Posts Tagged ‘Employment Discrimination’
Catholic School Fires Lesbian Who Is “Perfect Example Of Living A Religious Life”
A Catholic elementary school educator in the Philadelphia area has been fired because she legally married another woman in 2007. This first-known firing case since the U.S. Supreme Court legalized marriage equality across the nation has an unusual religious exemption twist to it. Philly.com reported that Nell Stetser, the principal of Waldron Mercy Academy in Merion, a Philadelphia suburb,…
Read MoreCatholic School Teacher Outed In Mother’s Obituary and Fired, Students Rally Support
Carla Hale was fired from her job as a physical education teacher at Bishop Watterson High School, a private Catholic school in Columbus, Ohio for being gay. She was not out to her students, but when her mother died, her partner, Julie, was listed as her spouse in the obituary. That was enough to have her…
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