Catholic school was within its rights to fire gay teacher for posting about his same-sex marriage on social media, appeals court rules
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A Catholic school fired a teacher just for being gay. An appeals court just agreed with the school.
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Court rules in favor of Catholic school that fired gay drama teacher after he posted about his marriage
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