Germany's constitution grants the Catholic Church to right to hire and fire employees according to their religious laws.
Its perfectly legal in Germany actually. There isn't much legal recourse for the matter, however if they can find another reason for his firing then its another matter altogether. German courts recently have been especially happy to challenge religious institutions despite the clause in their constitution.
I studied on a private Catholic school that's also church-run as well during my high school years and we had an openly gay History teacher. He was pretty awesome and was beloved by both students and the faculty. He'd even attend Sunday mass with everyone along with his boyfriend.
I get there's being strict to your faith's scriptures, but I wish people would take focus more on the core teachings on being cool with each other and loving thy neighbor and stuff. Professionally as well, there's no reason to fire someone that does great at their job and beloved by many just because of some subjective belief. Good of the students though protesting this.
Something I have learned in life is there are good people with faith, but they are far outnumbered by the bad ones. It's that way with everything. Bad/Evil will always have
the numbers, but it's up to the Good to be stronger.
Well I wouldn't say it's a matter of good people and bad people. The bible, unfortunately says that gay people are sinful, as a result the large majority of christians will see them that way. Pretty much anyone who takes their faith seriously is gonna be like this, they might not necessarily go around bashing gay people but they will almost always disapprove of it. It's less to do with them as people and more just the nature of religion, namely the abrahamic ones.
The Bible also says you shouldn't eat shellfish, yet not many is against that. Devote Christians say you shouldn't pick and choose from the bible to suit yourself, but many already do.
People are just using the Bible to justify their own views against homosexuality.
Yeah, priests can touch little boys in private, but god forbid you be openly gay.
It sucks that Christianity actually sucks dick and was written by maybe a couple good people but mostly monstrous savages otherwise.
This is actually explained in the new testament where most of the mosaic law was discarded and the laws that were kept being reiterated by the apostles, most infamously Paul. Eating shellfish isn't actually banned for Christians even by fundamentalist standards.
hopefully those "good people with faith" don't feel like following some parts of their religion anytime soon...
10 He became hungry and wanted something to eat, and while the meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance. 11 He saw heaven opened and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners.12 It contained all kinds of four-footed animals, as well as reptiles and birds. 13 Then a voice told him, “Get up, Peter. Kill and eat.”
14 “Surely not, Lord!” Peter replied. “I have never eaten anything impure or unclean.”
15 The voice spoke to him a second time, “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.” - Acts 10: 10-15
So like I said, which quote is better? How do we know? Who is right? Only God knows, but we don't.
well GOSH do you just go nailing every plothole of every novel you read!?
I'm not defending Christianity, just tackling the idea that eating shellfish is also forbidden for Christians when it actually isn't, similar amendments were made to circumcision as well so clearly the mosaic law no longer applied to Christians in totality. The bits that did were restated by the apostles in other sections.
A person of good faith made me realize I was wrong, I probably would have turned around anyway, but attempting to appeal to faith for my bigotry and being shot down was a head start. We had a kid in high school who was really gay, nasally-voice-eccentric-floats-down-the-hall gay, and it bothered the crap out of me. I was complaining to my teacher about him one day and she told me to leave him be, so knowing my teacher was a Christian I semi-sarcastically asked "Isn't that against the Bible?", and she responded that the Bible was written a long time ago by man, and that God loves everyone.
To a degree I can understand, If he were saying that there is no God, satan is a pretty chill guy, adultery is A-OK, or Jesus was just some nice guy, it would make sense that they would let him go as he is teaching things contrary to what they believe in. They believe homosexuality is wrong, he is saying it isn't, so they let him go.
It's kind of a tough area, not sure how I feel exactly. People get fired all the time for their beliefs, like people who believe mysogonistic, racist or even liberal or conservative ideas. Can PETA fire someone because they regularly meat and own pets? Legitimate question.
Two things to consider:
One, Matthew was writing with a Jewish audience in mind and thus emphasized or even embellished Jesus’s teachings to reflect this. Claiming that all of their religious traditions under Mosaic Law were suddenly pointless wouldn’t exactly play well when you’re trying to spread his message.
Two, technically, it’s purpose was complete when Jesus died so yeah, even by Matthew’s standards it is pretty much done with.
Besides, I certainly doubt fundamentalists are shunning women on their periods and forcing them to vacate their homes and live outside of town and are willing to burn people at the stake for wearing mixed fabrics and growing long beards.
the latter of which are both considered “abominations” in Mosaic Law, alongside homosexuality. Any serious religious scholar worth their salt has come to recognize that to the tribes of Israel, “abomination” was mistranslated and roughly accounts for something they don’t do, rather than it being an insult before god.
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