You silly, silly simple man...
Posted on 10/23/2015 10:19:00 AM PDT by marshmallow
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A Virginia man said the bishop of a local Catholic diocese forced his removal from the top job at a diocese-owned assisted living home because he's gay and married to his partner of 30 years.
John Murphy filed a discrimination claim against the Catholic Diocese of Richmond with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission last month. He said he served as executive director of the Saint Francis Home in Richmond for about a week before two deputies of Bishop Francis Xavier DiLorenzo told him that he was being fired because his marriage goes against church doctrine.
Murphy was terminated without severance pay and he and his husband, a retired clinical social worker, are relying primarily on Social Security benefits to get by, he said. The 63-year-old lifelong Catholic said the incident has shaken his faith in his church.
"I thought I found a safe place where I could do good and I won't be judged and I won't be ostracized," Murphy said. "People being discriminated against because of who they love, when it has nothing to do with their performance, is outrageous."
Diana Sims Snider, a spokeswoman for the Catholic Diocese of Richmond, declined to answer specific questions about Murphy's charges, saying she cannot comment on personnel matters. But she said the diocese sees it as a First Amendment issue and expects its employees to uphold the teachings of the church, "including the values that are consistent with the sanctity of marriage."
"We expect that a Catholic organization or any religious organization should be able to follow the teachings of our faith," said Snider. "We are saying: this is what we do as Catholics, this is what we expect of our employees because this is what we believe to be true."
The Saint Francis Home's day-to-day operations....
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Shrug.
I’m Protestant and wouldn’t throw a tantrum if they wouldn’t give me a job because of it.
Oh dear. Now where’s my Give a Damn meter.
(searching, searching)
Sounds like the board at the home were wrong when they told this man his relationship would not impact his hiring. It’s not like he was a long term employee who had been “married” for a while. He was a new hire who had been misled. Sue the board members who misled him.
He was looking for an easy lawsuit. As a “lifelong Catholic”, he knew as well as anyone the Church considers his “marriage” is a violation of Church doctrine.
Well, the Catholic Church is a private, religious organization that has the right to enforce its strongly held moral convictions in its hiring.
The choice was this guy’s to live counter to their teachings...and he knew it.
Okay.
Oh, he'll be judged.
So?
OF course then you open up the box of worms for KNOWN gay priests who were protected and hidden in the church by SOME of the hierarchy...
and in other news:
“Jewelry store refuses to hire kleptomaniac!”
If he'd been strong in the faith he'd be celibate, or occasionally stray, confess and try to sin no more.
So, Nu? Now playing the GAYSTAPO card.
You silly, silly simple man...
I certainly hope his claim is true and irremediable.
Well, I should hope so.
Notice how judgey gay catholics are?
gee. what a shame.
Wow, the Catholics are in a bind over this one.
On one side: accusations of discriminatory hiring practices.
On the other side: A homosexual among a bunch of people who are easy prey for predators.
It sounds from the story that he'd been honest about his personal life with those interviewing him, and they had told him it wouldn't be a problem. But when word got back to the power-that-be at the diocese then they overruled the board. Since the diocese owns the facility then they make the rules. So the fault lies with those who gave the man assurances they were in no place to give.
I have no idea if a court will agree with that, but that's how I see it.
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