Catholic Church pantry supervisor fired "for being a lesbian" sues Catholic dioces

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My apologies for how the headline is worded. The Star obviously has an agenda in reporting it this way. I use the actual headlines on the stories I post, so that's why it says what it says.

Kansas City Star: Church pantry worker fired for being a lesbian sues Catholic diocese http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article747650.htmlhttp://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article747650.html

A Kansas City woman fired from a Catholic food pantry in May sued the Kansas City-St. Joseph diocese and Bishop Robert Finn on Thursday, saying that her supervisors knew that she was a lesbian.

Colleen Simon alleges in her lawsuit that she had told two priests at St. Francis Xavier Church that she was married to another woman and they had informed her that her sexual orientation would not be a problem.

However, an April article in The Kansas City Star’s 816 news magazine mentioned her marriage to the Rev. Donna Simon of St. Mark Hope and Peace Lutheran Church. Within a month, Colleen Simon had been fired at Finn’s direction, she alleges.

Bluntly stated, Colleen is a liar.

There is no way anyone in the Catholic Church could have known she was an active-lifestyle lesbian and hired her to work for the church. Even more so than in some parts of the country, Catholics in the Kansas City area are very conservative and would not tolerate a "gay marriage" by one of its employees. I've got Catholic friends that this morning are outraged this woman would claim anyone in the church would have "known" she was a lesbian and still hired her. They say it just wouldn't happen.

This is undoubtedly timed as an attempt to recoup the loss before the Supreme Court to Hobby Lobby last week regarding the rights of private employers to refuse to cover morning-after contraceptives where doing so goes against their religious beliefs.