SCOTUS Rulg May Be Tted After Gay Teacher Fired
Contents:
- CATHOLIC GIRLS' SCHOOL VLATED GAY MAN'S RIGHTS, COURT RUL
- GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
- GUIDANCE UNSELOR ‘HELD HERSELF OUT AS MISTER’: FERAL APPEALS URT SIS WH CATHOLIC SCHOOL FOR FIRG GAY EMPLOYEE
- SCOTUS RULG MAY BE TTED AFTER GAY TEACHER FIRED
- LGBTQ VS. RELIGN: HOW A GAY GUIDANCE UNSELOR'S FIRG ULD AFFECT LNS OF WORKERS
- WHY ARE CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FIRG GAY TEACHERS, AND HOW N ONE REFE?
- GAY TEACHER AT CATHOLIC SCHOOL APPEALS FOR AN END TO THE FIRG OF LGBTQ CHURCH WORKERS
CATHOLIC GIRLS' SCHOOL VLATED GAY MAN'S RIGHTS, COURT RUL
BOSTON (Rters) - A Boston-area Roman Catholic girls' high school vlated a gay man's rights when revoked an offer for him to work as director of food servic after he revealed on a form that he was married to another man, a state urt has led. Matthew Barrett last year sued Fontbonne Amy Milton, Massachetts, south of Boston, sayg had discrimated agast him when revoked a job offer ma 2013 after learng of his sexual school argued that as a Catholic stutn, had an obligatn for all staff to mol the valu of the church, which teach that homosexual activy is immoral.
"He was not nied employment for any advocy of same-sex marriage or gay rights; he only listed his hband as an emergency ntact on a 'new hire' form, " Wilks noted that Fontbonne also employs people who are not Catholic as well as those who are married outsi the church. State to legalize gay marriage.
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GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
In the wake of Wters' firg, many mentators have suggted that bishops and Catholic stutns need to show greater mercy and passn alg wh s lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr employe.
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 led 2020 that firg someone “merely for beg gay or transgenr” is illegal as sex-based discrimatn unr Tle VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Andrew Perez joed his high school’s gay-straight alliance (GSA) bee he believed Pope Francis’ msage of love for all people. “I was terted to hear Pope Francis say [gay people] are weled wh open arms, ” Perez, now a senr, says. “A lot of [gay people] are unr the imprsn that they are not accepted.
GUIDANCE UNSELOR ‘HELD HERSELF OUT AS MISTER’: FERAL APPEALS URT SIS WH CATHOLIC SCHOOL FOR FIRG GAY EMPLOYEE
A close iend has disclosed to Perez that he is gay, and Perez has openly LGBTQ relativ. ” “At Xavier, kids are openly gay and are accepted, ” Perez says.
And—spe Pope Francis’ softer tone on gays and lbians, and the June 2015 U.
GLSEN, the Gay, Lbian & Straight Edutn Network, is a natnal anizatn that provis rourc to improve the atmosphere for LGBTQ stunts gras K–12.
SCOTUS RULG MAY BE TTED AFTER GAY TEACHER FIRED
Growth om prev years roughly mirrored the untry’s signifint velopments the acknowledgment of gay rights. No easily accsible public rource—Catholic anizatn or secular gay advocy group—lists Catholic high school GSAs. Acrdg to Alexanr Lavy, a physics teacher who is openly gay and serv as one of three faculty advisers to Xavier’s GSA, this is why Xavier admistrators started the group: They wanted to create a safe school.
Admistrators rpond to the 2010 suici of Tyler Clementi, a gay Rutgers Universy stunt whose classmat filmed him an timate enunter wh another man and outed him onle.
The high-profile se drew natnal attentn to anti-gay bullyg and the shockg realy that gay and lbian teens are two to three tim more likely to m suici than other youths. But you hear kids llg each other ‘gay’ or ‘faggot’ as an sult.
LGBTQ VS. RELIGN: HOW A GAY GUIDANCE UNSELOR'S FIRG ULD AFFECT LNS OF WORKERS
“LGBTQ people are historilly people who get discrimated agast, who lose jobs, who sometim get abed or killed for beg gay. The Catholic Church fac a lite balancg act of upholdg two signifint teachgs, says Michael Maher, who has worked as a Catholic mp mister for many years and has rearched and wrten about gay and lbian stunts Catholic schools.
“The magisterium (the church’s teachg thory) do not ndone homosexual behavr, yet enurag the Christian muny to be welg and supportive to LGBTQ persons, ” he says. Bishops’ documents, Always Our Children (1997) and Mistry to Persons wh a Homosexual Inclatn (2006), highlight that balancg act. The former document is addrsed to “parents tryg to pe wh the disvery of homosexualy their adolcent or adult child” and acknowledg the “tensn between lovg your child as God’s prec creatn and not wantg to endorse any behavr you know the Church teach is wrong.
“The Church’s teachg on homosexualy is clear, ” asserts. Mistry to Persons wh a Homosexual Inclatn, the most recent U.
WHY ARE CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FIRG GAY TEACHERS, AND HOW N ONE REFE?
Bishops’ document addrsg homosexualy, highlights the nnectn between the morn ntext and the teachg of the Catholic Church.
“The phenomenon of homosexualy pos challeng that n only be met wh the help of a clear unrstandg of the place of sexualy wh God’s plan for humany, ” says. While rerc the church’s mment to human digny, the letter also clus a sectn many LGBTQ people and alli fd unfortable: “The homosexual clatn is objectively disorred, i. ” Bee of this, she explas, mp misters and chaplas are ccial addrsg all relatnship issu: homosexualy, premaral sex, habatn, divorce, and remarriage.
GAY TEACHER AT CATHOLIC SCHOOL APPEALS FOR AN END TO THE FIRG OF LGBTQ CHURCH WORKERS
Bishops were still discsg what rourc or documents they will create to addrs the legalizatn of gay marriage the Uned Stat. In the meantime, Sister Flemg is not nvced GSAs are the bt way for Catholic high schools to addrs homosexualy—not bee the church shouldn’t talk about sexualy, but bee of church teachg on the tegratn of the human person.
Maher chronicled Catholic schools’ wispread silence about homosexualy his 2001 book, Beg Gay and Lbian a Catholic High School: Beyond the Uniform (Routledge). The book is based on two stunt surveys and on his 1995 and 1996 terviews wh 25 gay and lbian adults who attend Catholic high schools the late 1980s and early 1990s.