Gay teacher fired from Catholic school for trying to wed partner

New York Daily News ^ | Dec 8, 2013 | Joel Landau

[Innovative]

An openly gay teacher at a Pennsylvania Catholic school was fired after applying for a same-sex marriage license.

Griffin, an alumnus of the Catholic school, told Philadelphia TV station NBC10 that the school knew he was gay and his partner had attended many school functions. He said he was blindsided by his firing.

The school's headmaster, Fr. James McCloskey, told the station that Griffin violated his contract and the school's policy by obtaining the license.

McCloskey did not return a request for comment from the Daily News. But he did tell the station, "Although, the school welcomes teachers from other denominations and recognizes their rights to religious freedom, as employees of a Catholic institution, all teachers are expected to uphold lifestyles compatible with the moral teaching of the Roman Catholic Church."

[fwdude]

The concocted word “gay” can mean just about a dozen things, including:
- that you experience same-sex attraction but you never act on it;
- that you repudiate your own same-sex attraction;
- that you want to act on these impulses in private; or
- that you are an activist pushing society in the direction of perversion, like this former teacher was.

The first two can be excused if the subject is sincere. The other conditions should disqualify him immediately.

[Godwin1]

It should have never got that far. If he was “openly gay”, it means that he was flaunting his unnatural lifestyle before innocent youngsters. Overt homosexuals have no business in a faith based school whose creed teaches that homosexual acts are intrinsically wrong and “disordered.” He should have never been hired.

[Mrs. Don-o]

If two guys are merely living together, there's no objective reason to think they are committing sodomy. Mere cohabitation of two males or two females is no crime and no sin, and straight people have same sex housemates, college roommates, share apts, etc. all the time.

But if they proclaim themselves "married", they are announcing that they're having some kind of sexual relations. That's where the Catholic employer has to draw a line: the two men have turned their "private" sexual arrangement into a public proclamation.

[batterycommander]

Hmmmm...I wonder if there are any gay clergy at the school. Maybe that’s how they found out that he was gay. Maybe he was recruited by a gay clergy at the school because he was gay.

[batterycommander]

I can see his lawyer cross examining the gay clergy at the school and winning big points in proving that he was recruited because he was gay. Results: BIG BUCKS.

[Slyfox]

“Oh, that’s my `fag deflector’!”

Yep.

[fwdude]

The article claims he was “openly gay”... so how come the church didn’t know?

Actually, the homo is the one claiming that the school "knew" that he was homosexual. Of course he's going to make this contention, because it bolsters his argument.