Holy crap (that's what this is). I know that school. It's in an area I used to live and passed it hundreds of times. Teachers work at private schools mostly at 75% of pay that a teacher makes in public schools. They are supposed to be dedicated but obviously this school was not dedicated to it's teachers. I wonder how many other Parochial schools practice this????

This teacher too had to resign

Progress would be if instead of a walk out the students all went to a public school and that Catholic one declared bankruptcy...

I cannot stand that word "catholic" any longer. They take forever to find child molesting catholic priests guilty but rather dismiss catholic teacher's who impart education to the children. What's happened to humanity and especially the voices of the children. I'm disgusted at that school. They hide behind private school policies that not even the students are taking kindly to. What a shame! They're hanging onto control of human beings, deciding the fate of other human beings.

Good for those kids.
I just looked it up and it would be illegal in the UK. You cannot even be refused admittance to a church for those reasons. Some employers can have morals clauses in their contracts but they would be things like sports teams and it would be for salacious behavior. It could not be for just being gay. For example a friend one had a one night stand with a very famous Liverpool and England football player. He phoned the next day begging her not to tell anyone because of this. Btw he was married to someone famous too. (and it was not Posh & Bex)

So much for the question "how we explain this to our kids?" Perhaps the kids should explain ti to the parents instead.

Acceptance is a slow death for equality.

It's great that the students protested, but the teachers haven't been reinstated.
This is behavior that is permitted by law. Private schools all across the country
have similar contracts with employees.
Most states are "at-will" states and employers can terminate any employee, at
any time, for any reason. Especially private religious businesses, or schools.

All the protests in the world aren't going to make any difference unless and until
the laws are changed.
Hopefully, the kids who participated in the protest grow up to be the adults who
change the laws.
Trying to get satisfaction through the courts is going to be an uphill battle, for
a LONG time.

I feel so happy & proud of these kids!

It seems that the 21st century’s generation are way ahead of their predecessors on matters of sexual orientation....as well as concerns over climate change! Perhaps there is hope for the human race after all!

It is progress.. The students are speaking up...

Ah, yes. The teachers have a contract that should not be against Catholic moral values in any way. This is how the school is getting rid of the teachers. We must remember that just a few years ago it was believed that a person became a "gay teacher" just to be able to corrupt the students. In this case the students are reacting to events at the school very well, and this is indeed progress.

Wow! It sounds like after this those students will dump the myth as adults if they have not already!

Luckily not a thing here, we have a large gay community with political muscle

I was kinda confused at first because Seattle is very progressive....until I got to the word Catholic.

There was some polemic as well when a priest in Spain was removed from his parish because he admitted to be gay. People had no problem with it as he was always in good relations with people and was doing a good job there. If these teachers were indeed forced out, whoever acted in forcing them out should be sacked. Fair play to the kids for standing up for the teachers.

Lets hope something good come out of this.