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Wed Jul 10, 2019, 11:16 PM Jul 2019

Indiana teacher fired for same-sex marriage sues archdiocese

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A Catholic high school teacher who was fired because he's in a same-sex marriage sued the Archdiocese of Indianapolis on Wednesday, accusing it of discrimination and interfering with his teaching contract.

Joshua Payne-Elliott is suing the archdiocese in Marion County court and seeking unspecified compensatory, emotional distress and other damages.

Payne-Elliott taught at Cathedral High School for 13 years and Cathedral renewed his annual teaching contract on May 21, his attorney, Kathleen DeLaney, said in a news release. But on June 23, Cathedral's president told him he was being fired on the orders of the archdiocese.

Payne-Elliott also has filed discrimination charges with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, claiming the archdiocese discriminated against him on the basis of his sexual orientation and retaliated against him for opposing sexual orientation discrimination, the news release said.

Read more: https://www.nwitimes.com/news/state-and-regional/indiana/indiana-teacher-fired-for-same-sex-marriage-sues-archdiocese/article_8ae9976e-e22a-548e-ad53-d1c9cabc44a5.html

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