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Court Rules Catholic School Wrongfully Fired Gay Substitute
Crux ^ | 9/6/21 | AP

Posted on 09/10/2021 6:33:52 PM PDT by marshmallow

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina — A gay substitute teacher was wrongfully fired by a Catholic school in North Carolina after he announced in 2014 on social media that he was going to marry his longtime partner, a federal judge has ruled.

U.S. District Judge Max Cogburn ruled Friday that Charlotte Catholic High School and the Diocese of Charlotte violated Lonnie Billard’s federal protections against against sex discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. Cogburn granted summary judgment to Billard and said a trial must still be held to determine appropriate relief for him.

“After all this time, I have a sense of relief and a sense of vindication. I wish I could have remained teaching all this time,” Billard said in a statement released Friday by the ACLU, which represented him in court. “Today’s decision validates that I did nothing wrong by being a gay man.”

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TOPICS: Catholic; Current Events; Moral Issues; Religion & Culture
KEYWORDS: cogburn; homofascism; homosexualagenda; obamajudge; obamajudges

1 posted on 09/10/2021 6:33:52 PM PDT by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

Anus fetish isnt something that should protected by court.


2 posted on 09/10/2021 6:35:57 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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Judge Cogburn, Obama appointee.


3 posted on 09/10/2021 6:38:19 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: marshmallow
personalize_cute_rainbow_car_magnet_10_x_3.jpg (240×240) Gorsuch will make it mandatory
4 posted on 09/10/2021 6:38:44 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: marshmallow

“Court Rules Catholic School Wrongfully Fired Gay Substitute”

Why is it so damn hard to keep these men away from kids?


5 posted on 09/10/2021 6:49:15 PM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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To: All

Wait so he wasn’t gay?


6 posted on 09/10/2021 6:50:36 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Free Chauvin)
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To: BobL

because instead of beating them with baseball bats we allowed them out of the closet starting about 50 years ago and now many of them are judges ...


7 posted on 09/10/2021 6:53:55 PM PDT by bankwalker (groupthink kills ...)
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To: marshmallow

s/b wrongly hired him


8 posted on 09/10/2021 7:04:33 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Olog-hai

Gaydar pegged on max.


9 posted on 09/10/2021 7:05:09 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: marshmallow

Such suits have failed at the highest levels before I think this is just an activist judge and church will win on appeal.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. These sodomites will keep trying. They must be resisted.


10 posted on 09/10/2021 7:10:08 PM PDT by Persevero (I am afraid propriety has been set at naught. - Jane Austen )
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To: reg45

Nice wig, though!


12 posted on 09/10/2021 7:23:40 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (20 years on Free Republic, 12/10/20! More than 3700 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: marshmallow

I believe the SCOTUS has already ruled on a matter like this that a church / religious organization has the right to set criteria for its staff.

They should immediately appeal this.


13 posted on 09/10/2021 7:27:23 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: marshmallow

I think I know why the judge ruled this way. Simpatico.


14 posted on 09/10/2021 8:16:25 PM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: Olog-hai

Someone make a wig out of Newt Gingrich’s hair?


15 posted on 09/10/2021 8:50:41 PM PDT by Bikkuri
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To: marshmallow

“Today’s decision validates that I did nothing wrong by being a gay man.”

Fool. Everything you do is wrong and all of it will be revealed thirty seconds after death. Won’t be fun.


16 posted on 09/10/2021 9:23:28 PM PDT by Falconspeed ("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson.)
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To: Falconspeed

…he’s a substitute for another guy…
…he was born with a plastic spoon in his mouth…


17 posted on 09/11/2021 1:03:38 AM PDT by .44 Special (Taimid Buacharch)
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To: BenLurkin
Anus fetish isnt something that should protected by court.

We don't have a particular denomination as an "established church" as in the UK, but sodomy is now the official religion of the United States.

So it's still against the Constitution? They don't care.

18 posted on 09/11/2021 11:23:44 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a "slippery slope" if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: marshmallow

Thanks, Gorsuch and Roberts. You unleashed this demonic monster.


19 posted on 09/12/2021 5:01:51 AM PDT by fwdude (If you don’t think you are in a battle w/ the culture for your children then you are already losing.)
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