Posted on 12/04/2014 4:10:37 PM PST by Citizen Zed
A former Catholic choir director who is gay filed a lawsuit Thursday after he was fired when he announced plans to marry his partner.
Colin Collette along with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Cook County Human Rights Commission filed the suit against Holy Family Parish and its pastor at the Rolling Meadows courthouse.
Collette claims he was fired over the summer from his position as the choir director at Holy Family parish in Inverness when he announced his engagement to his longtime partner.
“It saddens me to have this integral part of my life taken away because I have chosen to enter into a marriage as is my right under Illinois law,” he said.
It remains unclear if the state’s gay marriage law will impact the Catholic Church.
“The courts will make that determination,” said Collette’s lawyer Kerry Lavelle. “[Collette] is not yet married, he is moving towards that and he has that right under Illinois law.”
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Isn't that redundant?
I'm sure there are exceptions, but it seems every church music director I've known has been gay.
I’m really getting tired of these whinyass fags. They’re always suing normal people.
“Gay priests?” Who ever heard of such a thing? /s
This will go nowhere.
here we go
Don’t be so sure.
We live in Obamaland now.
“The courts will make that determination”. Chilling.
I have gossiped and lied. I think I will go to court to change church doctrine on those things.
Illinois' law or God's law? Make your choice.
You mean Obamastan.
Apparently parishes have enough money to hire music directors who carry out the difficult task of deciding between “Gather Us In” and “On Eagle’s Wings”.
Why would a church have a gay music director?
Positions of leadership should only be filled by people who live in accordance with the teachings of the church.
Someone is going to have to come up with a watertight declaration of faith clause in the employment contracts for Church employees or hire them all on casual contracts with no guarantee of continuance.
“Isn’t that redundant?”
Thank goodness I already put down my drink before I saw that!
If the unelected black-robed con men who occupy our judicial branch have a chance to decide that, that is the way they will go.
“It saddens me to have this integral part of my life taken away”
Well..at least you didn’t have your life taken away like Obola’s former gay church choir director in Chicago who was shot in the head!
Yes.The goal is to destroy and remove religion from all facets of life.
Was this a choir director at a gay church, or a choir director who just happened to be gay?
His lifestyle is inconsistent with the Church doctrine. I do believe that homosexuals didn’t want the right to marry just to get married, they have always wanted to shut down the Church, because it stands in their way for sexual perversion.
Church law requires all employees to sign an oath of loyalty under which they agree to follow Catholic laws including moral rules. This has previously held up to court challenges. Not to say that under the present moral insanity, he still might win or get a settlement.
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