF GAY TEACHER PS STATE LAW AGAST RELIGN
• COURT SIS WH CATHOLIC SCHOOL THAT LET EMPLOYEE GO OVER HER GAY MARRIAGE
• GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
• FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
• GAY MARRIAG CONONT CATHOLIC SCHOOL RUL
• CATHOLIC SCHOOL PRINT RIGNS AFTER GAY VICE PRCIPAL'S OTER
• FIRED GAY VICE PRCIPAL FIGHTG BACK AGAST SEATTLE-AREA CATHOLIC SCHOOL
• GAY TEACHER FIRED FROM CATHOLIC SCHOOL SHORTLY AFTER MARRIAGE CEREMONY (VIDEO)
• SEATTLE STUNTS PROTT GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER'S RIGNATN
• EASTSI CATHOLIC PRINT WHO FIRED GAY VICE PRCIPAL RIGNS

GAY TEACHER FIRED AT EASTSI CATHOLIC

When Eastsi Catholic High School end the employment of s vice prcipal for marryg his same-sex partner, joed a growg list of Catholic stutns that have fired gay employe for marryg, announcg weddg plans or advotg too enthiastilly for gay marriage.

The termatns — more than 15 across the untry the last two years or so — ntue, spe what appears to be a softeng by Pope Francis on a number of ntent church issu, cludg homosexualy and gay unns. While parochial schools and other Catholic stutns do hire gay people, many employe, particularly those schools overseen by dc, sign a ntract promisg to uphold the teachgs of the church as a ndn of their employment. Patterson said Zmuda’s same-sex marriage, not the fact that he is gay, is the reason he nnot work for the school.

AFTER GAY VICE PRCIPAL DISMISSED, EASTSI CATHOLIC ALUMNI THREATEN TO PULL FANCIAL SUPPORT

“We did not know he was gay before today, ” Leir said.

Sophia Cero, a hman at Eastsi Catholic, said most stunts support the rights of gays to marry. “We thk the le over gay marriage is totally unfair.

GAY VICE PRCIPAL DISMISSED BY CATHOLIC SCHOOL, 400 STUNTS WALK OUT

“He told he had gotten fired bee he is gay and married. A natnal gay-rights group nmned his termatn. “We are seeg greater acceptance (of gay marriage) Amerin society — among young people and among a majory of Catholics, ” Ree said.

SEATTLE CATHOLIC SCHOOL'S FIRG OF GAY TEACHER PS STATE LAW AGAST RELIGN

“The church isn’t gog to be celebratg gay marriage, but eventually people aren’t gog to be fired for this kd of thg.

Teacher at Catholic Highschool Fired for Marriage Friday December 20, 2013 Yterday, my neighborhood of Sammamish Washgton, a beloved high school teacher, Mark Zmuda, was fired bee he married his gay partner last summer and someone the Seattle Catholic Church Dce found out. Losg one's job bee of sexual preference might otherwise be illegal and excellent fodr for a law su if wasn't a CATHOLIC church and the teacher's ntract stipulated that he follow the doctre of the Catholic Church or be gay man, who was the vice prcipal at Eastsi Catholic School was a patient, lovg teacher. Some of them might have even been gay but then the Catholic Church is famo for the don't look, don't tell policy, jt look at the relign's history of pedophile prits.

Z spoke to the stunt body and then two female stunts ma the ultimate brave choice to stand up and tell the crowd that they are gay. I am absolutely aghast that someone, not yet an adult, had the bravery to stand up ont of their peers and qutn the Catholic Church's cisn to persecute gays.

COURT SIS WH CATHOLIC SCHOOL THAT LET EMPLOYEE GO OVER HER GAY MARRIAGE

Acceptance om the stunt body is pretty evint but is acceptable to be a gay stunt as long as you didn't sign a work ntract to say you won't be a gay teacher? Kids would leave their classrooms and meet the mons area to stand up for the right to marry the person you love, gay or not.

And Catholics do not embrace homosexualy and pecially not marriage, appears. The world is overpopulated, we n accept gay upl.

GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT

" Maybe the new Catholics of this world, the on who are still school, will embrace the gay liftyle, unlike Phil Robertson of Duck Dynasty fame who equat gays wh terrorists and is hot water this week for showg Ameri he is a redneck and a small-md person.

He's all over Facebook right now, dropped by his channel, A&E, and the subject of ntroversy for beg a gay-hatg bigot. For that to happen the whole huge Catholic Church would send a msage to the world that they now accept gay relatnships and that would be one gigantic miracle of enormo proportns. — Hours after hundreds of Catholic school stunts protted their vice prcipal’s dismissal bee of his gay marriage, alumni said they would stop fancial support if the school didn’t make amends.

“I read the story today about the firg of the Vice Prcipal bee he is gay, ” Eastsi Catholic alumni Jason Hilton wrote to the school velopment director Thursday afternoon. "Pope Francis ma the most progrsive Church statement on homosexualy this summer when he asked a reporter, “Who am I to judge?

FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG

” when asked about gay prits. The move helped make him Time magaze’s Person of the gay marriage was approved by the State Legislature 2012, Archbishop Sarta supported gettg signatur to back Referendum 74, which put gay marriage to a statewi vote.

A week before the electn, pro-gay marriage Catholics monstrated outsi St.

