The school said it did not violate state discrimination laws because church employees must abide by the Catholic faith.
PARAMUS -- The former dean of Paramus Catholic High School says she was fired after the school discovered she was gay and married to another woman, according to a reporter on NorthJersey.com
Kate Drumgoole recently filed a lawsuit in Hackensack Superior Court alleging that the school, its president and the archdiocese discriminated against her, according to NorthJersey.com.
The school admitted in a motion that it fired Drumgoole because she married a woman, but said it did not violate state discrimination laws because church employees must abide by the Catholic faith, NorthJersey.com reported.
"She was terminated for violating the Ministerial Policies and the Code of Ethics - in failing to abide by the tenets of the Roman Catholic faith, i.e. by entering into a same sex marriage," the motion filed by the school said.
The 33-year-old Bogota resident, who also served as the head coach of the school's basketball team, also claims she was fired as retaliation for notifying administrators that three students alleged they had been sexually abused during a 2011 trip to Europe, the site reported.
Drumgoole added that several faculty members are divorced and live with members of the same sex.
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