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trotsky

(49,533 posts)
Wed Jun 24, 2015, 01:53 PM Jun 2015

Catholic teacher comes out days before she retires

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2015/06/24/catholic-teacher-comes-out-days-before-she-retires/

The teacher at St Mary’s High School in Kitchener, Ontario, said she feared coming out openly while working at the school, as that would leave her open to “hateful projections of people who deem being gay an abomination”.

She also knew she wanted to stay within Catholic schools, to help and support young LGBT Catholics who might otherwise never receive that support.

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Her sexuality was something of an open secret – she says “I never felt put down” – but she always feared discussing it openly after a gay male friend was fired from his job at a Catholic school after marrying his partner.

But now, she says: “I’m proud to have represented my board. I’m proud to have represented LGBTQ students. Now it’s time to represent myself more honestly.”
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Catholic teacher comes out days before she retires (Original Post) trotsky Jun 2015 OP
Here in America we have miliions of church goers, pastors, and just all around randys1 Jun 2015 #1

randys1

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1. Here in America we have miliions of church goers, pastors, and just all around
Wed Jun 24, 2015, 01:59 PM
Jun 2015

good ole boys who are promising some sort of civil disobedience if told they have to NOT be bigots.


I hope they do, I wanna see what happens, gonna tune it in to my big screen tv and have a great time.

I am so sick of you bigots, I hope you push real hard.

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