If you keep your private life private, then there is no harm done. Stop putting things on line, it isn’t necessary.

I imagine this issue and contracts and law will need to change with the changes that have now occurred in Australia. No one should have to hide who they are and who they love.

This is just wrong! Maybe if she put the photos on the school notice board, sure, but this is her private Facebook page and it should remain that way. Private. I know Facebook is not very private- I work at a law firm and I know that people going through WorkCover claims are often investigated through their Facebook pages if they are silly enough to post on there, but this is a marriage. I’m sure the school wouldn’t have done anything had the teacher married her heterosexual partner. So why should it be different if she married another woman. I am a Christian myself, and while I don’t think that female and female, male and male relationships are naturally right, times are changing and I am fully against discrimination in any way and believe that all people have rights. The law now says that these marriages are recognised so I think there should definitely be grounds for unfair dismissal here.

Ooh, a tricky one where it breaches her contract. However, you would like to think love and commonsense prevails. I’ve no doubt she will get a job elsewhere, just not within Catholic education.

If she’s signed a contract then she signed a contract. I hope her lawyer however finds that it was an unenforceable discriminatory contract!

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  • • mom93821 replied
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  I imagine and hope that most people would see it this way too.

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What a load of codswollop!

That is discrimination, plain and simple.

I am an atheist and I would have expected something like this to happen.

How sad to be so narrow minded 🙁

How discriminating ! However it might have been good when she was more careful with this working at a Catholic school.

It is a pity the photos became public. Did she forget what her contract with school is? The kids have obviously lost a very good teacher.

I didn’t realise that you had to be heterosexual to work in a Catholic school despite their teachings on the matter.