For Colleen Simon, of Kansas City, Missouri, there’s something about the month of May that brings dramatic change.
In May 2012, she wed the love of her life, Donna, in Iowa. It was also at that time she learned her cancer was in remission. The following May, she applied for – and later accepted – her dream job, a position that entailed running a food pantry at St Francis Xavier, a Roman Catholic church.
And this year, on 9 May, Simon was asked to resign from that job after her marriage to a local Lutheran reverend, Donna Simon, was noted in a magazine article.
“The reason for your involuntary separation of employment was based upon on irreconcilable conflict between the laws, discipline, and teaching of the Catholic Church and your relationship – formalized by an act of marriage in Iowa – to a person of the same sex,” the Diocese of Kansas City-St Joseph said in its letter of dismissal.
Simon is only the latest addition to a growing list of gay employees fired in recent years by Catholic institutions for marrying, announcing plans to wed, or in some way making public their sexual orientation. This slate of terminations comes at a time when the Vatican led by Pope Francis is urging a softer tone toward gays and lesbians.
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