Lesbian Catholic school AD forced out of job after marriage

I'm not happy with it, but her actions were a known breach of contract, so tough luck. She shouldn't have been teaching at a Catholic school if she has a problem with what they ask of their employees. I am certain I wouldn't expect a Catholic school to allow me to marry my boyfriend and at the same time be a Catholic role-model.

 

I don't agree with what they did, but I have to agree that they did have the right. The fact that they let her teach there for 12 years while being openly gay and with a partner speaks loudly that they were unusually tolerant in the first place. It's only after she took a pretty controversial step that they fired her. It sounds like she understood what that would mean for her job in the first place, so she should have been prepared. The church had the right to stand up for their policies, even if it's not something I would agree with personally.

Now if a state run school had done this I'd be angry, but there's a reason church and state are seperate.

 

For one thing, gay marriage is a hot issue right now and one that's likely to cause the church the most trouble from it's members if they ignored the issue. Like it or not, that's the issue the religious public cares the most about right now.

From a religious standpoint, I would assume the rationalization is something along the lines of:
"Those actions listed in the above quote are each one private sin and are issues that can be dealt with quietly by each individual person involved. Gay marriage is a publicly viewable lifestyle of sin and we can't have someone setting that kind of an example for our kids."

I don't necessarily believe that the gay lifestyle is a sin. (I have my own beliefs on the matter, but that's besides the point.) It's just from a religious standpoint, that's where I would be coming from in their position. Of course, if they really felt that way, why hire her in the first place?