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Gay Teacher Fired After Being Outed To Archbishop

A gay teacher was fired in the U.S. after someone outed them to the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, which oversees the school the teacher has been working for. 

The teacher was informed that his contract for next year will not be renewed after an unknown teacher raised “concern” about them to the office of Archbishop Dennis Schnurr, according to Lourdes Lambert, the principal of Archbishop Alter High School in Kettering, Ohio, where the teacher is currently employed.

Lambert still is not aware as to who the concern came from while confirming that it had nothing to do with any incident between the teacher and students at Alter. “It’s a very unfortunate circumstance for the teacher and the Alter community,” she said. “[But] Some things are taken out of our hands as an Archdiocese-owned school.”


As ‘Metro Weekly’ reports, every year, teachers who work for schools in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati sign a “teacher-minister” contract that includes an agreement to refrain from conduct that is “in contradiction to Catholic social doctrine or morals.” Examples of such behavior include, but are not limited to, “cohabitation outside marriage, sexual activity out of wedlock and same-sex sexual activity.” The contract also says promoting such conduct as acceptable is a violation.

Former student David Beck later wrote a Facebook post defending the teacher. “I attended catholic school for 13 years…and I can attest that Jesus would not approve of Alter High School or the Archdiocese’s treatment” of the teacher, Beck wrote. “On the contrary, Jesus embraced everyone and only taught love. … I almost thought that we were evolving beyond such drama, but unfortunately that is not the case.”

Jennifer Schack, a spokeswoman for the archdiocese, said the church “values all of our teachers,” but also noted that Catholic school teachers are expected to be “witnesses to the teaching of the Catholic Church in both word and deed.”


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