{"id":89712,"date":"2020-02-19T07:00:32","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T12:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=89712"},"modified":"2020-02-18T18:15:14","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T23:15:14","slug":"st-sudden-resignation-of-two-seattle-area-roman-catholic-school-teachers-stirs-protests-over-church-stance-on-same-sex-relationships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=89712","title":{"rendered":"(Seattle Times) Sudden resignation of two Seattle-area Roman Catholic school teachers stirs protests over church stance on same-sex relationships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two people close to one of the teachers, Paul Danforth \u2014 his mother, Mary Danforth, and his fiance, Sean Nyberg \u2014 said his departure was related to news that he was planning to marry another man. They said they couldn\u2019t comment about whether the teachers were fired, quit voluntarily or were asked to resign.<\/p>\n<p>Several students said they already knew that Danforth and the other teacher were both in relationships with same-sex partners.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy Catholic mother Erika DuBois, who helped plan the walkout, said the news of the teachers\u2019 departures shocked her. She said she knew that Catholic school teachers had to sign a contract that includes a morality clause about adhering to church values but that she didn\u2019t expect the school to act on the clause.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/education\/sudden-resignation-of-two-seattle-area-catholic-school-teachers-stirs-protests-over-church-stance-on-same-sex-relationships\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i>I will take comments on this submitted by email only to KSHarmon[at]mindspring[dot]com<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two people close to one of the teachers, Paul Danforth \u2014 his mother, Mary Danforth, and his fiance, Sean Nyberg \u2014 said his departure was related to news that he was planning to marry another man. They said they couldn\u2019t<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=89712\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,168,114,108,414],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic-other-churches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89712"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89716,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89712\/revisions\/89716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}