So I wondered about how people expressing their personal beliefs are treated at religious schools, obviously I expect they are given the space to hold views contrary to the organisation that runs the school?
A Seventh Day Adventist Church school in Melbourne, Australia sacked a teacher because he expressed support for marriage equality on Facebook.
A Catholic school in St. Louis, Missouri, USA sacked a gay teacher for... getting married.
A Catholic school in Minnesota, USA sacked a teacher who dared to say she disagreed with the church on marriage equality.
These cases are all outside of the UK, I couldn't find recent cases involving teachers on either side of the debate here in the UK (feel free to point them out). But I'd be interested to know where our religious friends stand on this matter. Do they support sacking teachers for their personal morality or not? And are they saying that a school has no right to tell a teacher what they can and can't tell the children?
Ultimately I suspect you'll find hypocrisy somewhere in their arguments....
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