I'm gay and don't want to patronize bigots. Thanks, Supreme Court - Los Angel Tim

Contents:

• 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
• COMG OUT CLASS: WHEN TEACHERS TELL STUNTS "I'M GAY"
• LETTERS TO THE EDOR: I’M GAY AND DON’T WANT TO PATRONIZE BIGOTS. THANKS, SUPREME COURT

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

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.

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

“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. “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.

Comg Out Class: When Teachers Tell Stunts "I'm Gay"Teacher Talks wh First-Grars It began as a classroom discsn about fai.

Acrdg to prs acunts of the exchange, Gaa told the children that he is gay, and that he liv wh a partner, "someone you love the way your mom and dad love each other.

COMG OUT CLASS: WHEN TEACHERS TELL STUNTS "I'M GAY"

" When a stunt asked if he liked beg gay, Gaa rpond that was a hard qutn to answer, but that he was proud of who he was. "My pot is, the same standards of discretn should be applied for homosexual and heterosexual teachers, and therefore the same standard of tolerance and rpect should be applied. " A Tough Call For Teachers For gay and lbian teachers, the cisn to talk wh kids about their sexual orientatn is seldom an easy one.

" On the other hand, this teacher believ, is entirely appropriate for young children to learn what the words "gay and lbian" mean. "What Do Gay Mean? " Tips for Talkg wh Young Kids It's ironic: While parents are ually more ncerned about younger children's exposure to homosexualy, ltle kids are ls likely to grasp what means than olr stunts are.

Some suggtns for parents om Eleanora Villegas-Reimers, associate profsor of human velopment at Wheelock College Boston: DO iate a nversatn wh children if you know they've had classroom discsns about what means to be gay. Ignorg the issue sends children the msage that homosexualy is somethg that shouldn't be discsed.

LETTERS TO THE EDOR: I’M GAY AND DON’T WANT TO PATRONIZE BIGOTS. THANKS, SUPREME COURT

" DO talk about "different kds of fai, " and clu gay and lbian fai wh a mentn of divorced and sgle-parent fai, multicultural fai, etc. "Even if you don't embrace the homosexual liftyle, the fai do exist, " says Villegas-Reimers.

(Kent Nishimura / Los Angel Tim) To the edor: I wonr if the LGBTQ+ muny realiz that the Supreme Court lg favor of a webse signer who didn’t want to create weddg s for gay upl n work our favor as well.