http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/09/1376610/-Students-stage-walkout-at-Iowa-Catholic-high-school-after-a-teacher-is-denied-a-job-for-being-gay?detail=email
On a rainy Wednesday, 150 students and alumni staged a walkout at Dowling Catholic High School located in West Des Moines. The school's administration opted out of hiring substitute teacher (and Dowling alumnus) Tyler McCubbin after learning he was gay on social media.
The walkout by about 150 students happened about 1:20 p.m. despite the rain outside.
Students signed a petition "against Dowling leadership's hiring policies as discriminatory against individuals based on sexual orientation."
Students led multiple prayers during the event. A handful of Dowling parents also were in attendance. They told KCCI they are proud their children took a stand against what they call an unjust hiring practice.
Some students supported the school's decision. But many came out against it.
"Our community should know that we care and that the choices of our school leaders and our diocese leaders don't directly reflect what we believe as students and it just makes me so happy that we can show our community that," said Grace Mumm, a sophomore who helped organize the walkout.
Although it's incredibly heartening to see the students protesting on behalf of the teacher, Dowling's decision to not hire based on sexual orientation is just another instance of legal discrimination.
Law experts say the school was within its rights to not offer the job to the candidate.
The state's civil rights act prohibits hiring discrimination based on reasons that include sexual orientation but makes an exception for religious institutions.
we are again defending the religious right and all their bigotry but they are upset because their freedom to impose their beliefs on the rest of the population is being questioned? so are the students wrong for not accepting their philosophy just as the Pope has voiced his dissatisfaction with the way the way address their prejudices this will be interesting it looks as though they are again at war with themselves and the children are not letting them off the hook cheers to them jeers to those who chose to promote hate in the house of God.
