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Anger at Iowa Newman center after bishop fires transgendered employee

Started by Shana A, January 18, 2010, 10:40:46 AM

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Shana A

January 18, 2010, 10:40:46 AM
Anger at Iowa Newman center after bishop fires transgendered employee
January 18, 2010

http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=5186

Nearly 100 laity are boycotting Mass at an Iowa Newman center after Bishop Richard Pates of Des Moines fired a transgendered housekeeper who had quietly offered counseling services and formed a transgendered support group there. Bishop Pates told Susan McIntyre, who was born as Jim Ford, that "your unauthorized representation indicating that you are employed by and operating on behalf of the Newman Center as a counselor or social worker" led to the housekeeper's firing.

The bishop intervened after Father Joel McNeil, recently assigned to St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Student Center at Drake University, "noticed a piece of paper on a copy machine in the parish office," according to the Des Moines Register. "On it was a counselor's authorization of hormone therapy for a transgendered person about to undergo a sex change. On a letterhead that included the center's name and address."
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