US Catholic school fires teacher after husband’s obituary reveals his marriage to a man | New Orleans

For a long time at a Catholic school in the New Orleans region, the music teacher has recently lost his job when he was explained to a “discontented ür parent that another man was a widow wife, and otherwise he occupied the financing of his contribution to a federal explosion court after sexually triggered the children.

In an e-mail to the members of the Archbishop of the Archbishops, Mark Richards announced that a parent was fired for informing the authorities about a death proclamation for his husband who died of a heart attack in September 2023.

Richards’ e-mail included a moral substance that prohibits educators from educators from the educators to make a convention on a marriage that violated the Catholic Church rules, and the document was inconsistent with the teaching of religion.

He wrote that he has signed the renewable contract and moral substance every year, but that the entire Archbishop is necessary for teachers, but historically far from being universally compulsory – olma a blink and poke because it is not a great secret to which I am gay ”. St Francis Xavier community, with her marriage to her husband John Message, after her death, “Everyone in school was very sympathetic and supportive”.

However, this changed when the parent complained of the local church officials who warned him about the declaration of death of Messinger, who listed Richards as his husband. He said he was fired as a music teacher and group director at St Francis 21 years later at school on June 25th.

“I have not violated the moral substance in the last two years, and no one could find any incident of acting inappropriate with a student with a student, Ric Richards added that two years ago and later married him in St Francis. “Dissatisfied” – He reported that Messinger had discovered that he was mentioned in the declaration of death.

New Orleans WDSU as a member of NBC reported On Friday, Richards’s E -Post, sympathy for many parents in the school that was dismissed. A petition organized by the parent who supports Richards, calls his fire “unfair ve and calls him“ courtesy and understanding fever [students’] Living ”, collected about 1,500 signatures, station and Louisiana news output nola.com Each was noted.

A mother, Katheryn Lee told WDSU: “I want to see that the morality has changed.”

“I want the line about homosexuality in the moral article that the educators will be removed,” Lee said. “Your identity is not your morality. I hope we have a voice about it.”

A father named Rick English said he believed that the moral substance at the center of the dismissal of Richards to the station was a “violation of human rights” that must be reviewed. “In my opinion, a social injustice at this point,” he said.

Both Nola.com and WDSU claimed that the school administrators sent an e -mail to the St Francis community that Richards did not renew the employment contract and did not give a completely accurate definition of employment situation ”. However, the managers said that they could not be detailed by referring to the legal issues that are not specified.

“This decision will not be reviewed and will not be revised,” the school officials said in part. “We are always trying to make decisions that support the teachings of the Catholic belief that is for the benefit of our school.”

In the meantime, Richards wrote to his parents: “Teaching your children has become one of the joys of my life and I value memories.”

Nevertheless, when putting it in WDSU, Richards were betrayed by those who chose to fire it.

“It’s just a knife in the back, Ric Richards said. “It is time for this to stop. The rest of the free world does not think that homosexuality is very important.”

St Francis is one of the many trusted New Orleans affiliated organizations to contribute to a nine -digit settlement that resolved a bankruptcy protection case filed by the Archbishops leaders in 2020.

Last time settlement offer The Archbishop of the Archbishop was to pay approximately 600 abuse of $ 180 million and $ 230 million. However, the lawyer, who represented hundreds of these survivors, opposed this agreement, saying that at the end of 2024, a similar settlement against the plaintiffs of approximately 600 clergymen against the Central Archbishop of Rockville in Long Island, New York Island.

Any proposed settlement will need the support of two -thirds of the survivors who vote for the approval.