When Marriage Gets You Fired
Dec. 20th, 2013 06:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tiggymalvern
The Vice Principal of a local school has married his same sex partner, as Washington state law allows him to do. Because the school he worked for is a Catholic school, he has now been forced to leave his job, for failing to uphold the teachings of the church.
His case is not the first. There have been more than a dozen like it around the US in the last couple of years. It strikes me as being something of a bizarro-world, in which the Catholic Church is willing to let people live in sin, but marrying the person you love is a firing offence.
The good thing about this incident is that the pupils aren't willing to let him go quietly. They have staged sit-ins at the school and demonstrations at the City Hall. If the Catholic Church plans to have any future at all, these teenagers are it, and the old men in charge had better start listening. People in Washington State won't shut up in the face of Rome's idiocies.
His case is not the first. There have been more than a dozen like it around the US in the last couple of years. It strikes me as being something of a bizarro-world, in which the Catholic Church is willing to let people live in sin, but marrying the person you love is a firing offence.
The good thing about this incident is that the pupils aren't willing to let him go quietly. They have staged sit-ins at the school and demonstrations at the City Hall. If the Catholic Church plans to have any future at all, these teenagers are it, and the old men in charge had better start listening. People in Washington State won't shut up in the face of Rome's idiocies.
