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Related: About this forumA second counselor at this Indiana Catholic school will lose her job over same-sex marriage
Lynn Starkey who has 39 years of exemplary employment, including teacher of the year recognition in 2009, will lose her job because of who she loves. Our Second Lady works for a school with similar policies.
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A second counselor at this Indiana Catholic school will lose her job over same-sex marriage
Vic Ryckaert, Indianapolis Star Published 7:56 p.m. ET March 25, 2019 | Updated 9:08 p.m. ET March 25, 2019
INDIANAPOLIS A second guidance counselor at an Indiana Catholic school has been told she will lose her job because she is in a same-sex marriage. ... A lawyer for Lynn Starkey, co-director of guidance at Roncalli High School, says school officials told her that her contract will not be renewed for the 2019-2020 school year.
"Starkeys 39 years of exemplary employment, including teacher of the year recognition in 2009, will end because she is in a same-sex marriage and because she filed discrimination complaints," attorney Kathleen DeLaney said Monday in an emailed statement.
Delaney said she will amend a discrimination charge Starkey filed in November with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to include the fact that Starkey is losing her job.
The archdiocese, in an email from spokesman Greg Otolski, said the Catholic schools' staff and teachers are employed on one-year contracts that do not automatically renew. ... "Ms. Starkey is currently in breach of her contract with Roncalli High School because she is in a civil union that is considered 'contrary to a valid marriage as seen through the eyes of the Catholic Church,'" the archdiocese said.
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Vic Ryckaert, Indianapolis Star Published 7:56 p.m. ET March 25, 2019 | Updated 9:08 p.m. ET March 25, 2019
INDIANAPOLIS A second guidance counselor at an Indiana Catholic school has been told she will lose her job because she is in a same-sex marriage. ... A lawyer for Lynn Starkey, co-director of guidance at Roncalli High School, says school officials told her that her contract will not be renewed for the 2019-2020 school year.
"Starkeys 39 years of exemplary employment, including teacher of the year recognition in 2009, will end because she is in a same-sex marriage and because she filed discrimination complaints," attorney Kathleen DeLaney said Monday in an emailed statement.
Delaney said she will amend a discrimination charge Starkey filed in November with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to include the fact that Starkey is losing her job.
The archdiocese, in an email from spokesman Greg Otolski, said the Catholic schools' staff and teachers are employed on one-year contracts that do not automatically renew. ... "Ms. Starkey is currently in breach of her contract with Roncalli High School because she is in a civil union that is considered 'contrary to a valid marriage as seen through the eyes of the Catholic Church,'" the archdiocese said.
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A second counselor at this Indiana Catholic school will lose her job over same-sex marriage (Original Post)
mahatmakanejeeves
Mar 2019
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RKP5637
(67,108 posts)1. Disgusting! We have a president like tRump that is disgusting, and this woman gets treated
horribly because of same-sex marriage because the haters persecute her.
Odoreida
(1,549 posts)2. Example of why everybody ...
... but particularly gay people, should simply avoid having any dealings with the roman Catholic Church at all.
I hope someone decent hires her fight away.