News from New Orleans, Louisiana:
A longtime music teacher and band director at a Catholic school in Metairie contends that he was fired this week after a parent complained about his same-sex marriage, sparking an outcry from some parents, students and alumni.
Mark Richards, who began teaching at St. Francis Xavier Catholic School in 2003 and helped the K-8 school establish a successful band program, said he was let go on Wednesday after a parent brought his late husband’s obituary from 2023 to the attention of Archdiocesan officials and school administrators. The obituary names Richards as the man’s surviving spouse.
Richards’ contract with the school includes a provision that prohibits teachers from supporting or engaging in same-sex marriage, a so-called “morality clause” that is commonplace in contracts of Catholic school teachers…
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