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When The Catholic Church Knowingly Hires Active Gay Employees


Recently, the Catholic Church in the United States has been hit with a series of lawsuits from fired former gay employees over the conditions of their terminations. For the most part, these gay men and woman were hired when the parish, school, or church organization knew full well that they were active homosexuals. Only, when they decided to marry, or their homosexuality became widely known to the public, were they then let go. The plaintiff from the Seattle case has repeatedly stated that administration and staff at the school where he worked were at first “supportive” of his decision to marry another man; confirmed by the hundreds of students walked-out of classes in protest. This speaks to a very dangerous sort of lazy and prideful form of Catholicism: which under-pressure will half-heatedly support Catholic doctrines, but in private, will follow their own misaligned consciousness.

“A motion to dismiss a lawsuit against Eastside Catholic School by an administrator fired in December 2013 after his same-sex marriage came to light has been rejected by King County Superior Court in Seattle. In a ruling read from the bench, Judge Catherine Shaffer said it did not appear that proceeding with the case would interfere with the school's First Amendment rights…” According to the layers for the fired administrator: “Eastside Catholic was aware that Plaintiff had a domestic partner at the time Plaintiff was hired as vice principal of Eastside Catholic.” The gay administrator also served as a Eucharistic minister and lay reader at mass.

“Colleen Simon, a former employee of a Catholic food pantry in Kansas City, Missouri, was fired earlier this year [2014] by her religious superiors because she is gay. Now Simon is fighting back, suing the diocese and claiming that her bosses were aware of her sexual orientation long before she was let go.”

“For the past four years, Flint Dollar has been teaching music at Mount de Sales Academy, a Catholic school in Macon, Ga. He is, by all accounts, beloved by his students. But Dollar won't be leading the band or teaching the chorus in the fall. His contract was not renewed after administrators found out he plans to marry a man. He says when he was hired, he was honest with school administrators about his sexual orientation.”




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