The article says she was employed as a minister, but she said she wasn’t A minister. If that is her job title, she would be fired for not performing her job.
Why in neck would an Archdiocese hire a woman minister?
neck is heck autocorrected.
She is not considered an ordained minister, but all employees are considered lay ministers and are expected to demonstrate, or at least not contradict, the tenets of the Catholic faith while at work. Her homosexuality was not an issue if she kept it private and did not hold it out as an acceptable lifestyle. The minute she became public with it, she was directly contradicting church teaching and thus was failing in her lay ministerial duties.