Posted on 07/27/2023 10:22:11 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
BAYTOWN, TEXAS – Two Texas teachers have been fired after attending a drag show in downtown Houston earlier this month.
Kristi Maris and an unnamed coworker were both let go after attending a drag show on July 13 at Hamburger Mary’s, according to multiple reports.
Maris, who has been a teacher at First Baptist Academy for 19 years, told KTRK that after she posted photos and videos of her visit to the popular venue, she and her coworker were fired.
“I feel like we were treated like criminals,” Maris said. “They’re entertainers. I would’ve never thought in a million years that this would happen. Never. We were in disbelief. We still are. We were heartbroken. We had relationships with parents and the kids, and I didn’t even get to say goodbye to a lot of the kids.”
According to KTRK, the school’s senior pastor said the teachers were fired because of a line in the school’s operating policies manual that states “I will act in a godly and moral fashion at work, on Facebook and in my community.”
Maris said she had no idea she was breaking that clause in the manual by attending a drag show.
“For almost 20 years, I’ve taught children to love each other. I’ve talked to them and told them, ‘You have to get along. God loves us all equally.’ And that’s the way we should be,” Maris told KTRK.
“We should love everybody, and that’s what we’ve been teaching, but they’re expecting us not to do that,” she continued.
Maris said that she is done with teaching at the moment but noted that she would attend a drag show again.
“It was too much fun, and it was good music,” Maris said.
KSAT has reached out to First Baptist Academy for comment.
These two showed a lack of judgment and good sense.
As teachers, they are criminals.
As teachers, they are criminals.
Queer pedophiles have infiltrated the school
I’m certain those teachers were deeply shocked, but yes, there are still a few parochial schools that mean what they say in that Teachers Aggreement they both signed.
What kind of Drag Show it was is not stated.
Good riddance. No telling how much leftist indoctrination they covertly fed to the children under their care.
This proves that even teachers can learn a thing or two.
I went to Catholic School from 1st to 12th grade.
We had a High School teacher was was denied a contract extension because she married a divorced man. This was late 70s.
In a public school this would have been a resume enhancer.
But if a teacher at ‘First Baptist Academy’ attended a strip show, and posted photos and videos of his attendance, would anyone be surprised that a Baptist school would fire him?
This poses a question for the alphabet folks, why are drag shows supposedly ok for kids but not striptease shows?
She should have mentioned on FB that they were there proselytizing
Plus low esteem in their womanhood, that they would go and enjoy their gender being mocked. Drag is to women what blackface is to black people
Says every pedophile.
Only because there was DANCING................
She didn’t think the employment policy applied to her? Or minimally that as an employee of a Church, it might not be wise to post online about being at a drag queen show?
And which I’ll bet they never read. Well, now they have.
That's pretty vague. What exactly did the teachers do, and were children involved?
I doubt they were around kids at the time or "dragging" kids with them to the show.
Would they be fired for watching an R rated movie, a burlesque show in Las Vegas, or an episode of M*A*S*H, where Klinger dressed as a woman?
Freedom of association. I don't think companies can dictate what employees do off site on their own time.
It’s their own time. The can do what they want. There’s no law against it.
Ever wonder why christians and catholics are so denigrated in the media? Marrying a divorced man? That’s public. Having sex with a married man is private-a lot harder to find out. Everyone go underground. Time for this school to grow up. The teachers have the media on their side, a good thing to go public.
“These two showed a lack of judgment and good sense.” It looks like their main offense — or, rather, the reason for their firing — was publicizing their attendance at and posting photos of the “performance” on social media.
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