Ousted Eastside Catholic vice principal Mark Zmuda will announce Friday that he is filing a discrimination suit against the school as well as the Catholic Archdiocese of Seattle. Zmuda was ousted in December are school and archdiocesan officials learned that he had married his same-sex partner. The Catholic Church opposes marriage equality and has a provision in educators’ contracts that provides for adherence to church teachings. “I was definitely terminated: I did not resign,” Zmuda told a rally of supporters at the St. Joseph Church parish hall earlier this year. The ouster, just before Christmas break, set off protests at the Sammamish School and demonstrations outside the archdiocesan chancery. [...]
Reported by SeattlePI.com 2 hours ago.
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