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Carla Hale was recently fired from her 19 year teaching position at Bishop Watterson High School after listing her female partner’s name in her mother’s obituary.
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2013/04/16/petition-to-reinstate-fired-teacher.html
Show Your Support – Sign the Change.org Petition to have her reinstated
http://www.change.org/petitions/diocese-of-columbus-reinstate-faculty-member-carla-hale
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THE FACTS
Sexual Orientation Discrimination is illegal in Columbus and Franklin County, but there is no Ohio statewide law.
Equality Ohio List of Ohio LGBT Laws
According to a contract between the Roman Catholic Diocese of Columbus and the Central Ohio Association of Catholic Educators, teachers can be terminated for “immorality” or “serious unethical conduct.”
Cases like these have Supreme Court precedent such as the 2012 HOSANNA-TABOR EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH AND SCHOOL v. EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION ET AL. ruling.
http://www.oyez.org/cases/2010-2019/2011/2011_10_553
