Posted on 07/27/2023 10:22:11 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
BAYTOWN, TEXAS – Two Texas teachers have been fired after attending a drag show in downtown Houston earlier this month.
Kristi Maris and an unnamed coworker were both let go after attending a drag show on July 13 at Hamburger Mary’s, according to multiple reports.
Maris, who has been a teacher at First Baptist Academy for 19 years, told KTRK that after she posted photos and videos of her visit to the popular venue, she and her coworker were fired.
“I feel like we were treated like criminals,” Maris said. “They’re entertainers. I would’ve never thought in a million years that this would happen. Never. We were in disbelief. We still are. We were heartbroken. We had relationships with parents and the kids, and I didn’t even get to say goodbye to a lot of the kids.”
According to KTRK, the school’s senior pastor said the teachers were fired because of a line in the school’s operating policies manual that states “I will act in a godly and moral fashion at work, on Facebook and in my community.”
Maris said she had no idea she was breaking that clause in the manual by attending a drag show.
“For almost 20 years, I’ve taught children to love each other. I’ve talked to them and told them, ‘You have to get along. God loves us all equally.’ And that’s the way we should be,” Maris told KTRK.
“We should love everybody, and that’s what we’ve been teaching, but they’re expecting us not to do that,” she continued.
Maris said that she is done with teaching at the moment but noted that she would attend a drag show again.
“It was too much fun, and it was good music,” Maris said.
KSAT has reached out to First Baptist Academy for comment.
Jesus met with sinners, made friends with sinners but I don’t believe I have ever read in the Bible of him visiting places of sin.
Jesus met with sinners to save them.
Most Christian schools have clear statements on biblical morality. Typically they explicitly include monogamous marriage between one man and one woman AND just as explicitly reject “adult” entertainment.
The First Baptist Academy was well within their rights to fire these two, just they same as if they were members of a swingers group.
Personally, I would NEVER pay to send my children to a school that considers drag shows as acceptable entertainment.
They’ll have zero problem finding employment at a public school.
Nancy Coehn has a great testimony of being sent to bar. She was so overwhelmed, all she could do was burst into tears. People got saved, so a little different scenario. She wasn’t posting to FB about the great time and fun she had there. If you don’t go to places of sin, how do you find the lost sheep? Jesus was willing to come into the fallen world for us, we can go for him. I don’t think the teacher was actually sent, though, like Nancy was.
Good news story of the day.
“Then why did you go to that show?!”
I’m not interested in Tom Cruise’s lifestyle either but I just went to his latest movie.
I think they were mainly fired because they are too stupid to be teachers.
The famous gay wit Oscar Wilde once quipped, “Sentimentality is loving people more than God would.”
In other words, she is confusing emotionality and sensationalism with true Biblical love— caritas. Two different things.
Plus, I sincerely doubt that the drag show was just good clean family fun.
They should have been TIPPED OFF by the part about ‘moral character’.
Agreed, and Big Daddy Don Garlits isn’t really Big Debby.
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