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Married since 2007, lesbian teacher fired from Catholic school after 8 years because two parents complained
Margie Winters is finding out that she has many friends and supporters. What she doesn’t have anymore is a job.
Winters was fired last month from Waldron Mercy Academy in Merion, Pennsylvania, after eight years, because she is married to a woman.
She’s been married since 2007 and was upfront with school officials when she was hired and was advised then to keep a low-profile.
‘So that’s what I’ve done,’ she told The Philadelphia Inquirer. ‘I’ve never been open. And that’s been hard.’
But it wasn’t enough in the end.
The parents of a few students found out about Winters having a wife, one complained to school officials and the other went directly to the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.
On 22 June, Winters was fired.
‘The primary consideration that guided my decision-making process was to sustain the Catholic identity of Waldron Mercy Academy,’ Principal Nell Stetser said in a statement to the newspaper.
Stetser was not principal when Winters was hired.
A Stand With Margie Facebook page has been created and has more than 6,600 ‘Likes’ and a Go Fund Me page for Winters has raised more than $6,200.
The funds will go directly to Winters for her to cover any costs involved with the loss of her job.
‘I can only hope and believe that much good will come out of this, that Margie can continue to educate but in a place that RESPECTS her and her marriage, where she does not need to hide who she is,’ wrote Miriam Edelstein who pledged $50.
Carrie and Joe Santoro pledged $250 and wrote: ‘We stand with Margie. You are An amazing inspiring woman we are proud to know, and we will help you in anyway we can to fight this injustice in a merciful way.’
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