Terry Firma

Teachers at Catholic institutions in Ohio may be fired for “immorality.”  Sounds all right, until it comes to the definition of that word. 

Actually, recognizing disgusting behavior isn’t a problem at all for the easily piqued religious authorities who terminated Carla Hale.  Hale is a physical-education teacher who lost her job when her mom died and she included her female partner’s name in the obit. 

She’s taught at the school for two decades. 

Now, I agree that’s a great example of immorality.  But whose?  Hales’, or the Church’s? 

Students and others are rallying behind a teacher who they say was fired from a Catholic school in Clintonville [Ohio] after listing her female partner’s name in her mother’s obituary. 

A petition posted yesterday on change.org seeks the reinstatement of Bishop Watterson High School physical-education teacher Carla Hale.  It has gained more than 4,000 signatures. “ It’s unfair that someone who cared so much about her students and her job should lose them on the basis of something she cannot even control,” the petition says. “ The school claims its mission is to teach its students about love, acceptance, and tolerance, and yet it did none of this in the way it treated Ms. Hale.” 

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