Texas Teachers Fired for Attending Drag Show in Their Own Time (Christian school)

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

Cristi Maris had taught at a Houston-area Christian school for 19 years—but that didn’t mean anything when the school abruptly axed her for attending a drag show during her time off. According to local reports, Maris went with a co-worker and her daughter to a drag show on July 13, and posted some photos from the event on Facebook the following day.

Shortly after, her employer, First Baptist Academy, called to let her know she’d been fired. The school tossed Maris and the co-worker for allegedly violating a section of the school’s manual requiring teachers to “act in a godly and moral fashion at work, on Facebook and in my community,” according to local TV station KTRK. “I feel like we were treated like criminals,” Maris told the station.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/texas-teachers-fired-for-attending-drag-show-in-their-own-time/ar-AA1ern57

[Irish_Dem]

1. It's like the rules for 19th century school marms.

We keep going back a hundred years.

[Johonny]

2. Cancel culture wrong unless they're doing it

BS cult factory

[BOSSHOG]

3. There is a trend

In this country where organized religion and their adjuncts don’t give a fuck about the separation of church and state. I’ll play along. Let’s do away with the separation. And turn loose the assessors.

The tax man got Al Capone.

Why should freedom hating zealots be able to hate and discriminate in the name of Jesus Christ and in a tax exempt status? I must ask WWJD?

This is the Land of the Free, Zealots. Open your doors freely to the assessors to level the playing field.

[Initech]

5. Yeah it's way past time to end the free ride!

[Initech]

4. The GOP is getting scarier and scarier.

Fuck these MAGA lunatics. If there is a hell, it waits for them.

[Effete Snob]

6. Good. Go find a worthwhile job

I don’t know what it is with people who want the money to push that nonsense agenda, and get upset when they find out that, yeah, they mean that shit.

[Martin68]

7. They should sue.

[Timeflyer]

8. Example of why traditional public schools are so important for a healthy democracy.

[RussBLib]

9. "act in a godly and moral fashion at work"

What nonsense. Impossible standards which would vary from one person to another.

Christian school is a frikkin' oxymoron.