LGBTQ at work: Why this Catholic school fired a gay guidance unselor

Contents:

• COURT SIS WH CATHOLIC SCHOOL THAT LET EMPLOYEE GO OVER HER GAY MARRIAGE
• FIRED GAY TEACHER WS LAWSU AGAST CATHOLIC SCHOOL AND DCE
• GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
• THOUGHTS OM A GAY TEACHER A CATHOLIC SCHOOL
• 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
• LGBTQ VS. RELIGN: HOW A GAY GUIDANCE UNSELOR'S FIRG ULD AFFECT LNS OF WORKERS
• A TEACHER FIRED OM A CATHOLIC SCHOOL FOR BEG GAY HAS REACHED A SETTLEMENT
• A GAY MIC TEACHER GOT MARRIED. THE BROOKLYN DCE FIRED HIM.
• CAN A RELIG SCHOOL FIRE A GAY TEACHER? IT'S PLITED.
• A GAY NEW YORK TEACHER WAS FIRED OM A CATHOLIC SCHOOL AFTER MARRYG HIS PARTNER

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

A North Carola gay teacher who was fired om his job as a substute at a Catholic high school has won his sex discrimatn se fedral urt.

Today’s cisn validat that I did nothg wrong by beg a gay man. “The fendants [the school and the archdce] said that they fired Billard not bee he was gay, but rather bee ‘he engaged “advocy” that went agast the Catholic Church’s beliefs’ when he publicly announced he was marryg another man, the lg said. 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.

A junr high teacher yearns to be a posive gay role mol her Catholic school.

FIRED GAY TEACHER WS LAWSU AGAST CATHOLIC SCHOOL AND DCE

It is about homosexualy. You see, I am gay, and I am a Catholic school teacher. When you are raised a two-parent nservative Catholic fay where your mom stayed home, the channel is changed on the TV when a uple starts kissg, and the word sex was never uttered out loud, the word gay meant happy but nothg else.

Homosexualy? As other people do not choose to be heterosexual, I do not choose to be gay.

Some of my iends thk I'm a ltle crazy to stay a relign that do not outwardly accept gays. I long for and pray for the day when psychology and relign agree that homosexualy is not a choice.

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

I have always honored that, but is gettg more difficult bee I want to assure those my classrooms who have gay dads or moms or uncl or sisters that is OK.

It is time to put a face on the posive gay role mols our society. The relign book has the followg to say about this issue: "The church regniz that homosexual persons, like all persons, have been created God's image and have digny. However, nmns homosexual acts and nsirs them to be stctive of the fay stcture society.

I am gay. Jt a few days later, the nearby Cathedral High School — which is also Catholic — announced that would fire a teacher who was openly gay after beg threatened wh the same rult by the archbishop.

THOUGHTS OM A GAY TEACHER A CATHOLIC SCHOOL

Catholic lears have been firg gay employe for a while. The bate Indiana is only the latt chapter an ongog ntroversy over gay Catholic employe that stretch back several years.

The followg year, at least two openly gay teachers were eher fired or nied jobs at Catholic schools. While some stutns attempted to change polici after the firgs garnered media attentn, Catholic lears and admistrators generally jtified their cisns by potg to the techism of the Catholic Church, which refers to "homosexual tennci" as "objectively disorred. Even as rank-and-file Amerin Catholics exprsed outrage at the firgs, however, a subtext emerged: Catholic lears were not necsarily probg the private liv of their employe, but appeared primarily ncerned wh whether their employe were gay public.

In 2015, for example, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, head of the San Francis Archdce, distributed a new handbook for teachers at Catholic schools unr his purview stctg them to rea om "visibly" ntradictg the church’s teachgs on homosexualy and other issu such as abortn or birth ntrol. Catholic learship has sce argued that this clus posns held by teachers, and as such exempts them om nondiscrimatn laws that might otherwise bar firg someone simply for beg openly gay.

WHY ARE CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FIRG GAY TEACHERS, AND HOW N ONE REFE?

Some of the more proment firgs of openly gay teachers at Catholic schools have sparked phback, but the se at Brebf has elevated a new bate about church thory. A versn of this story appeared the July 12-25, 2019 prt issue unr the headle: Firg gay teachers, or not, is plited. Barton told the Denver Post that the jtifitn merely add further nfn given that appeared at odds wh Pope Francis’ recent msagg that “beg homosexual isn’t a crime, ” even if ’s still a s.

GAY TEACHER AT CATHOLIC SCHOOL APPEALS FOR AN END TO THE FIRG OF LGBTQ CHURCH WORKERS

Catholic schools fire gay teachers for beg gay all the time, but some say they look the other way on other ss.

LGBTQ VS. RELIGN: HOW A GAY GUIDANCE UNSELOR'S FIRG ULD AFFECT LNS OF WORKERS

Stop if you've heard this one before: a Catholic school fired a well-liked teacher for the "s" of beg gay. Ft says that gay teachers are beg targeted, and argu that her firg is clear anti-LGBT discrimatn. Crics ask: why do gay sners get fired, but other sners get a ee pass?

This is hardly the first time a relig school has fired a teacher for beg gay. But do they have the right to specifilly target gay people?

A TEACHER FIRED OM A CATHOLIC SCHOOL FOR BEG GAY HAS REACHED A SETTLEMENT

Ft argu that her firg is not jt an example of failg to uphold Catholic valu, but of specific discrimatn bee she is gay – potg out that that there are plenty of sng teachers at the school. I don't unrstand why me beg gay is any different then those thgs. Should Catholic schools face phback for routely targetg gay teachers, while lettg other ss sli?

In an say published by Ameri, Le Janicki, a gay Catholic English teacher at Kennedy Catholic High School, Burien, Washgton, articulat the stggle workg for a Catholic stutn light of the forced rignatn of two fellow LGBTQ tors, Michelle Beattie and Pl Danfort:.

“As a gay Catholic teacher, I have spent much of my life a prer balance.

A GAY MIC TEACHER GOT MARRIED. THE BROOKLYN DCE FIRED HIM.

Growg up a Catholic fay, gog to Catholic schools, I know what is like to balance my ep-seated valu as a practicg Catholic wh the dictat of beg a discerng gay person potentially averse environments. “If the church ntu to say that gay Catholics nnot work church stutns, is really sayg that they mt live dishontly or leave the church.

We have been imagg fuller gay cln for a long time. School fir an openly gay teacher to keep s fundg. The Catholic techism teach that “homosexual acts are trsilly disorred, ” but also that LGBT people “mt be accepted wh rpect, passn, and sensivy.

CAN A RELIG SCHOOL FIRE A GAY TEACHER? IT'S PLITED.

Joseph Catholic Amy LaBan said he did not keep his sexual orientatn a secret at work, although he “didn’t make a big al of my weddg at all” bee he was aware of church teachg on homosexualy. I was rpectful that regard, but people knew I was gay.

A GAY NEW YORK TEACHER WAS FIRED OM A CATHOLIC SCHOOL AFTER MARRYG HIS PARTNER

More about Liam StackA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 21 of the New York edn wh the headle: Brooklyn Dce Fir Gay Teacher Who Wed. ”The archdce — which is also beg sued by a gay teacher who was recently fired om a different Catholic school Indianapolis — claims that has a “nstutnal right to hire lears who support the schools’ relig missn. "The issue of gay tors beg fired by or exclud om employment at relig schools is not new, and sce 2014, several s have e before the urts.