Another #LGBTQ person fired, this time from two positions, as a teacher and a parish music minister, and also pressured to sign a "gag order" in order to collect his severance. Here, he explains to his students and those in his parish what happened...
The targeting of LGBTQ people in the Catholic Church must stop. It destroys lives, as well as communities. No other group in the church is targeted in this way....
Usually LGBTQ employees are fired because their lives do not "fully convey or support church teaching" (as one archdiocese requires). But by this measure, Catholic institutions would have to fire all Protestants, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists and agnostics...
....as well as Catholics who use birth control, use IVF, or do not attend Mass every Sunday; and then, more basically, all employees who do not care for the poor, love their neighbors or forgive. The selective focus on the sexual morality of LGBTQ people is discriminatory.
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