Gregory Kenney claims he was axed by Trinity athletic director Pat Krieger, inset, for being a straight, married dad. Photo: Victor Alcorn
Posted on 12/19/2013 1:31:27 PM PST by rawhide
A married, heterosexual gym teacher at a tony Upper West Side private school was fired because his lesbian supervisor disapproved of his “traditional family status,” the canned teacher claims in a new Manhattan lawsuit.
Gregory Kenney, 50, taught gym at the Trinity School on W. 91st St. for 16 years before he was let go in June 2012.
Kenney, who lives with his wife and three young children in LI, says he was a well-liked employee at the elite institution that counts Truman Capote, Ivanka Trump and Eric Schneiderman as alumni, until a gay athletic director named Pat Krieger took over in 2009.
Krieger allegedly forced him to coach three sports, even though his contract only required him to join two teams, according to his reverse discrimination suit.
When he complained that the extra responsibilities interfered with his family obligations Krieger allegedly told him, “We all make choices,” the suit says.
After Kenney told Krieger that he couldn’t keep working nights and weekends, she reported him to the headmaster “while a single, female teacher faced no scrutiny when she refused to coach a third season.”
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Gregory Kenney claims he was axed by Trinity athletic director Pat Krieger, inset, for being a straight, married dad. Photo: Victor Alcorn
What is this “Trinity” of which the school is named for?
show of hands, anyone really surprised by this?
Those of us with more than a couple of brain cells in out skulls have known something like this was coming for quite some time.
She has penis envy.
The fired teachers are going to wind up owning the school.
“The Wanting Seed”, by Anthony Burgess, was intended as a WARNING, not an instruction manual.
What is it about his CONTRACT she didn’t understand?
Trinity School. Sounds like it had Christian origins to me.
But the new meaning of Trinity is evidently gay, lesbian, and bisexual.
Good luck to him. He should have a good legal case, considering how long he has worked there, unless he gets a lesbian judge.
Good. Start the show, there’s a lot more of us then them.
Hope the damn schools have big insurance policies, they’re gonna need them.
Not to mention explaining a hate filled dyke teaching their kids. It’s a private school, right? They can walk away from that.
My guess is that it is Episcopalian.
If I had a lesbo boss, I’d be fired too. It’s always about a choice.
Yep. Most of the old-money families in the Northeast are Episcopalians.
I looked it up at their website and found this:
“Founded as a charity school at Trinity Church in 1709 for 40 students, it moved to its current location in 1895 and now has an average enrollment of 960. Trinity is no longer sponsored by a specific religious body, and the Trinity community is characterized by religious, racial, and ethnic diversity.”
Evidently it was Episcopal, but was founded as a charity school for bright, needy kids rather than the children of the privileged. I don’t know if it stayed that way.
[Pssst....whats an Eric Schneiderman? And am I supposed to be impressed?]
There’s gonna be more to the story. This is going to turn out to be just like those gay bashing “tips” and the guy banned from WalMart.
Read it and weep.. The company has a right to employee whomever they wish, that comports with the company goals.. There are restrictions, of course, but they will find a way, given their tools to set the rules..
However, it works both ways, when the shoe is on the other foot.. As ugly as it seems, the system works, unfortunately not in every case.. There are some industries that are dominated by certain groups, and those are ones that get this type of attention..
I know only too well, I’ve been on both sides of the isle, only when I had control, I remembered what it was like and didn’t reciprocate..
I left Hollywood for just this type of discrimination.. I was a Costume Designer, a young newlywed, from the “Little Italy” section of Chicago.. The older Stars tried to protect me, but the powers to be, were overwhelmingly in control.. This was in the 60’s, imagine what it must be like today.. DUH!
I had one (blatant conservative / man hater) and she was a vile being.
Not guilty!!
Seriously, nice-looking man, looks younger than 50.
This is how gays do it - they use anti-discrimination laws, or good old-fashioned, well-meaning tolerance - to gain a foothold in an institution. Then - as they move up into positions of authority - they use that authority to hire people like themselves and transform the institution into a gay institution. By that time, the enforcers of “anti-discrimination” laws have lost interest, or - more likely - they approve of the new situation.
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