Dec 21, 2015
Massachusetts Judge Douglas Wilkins denied a motion for summary judgement requested by Fontbonne Academy, a Catholic all-girls prep-school that terminated a new employee, Matthew Barrett, because he is involved in homosexual conduct and holds a marriage license to another man.
Fontbonne regards all employees as models to the students. During the hiring process, the applicant was explicitly told that the school views every position “as a ‘minister of the mission’ and that Barrett would be expected to model Catholic teaching and values,” to which he agreed. When he listed his emergency contact as his “husband,” the school rescinded the offer for employment.
The court dismisses the school’s constitutionally guaranteed religious freedom, falsely claiming that employing Barrett will not “dilute that message.” The court uses pages of legalese to disregard state law that specifically exempts religious employers. In conclusion, the court finds merit in two counts of discrimination because Barrett was dismissed for his publicly known homosexual conduct and because he was treated differently for marrying a man than a woman would have been.
Homosexual demands are now dwarfing the foremost rights revered in our nation’s founding and written into the unchangeable law of our land. It was the search for religious freedom that caused of the birth of our nation, and it cannot be discarded without serious consequences.
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