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.
That's pretty vague. What exactly did the teachers do, and were children involved?
Nothing vague about this. The article says she posted photos and videos. Obviously online.
Freedom of association. I don't think companies can dictate what employees do off site on their own time.
They can especially if the employee agrees to those dictates.
Public schools can and have dismissed people for posting conservative memes. Or even for sharing their views privately.
Maris sounds like a clueless person. Probably thinks she is hip or adventurously discovering the vast world of humanness and is now a fascinating person.
Put her in a sewage pipe. She will learn much more about humanness.
P.S....once they posted activity this online(publicly) it was no longer on their own time.
*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.*
Oh come on! You’ve taught me that forgiveness is not in your bible-small ‘b’.
*We had a High School teacher was was denied a contract extension because she married a divorced man. This was late 70’s.*
*Your school sounded pretty messed up*
That was the 70’s. People evolve. This Baptist school hasn’t.
*In this case, the cure is worse than the disease*
Bingo!
I agree. Perhaps this was not the first time these teachers crossed the line.
I would argue that if attending a drag show was their first and only offence in 19 years, then firing them would have been overkill.
But I suspect there have been previous incidents which the school cannot disclose.
“These two showed a lack of judgment and good sense.”
Hey, I went to a couple of drag shows in San Francisco years ago. Finnochios I think. Maybe still there.
My point is that none of us that went were remotely interested or approving of their lifestyle. We didn’t think about that.
If they watched an R-rated movie with graphic murder, rape, torture, gore, and nudity. Yes. If they went to a burlesque show glorifying adultery, yes If M.A.S.H portrayed Klinger as a paragon of virtue who taught Korean boys how to dress like an American woman and was celebrated...yes.
Sorry to bust the fantasy that one can unsee or unremember bad things.
In the branch of Christianity I follow, a drag show is definitely considered "ungodly".
Jesus would have gone, but he wouldn’t have posted to Facebook, and it wouldn’t have been for “entertainment.”
Did you go out of your way to see the show? Did you pay for anything to see or procure at the show? Did you tell anybody about it before you posted it here? Could be tacit acceptance or approval. Think about it.
I credit Matt Walsh.
So simple, but absolutely spot on
The Truth doesn't.
Faggotry is always ungodly.
Not for a private Christian school.
Lawyers will have a heyday with this.
Where is "godly and moral fashion" defined? That is up to interpretation.
The contract says "Facebook." What if they posted on Instagram, Twitter . . . ?
"In my community." They were in Houston. Easy to say they were outside of their "community."
Wow. A lawsuit waiting to happen. The rule as written is unclear, unenforceable, and probably unconstitutional.
But teachers at a church-sponsored school? I have no idea what, if any contract the teachers have. I believe the Constitution is pretty silent on the subject of employment rights, although there are plenty of civil rights laws that do cover the subject. But the church could argue that their First Amendment rights would trump employment rights laws.
Bullcrap. They are teachers at a Christian School. If they went to a homo stage show, got photos made with the perverts, and put it on social media, that makes them unfit for their job at a Christian school.
As for watching MASH, Klinger was trying to run a scam, trying to prove he was insane so he would get removed from the war zone.
But nice try. And yeah, companies can indeed dictate what you do on your own time if it works against the company. It wasn’t long ago that a coke driver would get fired if he was seen drinking a pepsi. If you are an airline employee and you spend your off time with a group convincing people that airline has shoddy maintenance, you’ll be fired.
They are teachers at a Christian school, cavorting with perverts.
Regards,
Then why did you go to that show?!
Or were you completely oblivious?
Regards,
“Did you go out of your way to see the show?”
We drove from Palo Alto to San Francisco.
“Did you pay for anything to see or procure at the show?”
We paid to see the show.
“Did you tell anybody about it before you posted it here?”
Absolutely. Just like I occasionally tell people about a movie I saw.
“Could be tacit acceptance or approval.”
Back then Finnochios was just an entertainment place. No baggage.
The 2020 “ 7-2 decision on the combined Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Morrissey-Berru and St. James School v. Biel cases carry significant consequences for a legal doctrine known as ministerial exception. Former teachers sued the two Catholic schools in Southern California after losing their jobs, launching a fresh test of a 2012 high court decision and new tension between workers rights and church authority.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/08/supreme-court-teachers-religious-schools-352418
The Supreme Court just ruled on this three years ago, and reaffirmed a 2012 decision. Church schools can fire teachers who violate the religious positions and rules of the school.
their first and only offence in 19 years, then firing them would have been overkill.
Not really. Teachers, hanging out with pervert child molesters. Good call.
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