The students who signed the petition should be suspended for excercising their right to free speech? Didn’t A&E just suspend someone for their exercise of free speech?
Yes.
“The students who signed the petition should be suspended for excercising their right to free speech? Didn’t A&E just suspend someone for their exercise of free speech?”
The context is this is NOT a public school, but a private one. By signing this petition a student is directly going against the values the school wishes to uphold, presumably the parents sent these to the school so inculcate the Catholic faith and what these kids advocate goes directly against that faith. I think an assembly, more than one it sounds like, is absolutely necessary to explain to the kids why this was done, and frankly for the administration to apologize to them for NOT doing the work of teaching why homosexual behavior is wrong.
the school may well be partly at fault too for hiring the guy in the first place. a) I DO know Catholics who are homosexual, who do their very best NOT to act on their same sex attraction, and try and avoid practising homosexual acts. They struggle with their crosses like we all with ours. b) and that said do we also want to automatically “punish” all gays by automatically not hiring them? What if you had a guy that was a faithful Catholic (to the best of his ability to avoid homosexual practices) but was a good math teacher? You probably give him the benefit of the doubt. And maybe this school knew the VP was gay, BUT did not know that he was pursuing homosexual activity? Do we want go send out questionaires every month or so? They took a chance.
Now, if they KNEW that he had no intention of keeping a chaste life, they should NOT have hired him in the first place. If they knew he was living a gay lifestyle, but hired him anyway, they need to apologize to the parents AND the students for putting up with it, or hiring the guy. But let us say they did not know, but in this case the attempt to create a “gay” marriage it becomes crystal clear that the guy was not living up to the school’s moral clause.
Just like, presumably they’d fire someone for drugs or a teacher advocating abortion or other grave activities that go directly against the church’s teaching.