"Fired Gay Band Director at Catholic School Reaches Settlement." (School Pays Gay Band Director.)

[mdgspencer]

see valdostatoday.com/2015/08/fired-gay-school-band-director-catholic-school-reach-settlement/
In an ominous development for Catholic institutions in the United States, Mount de Sales Academy, a Catholic high school in Georgia for girls, found it best to pay off the gay band director it had fired after he sued the school. He had been fired after he disclosed he was marrying another man. In Georgia it is not against the law to fire someone for being gay. But the Obama Administration’s Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charged the school on the novel grounds of gender discrimination. This case suggests that gay employees may be able now to successfully sue Catholic schools and other religious institutions with the federal government’s help when they are dismissed, though it is done to protect their Catholic identity and beliefs.
More information about this case is at www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/obama-administration-catholic-school-upholding-marriage-is-sex-discriminati

 

[Sy_Noe]

“Dollar, an openly gay man, said he signed a new contract May 1, 2014, to teach at the private school in Macon for the 2014-2015 term. He has said he told the school of his plan to marry his partner in October 2014, and that no one at the school objected.”

“The school, he maintained, has accepted beliefs and behavior by heterosexual employees who violate or do not adhere to the church’s teachings, including those on marriage. Those include the employment of heterosexual faculty members who lived together while not married, those who were divorced and those who had divorced and remarried. The school also has employed non-Christian faculty members, including those who were Jewish, Buddhist, atheist or agnostic.”

“The complaint says Dollar complied with the school’s Professional Excellence Standards during his employment at Mount de Sales. The school’s faculty handbook doesn’t require teachers to be members of the Catholic church, and it doesn’t require any faculty members to adhere to the church’s teachings on marriage.”

“The handbook says the school is an equal employment opportunity employer and strives to comply with laws prohibiting various kinds of discrimination, including sexual orientation and marital status.”

macon.com/news/local/article30241788.html

 

[MarcoPolo]

He has said he told the school of his plan to marry his partner in October 2014, and that no one at the school objected.

If that is true, does that make a difference legally? If an employee happens to tell the HR director he plans to get intoxicated and drive drunk in the future and the HR director laughs, does the employee have some kind of immunity because the business didn’t “object” at the time it was said?

 

[ServusHumilis]

Will someone sue Obama already for failing to follow US law?

 

[boomerang]

How are Catholic schools going to survive in the future without nuns and priests to teach? Depending upon lay people from all walks of life isn’t working. Perhaps Catholic schools should shut down completely, and open very small schools in each parish for the children of parishioners only, taught by parents and religious/lay brothers and sisters. This is just getting stupid.

 

[mjs2001]

“The school, he maintained, has accepted beliefs and behavior by heterosexual employees who violate or do not adhere to the church’s teachings, including those on marriage. Those include the employment of heterosexual faculty members who lived together while not married, those who were divorced and those who had divorced and remarried. The school also has employed non-Christian faculty members, including those who were Jewish, Buddhist, atheist or agnostic.”

If true, the band director has a point! It sounds like a Catholic school “in name only” and therefore it cannot honestly argue that it fired him because of a commitment to hire only faithful Catholics as teachers.

 

[Sy_Noe]

If that is true, does that make a difference legally? If an employee happens to tell the HR director he plans to get intoxicated and drive drunk in the future and the HR director laughs, does the employee have some kind of immunity because the business didn’t “object” at the time it was said?

That was a small part of the article.

 

[Sy_Noe]

“The school, he maintained, has accepted beliefs and behavior by heterosexual employees who violate or do not adhere to the church’s teachings, including those on marriage. Those include the employment of heterosexual faculty members who lived together while not married, those who were divorced and those who had divorced and remarried. The school also has employed non-Christian faculty members, including those who were Jewish, Buddhist, atheist or agnostic.”

If true, the band director has a point! It sounds like a Catholic school “in name only” and therefore it cannot honestly argue that it fired him because of a commitment to hire only faithful Catholics as teachers.

Honestly my familiarity with Catholic schools goes back awhile and I do not have more recent experience with any. But I didn’t think this school would have been the only Catholic school to employ people who were not faithful Catholics.

 

[Dwyer]

We have to lobby our state legislatures and also the U.S. Congress to get exemptions for Catholic Schools for these lawsuits from fired school teachers.

If these ex-teachers understood the Truth about the Objective Evil they have pursued in their lives, they would be thanking the Catholic schools for firing them or for giving them an opportunity for repenting and changing their lives and turning to God.

Why teach at a Catholic School if you’re not even going to make a minimal attempt to live a holy life? You got a Duty there to be more than a slob that sticks out like a sore thumb.

Go teach instead at the public school with all the hippies and union men and women.

But instead they hire some ambulance chaser and sue the Archdiocese for all its worth and get a big fat payout from the brainwashed secularized masses who make up the Juries or the Archdiocese is pressured to settle.

The only solution is lobbying our state legislatures to get exemptions for Catholic (religious) Schools for these lawsuits from fired Catholic teachers.

Otherwise, we’re going to ultimately lose control of our Educational system to a bunch of EEOC Bureaucrats and that is what Obama and all the Liberals want.

I think I’ll write my U.S. Congressman tomorrow.

 

[iDdraig]

We have to lobby our state legislatures and also the U.S. Congress to get exemptions for Catholic Schools for these lawsuits from fired school teachers.

If these ex-teachers understood the Truth about the Objective Evil they have pursued in their lives, they would be thanking the Catholic schools for firing them or for giving them an opportunity for repenting and changing their lives and turning to God.

