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.
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 she had no idea that advertising as a hooker would violate that clause either.
In other words, she is a liar.
Can someone explain to me the appeal of drag shows? Now, that seems to be the rage. Why not pretty girls dancing, rather than ugly men trying to imitate them?
They evidently pissed away a job they loved for absolutely nothing.
Surely Shirley Muldowney is angry. She’s the only drag queen.
“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?”
If so defined as immoral by their employer, they could be fired for watching an episode of Bosom Buddies.
“We should love everybody, and that’s what we’ve been teaching, but they’re expecting us not to do that,” she continued.
Sorry, but “loving everybody” does not equal “participating in their celebration of sin”, honey.
“why are drag shows supposedly ok for kids but not striptease shows?”
Tricky question. They can’t just say “exposed genitalia” because strip clubs in many areas require bottoms, and sometimes even nipple coverings. Yet children are still not allowed.
Incorrect as usual.
There is "no law" against a bunch of things and you can still be fired for them.
In this case they signed a contract saying that they would act in accordance with the rules of the church while in public.
I know this will astonish you because you are completely ignorant but going to sex shows is not in accordance to the rules of the Baptist Church.
Time for you to grow up and learn a few thing. Today, thanks to me you have learned one thing at least.
I doubt it will stick because... you are after all you.
LOL. Might work... “Jesus commanded us to go preach to the sinners, didn’t he?”
Why? I could see if they were showing it to the kids in school but this was on their own time. Do the teachers have a history of pushing this nonsense on their kids? The article didn't say.
If you side with the school on this matter, then anything a teacher does in their private life, including posts on social media can be grounds for dismissal. This means a public school can dismiss a teacher for posting conservative memes.
In this case, the cure is worse than the disease
Your school sounded pretty messed up
Maris hit it out of the park, when she said ,”she was treated like a criminal”, and that she would go back again to the show,, and that the music was great, and that “we gotta’get along”... I am almost positive the school was waiting for this clueless dope and her unnamed accomplice to break their contractual obligations.
“First Baptist Academy”
So there you have it. They should be fired if they see nothing wrong with attending a show featuring freaks and perverts. Totally not acceptable in a Baptist school.
That’s a pretty fair representation of what those teachers did to their career.
They weren’t preaching. Otherwise they would be in jail and really be treated like criminals.
Drag is to women what blackface is to black people.
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An amazingly accurate analysis if ever there was one.
Not really. You have to look at the contract and fulfill those obligations. You can’t just decide not to follow whatever you don’t like.
I know as a kid I would have been very interested in attending a striptease show, but a drag show would have been disgusting. Still would be.
Wow. A lawsuit waiting to happen.
The rule as written is unclear, unenforceable, and probably unconstitutional.
The school should know better than to write such vague clauses, which are subject to personal interpretation, in their contracts. And employees should at least ask questions before signing contracts which could put their jobs at risk for undefined and capriciously enforced violations.
I see both sides to it. They weren’t breaking any law, but they’re ‘at will’ employees as well and be can fired for pretty much anything.
As long as they weren’t showing videos in class or suggesting the kids go, or God forbid actually take students to one, it seems excessive to fire someone over it.
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