not to butt in here, BUT ... if the fired teacher had her mother’s obit list her lesbian partner as such, there is a public profession, a proclamation if you will, of a relationship that is presumed to be sexual in nature.
Whether it’s sin or not, whether they engage in homosexual activity or not, the teacher engaged in what her employer and her employment contract consider dismissable amoral behavior.
Why do you claim the school/diocese would have to prove with witnesses, apparently eye witnesses in your view, that they actually engaged in homosexual behavior when they have published it existence?
Presumed by whom? Whose presumption has the force of law? I don't believe these are necessarily settled areas of the law. Certainly a determined attorney can build a case and I think that makes for an interesting matter which is my only point in all of this discussion.