Gay teacher loses job at Skutt in what alumni's petition calls discrimination (E petition)

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E petition here: https://www.change.org/p/skutt-catholic-high-school-end-employment-discrimination-against-mr-eledge-and-future-faculty?recruiter=272545011&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=share_page&utm_term=mob-xs-share_petition-custom_msg&fb_ref=Default

As of now the petition has 27,440 supporters

http://www.omaha.com/news/education/gay-teacher-loses-job-at-skutt-in-what-alumni-s/article_d8d231e1-a5f9-5694-a36d-882e59fe7600.html

POSTED: TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 2015 6:00 PM
By Julie Anderson / World-Herald staff writer

Several Skutt High alumni have posted a petition on the website change.org asking the Catholic school to end what they see as discriminatory employment practices against gays.

According to the petition, Matthew Eledge, an English teacher and a speech coach at the school, was told his teaching contract would not be renewed next year after he informed administrators of his decision to get engaged to his partner, a man.

Kacie Hughes, a 2012 Skutt graduate who’s now a junior at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, posted the petition Tuesday. By the end of the business day, it had garnered more than 10,000 signatures and was being circulated through social media.

Hughes, an assistant speech coach at Skutt, said Eledge OK’d the posting. The two are friends outside of school. Eledge, who was returning from a trip Tuesday to a national collegiate speech tournament in support of other former students, could not be reached immediately for comment.

FULL story at link.

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Thank you Steve.

So much for the Pope's statement a few years ago about being accepting. Instead, the Catholic Church has decided to continue with its hate.

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