St. Mary's Academy in Portland rescinds job offer after learning candidate is gay

[KamaAina]

http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2015/08/post_538.html

St. Mary's Academy in downtown Portland rescinded a job offer to an academic counselor after learning the 27-year-old woman is gay.

Lauren Brown said the private Roman Catholic school in late July pulled its offer for a college counseling position after she told an administrator about her sexual orientation. Willamette Week reported late Tuesday that Brown was offered a year's salary to withdraw from consideration and to keep quiet about it.

Christina Friedhoff, president of the all-girls school, acknowledged the situation in a letter sent home to parents Tuesday.

"St. Mary's is grounded in the Catholic religion," Friedhoff wrote. "We ask that the faculty and staff support and nurture the Catholic identity, practice, culture and mission on which we were founded.

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1. They're getting quite a bit of push-back for it, too

I haven't gone online to any of the local news outlets, but it's really interesting to me that one Catholic school in Portland would object to hiring a lesbian while another (the University of Portland, if you must know) Catholic school would name its soccer field after Harry Merlo, a famously philandering robber baron. It's as if the Archdiocese is saying that the worst heterosexual bastard is still better than any homosexual person.

[Angry Dragon]

2. good thing they practice what their Jesus said ........ LOVE EVERYONE

it seems to me that they put more faith in Paul than they put in Jesus

[Arugula Latte]

3. Ahh, the RCC. Keeping the Middle Ages alive well into the 21st century.

[msongs]

4. the catholic identity has 2000 year history that shows it for what it really is nt

[RKP5637]

5. What a backward archaic place. n/t

[KamaAina]

6. I assume you mean St. Mary's Academy, not Portlandia.

[RKP5637]

7. Yep!!!