Ohio Catholic School Teacher Fired for Coming Out in Her Mother's Obituary

Girl_On_Fire · 04-18-2013, 10:44 AM

This is infuriating and illegal!

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/1...moms-obituary/

Rockinonahigh · 04-18-2013, 11:00 AM

This is so wrong,if we had leagle marriage this would be not a problem,BUT being it the catholic church nothing surprises me.

Corkey · 04-18-2013, 11:08 AM

If one wants freedom of religion, this is what will happen. Why she chose to work for the homophobes is beyond me. To publicly acknowledge her partner in the paper, baffling. The church isn't going to change, it has a track record of discrimination and it doesn't look like it will ever accept people based on their love for each other. She wont win in court because the church has a right to employ whom they wish. Does it make me angry, yes. But in reality perhaps she should have chosen to either teach somewhere else, or kept it to herself if she wanted to continue to teach in a catholic institution.

Girl_On_Fire · 04-20-2013, 05:51 PM

There's a petition if anyone is interested in showing support for Carla Hale's cause: https://www.change.org/petitions/dio...JqX_RLUwamNXDF

Nadeest · 04-20-2013, 06:16 PM

From what the article stated, she will win, if she files a lawsuit, due to Ohio's laws. I hope that she sues, and wins her job back, as well as damages, both actual and punitive.

Allison W · 04-20-2013, 08:20 PM

I gotta line up with Corkey on this one. It's bullshit, but I don't like the idea of giving these people ammo for their "THEY'RE TRAMPLING ON OUR FREEDOM OF RELIGION" whining. Moreover, I'm inclined to believe that a Catholic school is not going to be a good environment for an openly LGBT person to work in even if it's illegal for them to discriminate on such a basis. Then again, we are in a shitty economic environment where jobs are practically nonexistent, so... shit. That was really unfortunate.

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Nadeest Member How Do You Identify?: as myself Preferred Pronoun?: She Relationship Status: Single Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Leesburg, FL Posts: 595 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 2,876 Thanked 2,118 Times in 501 Posts Rep Power: 17077997	From what the article stated, she will win, if she files a lawsuit, due to Ohio's laws. I hope that she sues, and wins her job back, as well as damages, both actual and punitive.

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Allison W Member How Do You Identify?: TG Femme Preferred Pronoun?: She Relationship Status: Loner Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 366 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,414 Thanked 1,195 Times in 319 Posts Rep Power: 12203815	I gotta line up with Corkey on this one. It's bullshit, but I don't like the idea of giving these people ammo for their "THEY'RE TRAMPLING ON OUR FREEDOM OF RELIGION" whining. Moreover, I'm inclined to believe that a Catholic school is not going to be a good environment for an openly LGBT person to work in even if it's illegal for them to discriminate on such a basis. Then again, we are in a shitty economic environment where jobs are practically nonexistent, so... shit. That was really unfortunate.