St. Mary's reverses policy on gay employment after backlash over rescinded hire

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St. Mary’s reverses policy on gay employment after backlash over rescinded hire
The St. Mary’s Academy board voted Wednesday night to change the school’s policy on hiring gay employees after facing backlash over the administration’s decision to rescind a job offer to a gay counselor.
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Students and high-profile donor Tim Boyle, CEO of Columbia Sportswear, had earlier condemned the choice not to employ 27-year-old Lauren Brown.
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In response, administrators brought the board together and recommended members vote to expand the hiring policy.
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ComplineSanFran said:
‘Them?’ The ‘them’ you speak of are your neighbors, your family, and your brothers and sisters in Christ.
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What is the proper term for those who are, promoting evil, fighting against the Church and against Church teaching?
 
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St. Mary’s reverses policy on gay employment after backlash over rescinded hire
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I suppose the key phrase in this snippet is “high profile donor”; in other words, the bottom line is at stake. This is disappointing but, of course, it’s not my business (in both senses). I can’t say what I would have done in a similar situation.

I’m neither opposed to gays’ equal employment nor to gay marriage. However, I am opposed to a religious institution’s being intimidated and feeling obliged to reverse its own policies with regard to hiring and firing. The latter procedure is the school’s prerogative, not the gay teacher’s or the government’s.
 
I predicted this would happen. Just saying - I TOLD you so!!!:D:mad:
 
Gain the world and lose one’s soul? Stay focused on God, people! If you can be bought for 20 pieces of silver, you CAN betray Our Lord.
 
This can no longer be considered a Catholic school. I hope they drop St. Mary’s from the name; she deserves better than the Sodom and Gomorrah the city, state, and country are turning into. We’re just asking to be destroyed and it will probably be ISIS that does it. All we can do is remain in a state of grace, something active homosexuals have no chance at.
 
My opinion depends on what the Academy means by “homosexual.” There is a huge difference between one who is attracted to the same sex and does not act on it, one who does act on it, out of weakness, but wishes to stop, and one who lives to act on it. I think it is prejudice and anti-Christian for a Christian college to reject an person based on same sex attraction alone.

Christi pax,

Lucretius
 
Lucretius said:
My opinion depends on what the Academy means by “homosexual.” There is a huge difference between one who is attracted to the same sex and does not act on it, and one who does act on it. I think it is prejudice and anti-Christian for a Christian college to reject an person based on same sex attraction alone.

Christi pax,

Lucretius
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The job offer was withdrawn when the woman in question informed the school she planned to “marry” another woman.
 
Elizium23 said:
The job offer was withdrawn when the woman in question informed the school she planned to “marry” another woman.
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Ahh, I see. Such a person shouldn’t be teaching, etc., since Lust destroys the intellect. It seems the college has chosen to be part of the World 😦

Let’s pray for Christian institutions to be loyal to God (and humanity for that matter) :gopray2:

Christi pax,

Lucretius
 
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Documents Brown shared with WW show St. Mary’s withdrew its job offer this month—and promised Brown a year’s salary and benefits to keep her quiet.
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Brown declined. “To sign a contract that’s going to affect the rest of my life, and my passion for advocating for LGBT youth and LGBT people—there’s no way I could sign that,” Brown says. “I could never live with myself.”
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Rescinding job offer to gay counselor doesn’t reflect St. Mary’s Academy spirit, students say
 
Folded like a card-table.

Way to stick to your guns, St. Mary’s. Well done.
 
Lucretius said:
Ahh, I see. Such a person shouldn’t be teaching, etc., since Lust destroys the intellect. It seems the college has chosen to be part of the World 😦

Let’s pray for Christian institutions to be loyal to God (and humanity for that matter) :gopray2:

Christi pax,

Lucretius
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This is a very high profile case and it is going to set a lot of precedents for Catholic schools. The Archbishop is against this, and the school may lose it’s Catholic status, but I highly doubt it. This is the wave of the future, sorry to say. Catholic schools are kind of strange anyway, since they allow any religion/or no religion students in them as long as they have the tuition. They can hardly stay pure with that policy.
 
CHRISTINE77 said:
This is a very high profile case and it is going to set a lot of precedents for Catholic schools. The Archbishop is against this, and the school may lose it’s Catholic status, but I highly doubt it. This is the wave of the future, sorry to say. Catholic schools are kind of strange anyway, since they allow any religion/or no religion students in them as long as they have the tuition. They can hardly stay pure with that policy.
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Catholic schools, at least in my neck of the Catholic woods, are also strange in the way they give tuition assistance to non-Catholics as well! Not good business model but when you have a CEO like Christ Jesus, you do things a little differently than the rest of the world! 👍
 
I know that in the USA it’s against the law to discriminate based on race, color, sexual preference, etc. Christians are supposed to obey the law right? So, I would guess that it’s wrong for a catholic institution to refuse to hire someone who is gay. :confused:
 
praestat_fides said:
I know that in the USA it’s against the law to discriminate based on race, color, sexual preference, etc. Christians are supposed to obey the law right? So, I would guess that it’s wrong for a catholic institution to refuse to hire someone who is gay. :confused:
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Wrong. The Supreme Court recently held in Hosanna-Tabor that religious organizations may use ostensibly discrimatory standards in personnel matters. This school was well within its legal right to unhire the woman.
 
praestat_fides said:
I know that in the USA it’s against the law to discriminate based on race, color, sexual preference, etc. Christians are supposed to obey the law right? So, I would guess that it’s wrong for a catholic institution to refuse to hire someone who is gay. :confused:
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Well, christians do not have to obey any human law that is against the divine law, the divine law takes precedence over human laws. Human laws that are against the divine law are no laws at all.
 
praestat_fides said:
I know that in the USA it’s against the law to discriminate based on race, color, sexual preference, etc. Christians are supposed to obey the law right? So, I would guess that it’s wrong for a catholic institution to refuse to hire someone who is gay. :confused:
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That may be true but an employer can elect not to hire someone who does not espouse the same values and intends on representing contrary values. It’s like Coke hiring a Pepsi executive knowing he/she will continue to publicly acknowledge Pepsi is better than Coke. While sexual preference IS protected under the federal law, so is the protection of religious observance. This is the challenge caused by the SCOTUS when they decided one civil right can override another civil right.
 
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