Why teach at a Catholic School if you’re not even going to make a minimal attempt to live a holy life? You got a Duty there to be more than a slob that sticks out like a sore thumb.

Go teach instead at the public school with all the hippies and union men and women.

But instead they hire some ambulance chaser and sue the Archdiocese for all its worth and get a big fat payout from the brainwashed secularized masses who make up the Juries or the Archdiocese is pressured to settle.

The only solution is lobbying our state legislatures to get exemptions for Catholic (religious) Schools for these lawsuits from fired Catholic teachers.

Otherwise, we’re going to ultimately lose control of our Educational system to a bunch of EEOC Bureaucrats and that is what Obama and all the Liberals want.

I think I’ll write my U.S. Congressman tomorrow.

You need a :hug3:

 

[iDdraig]

If that is true, does that make a difference legally? If an employee happens to tell the HR director he plans to get intoxicated and drive drunk in the future and the HR director laughs, does the employee have some kind of immunity because the business didn’t “object” at the time it was said?

Marriage isn’t illegal or a negligent activity that puts the public at risk… drunk driving is. If the school was going to have any issue with his sexual orientation and upcoming same-sex marriage, then they should have objected during the hiring process. However, they claim to be an equal employment opportunity employer that strives to comply with laws so I am not sure what position they have.

 

[DrTaffy]

Why teach at a Catholic School if you’re not even going to make a minimal attempt to live a holy life?

Because you want to teach children and make their lives better, and because the contract and handbook said nothing about having to be an orthodox Catholic to teach there?

You got a Duty there to be more than a slob that sticks out like a sore thumb.

What is the point of unjustified insults such as ‘slob’ in that sentence?

Go teach instead at the public school with all the hippies and union men and women.

Again, why the insults?

 

[wild_thing]

Honestly, I don’t get some of these Catholic schools. If you want your school to uphold Catholic values, then freakin’ hold all your employees to that standard. Don’t pick and choose which Catholic virtues you’re going to ‘enforce’.

 

[bingbell484]

“The school, he maintained, has accepted beliefs and behavior by heterosexual employees who violate or do not adhere to the church’s teachings, including those on marriage. Those include the employment of heterosexual faculty members who lived together while not married, those who were divorced and those who had divorced and remarried. The school also has employed non-Christian faculty members, including those who were Jewish, Buddhist, atheist or agnostic.”

I would guess that is why the school decided it had better settle this.

 

[RACJ]

see valdostatoday.com/2015/08/fired-gay-school-band-director-catholic-school-reach-settlement/
In an ominous development for Catholic institutions in the United States, Mount de Sales Academy, a Catholic high school in Georgia for girls, found it best to pay off the gay band director it had fired after he sued the school. He had been fired after he disclosed he was marrying another man. In Georgia it is not against the law to fire someone for being gay. But the Obama Administration’s Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charged the school on the novel grounds of gender discrimination. This case suggests that gay employees may be able now to successfully sue Catholic schools and other religious institutions with the federal government’s help when they are dismissed, though it is done to protect their Catholic identity and beliefs.
More information about this case is at www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/obama-administration-catholic-school-upholding-marriage-is-sex-discriminati

This guy has no more right to teach at a Catholic school than I have to teach at a Muslim school. You don’t believe in Church teaching on something so fundamental, you don’t belong.

 

[RACJ]

Honestly, I don’t get some of these Catholic schools. If you want your school to uphold Catholic values, then freakin’ hold all your employees to that standard. Don’t pick and choose which Catholic virtues you’re going to ‘enforce’.

At the Catholic HS my girls attended, one teacher was rabidly pro-abortion. Then, there was one teacher who assigned the foul Dan Brown tome, Angels and Demons, rather than great Christian apologetic works. If I had to do it over, I’d have saved my money rather than send them there.

 

[ComplineSanFran]

How are Catholic schools going to survive in the future without nuns and priests to teach? Depending upon lay people from all walks of life isn’t working.

It isn’t working, and quite honestly, adding a ‘ministerial clause’ to teacher’s contracts is not going to help. It may or may not prevent legal action, but I honestly don’t see how non-Catholic teachers are going to agree to pretend they are conservative Catholics 24/7. The schools would have to monitor every action in school, in the public arena, and at home. Spy cams? Do you really want to go there?

The contract would have to include no homosexual relationships, no supporting homosexual relationships (including family members), no birth control use, no abortions, no fertilization assistance, no sexual behavior outside of marriage, no divorce and remarriage.

Would it also include attending mass on Sundays? If you are a Catholic ‘minister’, it would seem to be a requirement to go to Mass.

Telling a Jewish Spanish teacher to abide by all these things is not going to go over very well.

I think your idea of bringing back the nuns/priests is the only way to solve this problem. Only, there aren’t so many of them to take back the schools, are there?

 

[RACJ]

Well Folks, what SHOULD be the moral standards for people who teach in a Catholic school, if any? And should they be people who do not openly eschew Catholic doctrines? What is the point of sending kids to Catholic schools if there is no necessity for instructors to hold strong to the Faith, and for the institution to attempt to pass Christianity down to the next generation?

 

[Sy_Noe]

Honestly, I don’t get some of these Catholic schools. If you want your school to uphold Catholic values, then freakin’ hold all your employees to that standard. Don’t pick and choose which Catholic virtues you’re going to ‘enforce’.

I agree. Yet it would seems today the Catholic view in regards to homosexuality is one being picked and chosen by many of the faithful to emphasize more than others.

 

[estesbob]

The Problem is not that they fired him. The problem is that they hired him in the first place.