Students protest after teachers reportedly fired for being gay
Over the weekend, a different story began to emerge. King County council member Dave Upthegrove posted a Facebook posting alleging both teachers were “forced” to resign because of their sexuality.
He said, “Kennedy High School in Burien today fired (forced the resignation of) two of their teachers solely because they are gay/lesbian. This is a reminder of the blatant discrimination that continues to exist in our community against members of the LGBT community.”
He went on to post that someone raised a rainbow flag at the school following news of the teachers’ departure broke – but it was swiftly taken down.
Fellow council member Joe McDermott posted to Facebook, “I’m angry that Kennedy Catholic High School has forced the resignations of two respected teachers because they are gay. This action is hurtful to the two former teachers, the Kennedy Catholic community, and most especially to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer students at Kennedy Catholic.”
Then, Paul Danforth’s fiancé, Sean Nyberg, took to social media to blast the school over its actions.
Nyberg tweeted Sunday, “DEVESTATED! On Nov 1st I proposed to my partner in @Disneyland … three months later he was forced to resign his job as an English Teacher at Kennedy Catholic High in Seattle, because of the same sex engagement. It’s heartbreaking.”
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This is awful, but every time this happens it seems like it's a Catholic school. It shouldn't happen, but why do people put themselves in this position? Find a school that's not a religious cult before you take the job.
| by Anonymous | reply 28 | February 20, 2020 9:41 PM
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Not for nothing, I resigned from Catholicism in 4th grade.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | February 19, 2020 5:20 PM
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Finally. An engagement photo where the one being proposed to doesn't have his hands over his face.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | February 19, 2020 5:25 PM
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Exactly, OP. What the hell did he expect?
Zero sympathy.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | February 19, 2020 5:28 PM
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Catholics are intolerant.
Big surprise. Almost all religions are. That's why they exist, to make rather ignorant people feel they are better than others, because they have a better religion.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | February 19, 2020 5:32 PM
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Religion is for idiots. Proven once again.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | February 19, 2020 5:34 PM
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This is why I laugh every time I read "open-minded Catholic" on the DL.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | February 19, 2020 5:35 PM
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No comment yet on the size of the fiancé? The Mohawk?? The Disney proposal??? Y’all slippin.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | February 19, 2020 5:40 PM
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I went to a Catholic school in the late 90s. Of course this was “quiet”, no one was wearing leather pants or waving rainbow flags. Everyone knew, they didn’t discuss it. Two students were suspended for yelling “faggot”.
We had a gay science teacher whose partner was a construction magnate and basically ran paid for the yearly charitable fair. There was also a very nelly gay Muslim maths teacher who would being baklava for the last classes of term.
Of course half the female art teachers and PE teachers were butch dykes.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | February 19, 2020 5:44 PM
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Outrageous!!! If it wasn't for Catholic School, I NEVER would've lost my virginity!!! And I'm NOT even CATHOLIC!!!! I thought the "Confessional" was a PHONE BOOTH!!! Imagine my surprise when I walked out of there with a fist full of quarters and all my sins forgiven!!! That was the best 12th birthday EVER!!!
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | February 19, 2020 5:46 PM
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R7 his twitter bio: All things DISNEY. Living in Bellevue. loves the gym, weather, sobriety, & politics. BA from Univ of Washington - JD from Gonzaga Law
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | February 19, 2020 5:46 PM
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R8, was this in the UK or done other Commonwealth nation?
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | February 19, 2020 5:54 PM
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No sympathy for the idiot that decided a catholic school would be a great place for an openly gay man to work.
Is he the fatass with the mowhawk or the gawking fairy in OP's picture?
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | February 19, 2020 6:33 PM
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Sounds like they both have issues with reality if one is obsessed with all things Disney and the other worked for an anti-gay institution.
At least this teaches the kids how screwed up their religion and school is. I'll give them that.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | February 19, 2020 6:41 PM
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I don't know. On the one hand I feel that these religious types would never get away with racial discrimination, so why let them get away with discriminating against gays? On the other hand, I feel like it should be possible for both sides to "live and let live", and that we shouldn't infringe on their territory.
As I'm typing this out I think I lean more towards the first option though. Wrong is wrong, and their hate doesn't only affect the adults in that school.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | February 19, 2020 6:51 PM
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The students and parents who are protesting need to demand to know the names of the hetero teachers living together unmarried or those who are divorced or having an affair.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | February 19, 2020 6:58 PM
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No problem with a priest fucking a choir boy, but gay teachers should be fired! Way to go Catholics!
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | February 19, 2020 7:01 PM
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Shame on them for having a job. And they better not try and sue or do anything about this, they deserved what they got and should've known better.
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | February 20, 2020 5:21 PM
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HOW DARE THEY "GAYIFY" THE DISNEY IMAGE!!! THEY'RE HERETICS AND SHOULD DIE IN A PIT OF POTPOURRI !!!
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | February 20, 2020 5:46 PM
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R21, it’s a pot of potpourri.
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | February 20, 2020 5:47 PM
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I know, bitch. That's why I said PIT.
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | February 20, 2020 6:26 PM
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Why are there 2 gay teachers working at a Catholic school?
| by Anonymous | reply 24 | February 20, 2020 6:27 PM
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R20 There's a difference between being fired from any job for being gay and being fired from your job teaching at a school governed by a homophobic religion. What they did is the equivalent of a gay man being upset about getting fired from his job as a secretary for One Million Moms or the WBC. That's why we have no sympathy. When you decide to stand in the middle of a busy road you can't complain when you're hit by a car.
| by Anonymous | reply 25 | February 20, 2020 6:30 PM
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R20 they didn't deserve it, but going to work at a homophobic institution...not the best idea.
| by Anonymous | reply 26 | February 20, 2020 7:43 PM
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[quote] but going to work at a homophobic institution...not the best idea.
Yet there are so many gay priests.
| by Anonymous | reply 27 | February 20, 2020 8:50 PM
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That's because their homophobic families sent them to the clergy to get "fixed".
| by Anonymous | reply 28 | February 20, 2020 9:41 PM
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