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doxydad

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Thu May 29, 2014, 04:03 PM May 2014

Catholic Church forces woman to leave job after gay marriage is revealed

Colleen Simon insisted on performing her job this week out of devotion.

On Wednesday, she managed a delivery of 2,000 pounds of food for the pantry at St. Francis Xavier Church. It’s work she sees as fulfilling God’s will, his call to serve.
She couldn’t let the food spoil.
But apparently, that is not the way the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph sees her role. Not anymore. Not after it was publicized that Simon is gay and married to another woman.

Simon’s job unraveled in a horrible confluence of unintended consequences that ran into the Catholic faith’s hypocritical stand on homosexuality.

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2014/05/14/5024092/catholic-church-forces-woman-to.html#storylink=cpy

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Catholic Church forces woman to leave job after gay marriage is revealed (Original Post) doxydad May 2014 OP
That's really terrible. nt el_bryanto May 2014 #1
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