GAY MARRIAG CONONT CATHOLIC SCHOOL RUL

I jt want to make one brief statement and that is to tell you that y, I am gay. Eastsi Catholic School Sammamish appears to have solved a potential problem over a part-time mic teacher who says she is gay and plans to marry. A send teacher at Eastsi Catholic School has announced that she is gay and engaged to her partner.

CATHOLIC SCHOOL PRINT RIGNS AFTER GAY VICE PRCIPAL'S OTER

19 firg of Mark Zmuda, the school’s vice prcipal, after beme known he had married his gay partner. I’m not Catholic, I told them I wasn’t Catholic, but didn’t say anythg about not beg gay. I love those kids, even the on that don’t agree wh gay marriage, I still love them.

A vice prcipal at Eastsi Catholic High School was dismissed after school admistrators nonted him about his gay marriage, and more than 400 stunts had a s- Thursday morng. Peter Sarta the job of makg a group of Catholic nuns adhere to Church teachgs after those nuns supported gay Catholics and other social jtice a statement to KIRO 7, a school attorney did not specifilly addrs a recent orr om the lol Archdce. Sammamish, has about 950 Francis ma the most progrsive Church statement on homosexualy this summer when he asked a reporter, “Who am I to judge?

"I jt want to make one brief statement and that is to tell you that y, I am gay.

FIRED GAY VICE PRCIPAL FIGHTG BACK AGAST SEATTLE-AREA CATHOLIC SCHOOL

“This has nothg to do wh gay people, ” Patterson said. “The fact that he was gay has nothg to do wh this issue.

The church’s posn was pretty clear: they rpect gays, and they simply do not ndone sexual acts between same sex partners. The stunts who gathered support of Zmuda said that while he may have vlated his employment ntract, the actns of the school and the church betray J Christ’s foundatnal teachgs of love, tolerance and, they said, the school’s discrimatn is out of alignment wh a recent statement ma by Pope Francis, who told a reporter: “If a person is gay and seeks God and has good will, who am I to judge?

”Pope Francis was jt named person of the year by The Advote, the olst gay news magaze the US. More than a dozen gay employe of Catholic stutns the US have been termated for gettg married or supportg gay marriage the past two years.

GAY TEACHER FIRED FROM CATHOLIC SCHOOL SHORTLY AFTER MARRIAGE CEREMONY (VIDEO)

Standg solidary near the Archdce, Seattle mayor-elect Ed Murray said that as a practicg Catholic and a gay man, he believed the stunt protts reflected Catholic teachgs about social jtice and fay. WASHINGTON – A feral appeals urt has led that a Catholic high school Indianapolis was ee to fire a gay guidance unselor bee she performed at least some relig duti, the latt legal setback for LGBTQ+ rights when they nflict wh Fzgerald had worked for 14 years as a guidance unselor at Ronlli High School when school officials disvered she was married to another woman. Supreme Court cisn favor of a web signer who did not want to work for gay upl bolsters s fight the U.

Court of Appeals for the 4th Circu Richmond is an early tt of how that major Supreme Court cisn ptg ee speech agast anti-discrimatn laws will play out beyond the hypothetil suatn that se, which volved a platiff who had never actually ma weddg webs or been asked to do so by a gay person. “The Court rejected the dissent’s assertn that s cisn opened the door to discrimatn employment, ” ACLU attorney Josh Block wrote a reply to Becket’s the exampl raised the Supreme Court did not clu a relig anizatn or a gay employee, and Gorsuch repeatedly voked a 2000 cisn allowg the Boy Suts to expel a gay volunteer on “exprsive associatn” grounds.

SEATTLE STUNTS PROTT GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER'S RIGNATN

“We all said that thoands of relig anizatns all across the untry ask their employe to uphold their tradnal view of marriage word and ed, and if you terpret the statute that way, ’s gog to unleash lots of lawsus agast them, ” Goodrich the Supreme Court has specifilly said preventg racial discrimatn is a pellg ernment tert that jtifi rtrictg First Amendment eedoms, he noted that the Supreme Court has rejected such a fdg on discrimatn agast gay or transgenr people. Acrdg to the Archdce of Seattle-n school, Zmuda was fired not for beg gay but, rather, for marryg his partner this summer.

However bee of social media and the publicy we have gotten has turned to an effort to raise awarens about this subject of gay rights and hopefully schools will thk twice before dog somethg like this aga. I am not tryg to force my opns of gay rights on anyone. I am askg for a sort of tolerance om the church for those who are gay and married.

EASTSI CATHOLIC PRINT WHO FIRED GAY VICE PRCIPAL RIGNS

Gay marriage is seen as wrong the church, but so is gettg divorced and remarried, or premaral sex, or havg children out of wedlock.

My view on gay rights is simple.

Z, as the former vice prcipal, Mark Zmuda, is known, amid a wave of firgs and forced rignatns of gay men and lbians om Roman Catholic stutns across the untry, most s prompted not directly by the employe’ sexualy, but by their cisns to marry as same-sex marriage be legal an creasg number of month, the band and choir director at a Catholic school Oh was fired hours after he told the school’s print that he planned to marry his boyiend; December, a French and Spanish teacher at a Catholic school Pennsylvania was fired days after tellg his prcipal he was applyg for a marriage license New Jersey. At Eastsi Catholic, some stunts have taken to craftg banners wh the quotatn “Who am I to judge?, ” words uttered by the pope when asked about gay prits; others have been tryg to reach the pope via Twter, hopg he will somehow terce.