COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Columbus Catholic school teacher who was fired for acknowledging her lesbian partner won’t get her job back.
Carla Hale reached a settlement yesterday with the Catholic Diocese of Columbus, in which she’ll give up the fight to return to Bishop Watterson High School.
Mum’s the word on the full details of the deal but attorneys for both sides in the dispute said she will receive “acknowledgement” for her years of service.
Hale is a physical education teacher. She had argued she was fired after her mother’s obituary included the name of Hale’s partner and someone complained.
Bishop Frederick Campbell had said Hale was fired not because of sexual orientation but because she violated the church’s moral teaching by having what he described as a “quasi-spousal relationship” with a woman.