Out there in Washington, late last year, Eastside Catholic High School’s openly gay, and newly legally married, Vice Principal Mark Zmuda was given a choice: divorce his husband or be fired.
Love won out, so Zmuda was fired.
But rather than the story simply withering and dying, some of the students and faculty at ECH protested the treatment of Zmuda. In fact, they protested for months into the new year and ultimately caused the school president Sister Mary Tracy to resign. And now Mark Zmuda has filed a lawsuit against the school and the Seattle Archdiocese for discrimination and wrongful termination.
The Archdiocese has already drafted a motion for dismissal, claiming that Zmuda knew his marriage went against the teachings of the Church and against school policy. But, yeah, so would the divorce they urged him to get to save his job, no?
And would you like another but? From the ECH website:
“Eastside Catholic School does not discriminate on the basis of an employee’s or applicant’s race, religion, creed, color, sex, age, national origin, disability, marital status, sexual orientation or any other status or condition protected by local, state or federal law.”
Huh? What?
Funny thing is, though, this particular passage has been scraped clean off the school’s website, though everything, everything, lives on in the interwebz.
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