Catholic Teacher Backs Gay Son, Quitting to Protest Contract

[MellowDem]

Veteran Catholic teacher Molly Shumate stared at the Cincinnati Archdiocese contract for next school year and thought of her son.

She remembered when a nervous Zachery Shumate, a teenager at the time, approached her and revealed his homosexuality.

His revelation prompted the first-grade teacher to give him a hug, telling her boy she would always love and support him.

So when the new teachers' contract – strictly forbidding public support of homosexuality – was handed to her earlier this year, she was torn.

http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/education/2014/05/09/catholic-teacher-backs-gay-son-quitting-protest-controversial-contract/8898181/

[Goacher]

1. So quitting IS the answer?

ARRGGHH. I so confused...

[skepticscott]

2. It would be

if more Catholics could muster up the same courage. Not sure what took this one so long, but good for them.

[rug]

4. How many catholics are Catholic school teachers?

[rug]

3. She quit her job not her religion.

[Humanist_Activist]

5. True, but she seems to put her children's needs ahead of those of the Church, that's a good...

first step on the road to recovery.

[rug]

8. It looks like she's putting her son over an employment contract.

The contract is not the Church.

[Humanist_Activist]

9. No, but it was approved by the Archdiocese. If she disagrees there...

Then it is possible that other disagreements will arise.

[rug]

10. There are a lot of things to disagree with this Archdiocese in particular.

[AtheistCrusader]

7. So far.

Honestly, there are much more welcoming Christian sects, on this issue.

[smartphone]

6. Reading the reader responses to this article is frightening

Both pro and con quote that book they call the Bible.

Most highly rated responses are the ones that think this woman was so wrong because Bible or because of religion.

Not a happy story, because of religious beliefs in that American city.

[LostOne4Ever]

11. The poll is freeped to hell

Notice that most of the "no" responses are just as insulting to the woman and her son as the "yes" comments.