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A gay teacher has lost his job at a Baptist school in Perth,
sparking debate about laws that allow religious schools to
discriminate.

Waa!

Hit the road, pervert.

The sacking of a teacher has sparked calls to remove the legal
right in Western Australia for private schools to discriminate
against gay workers.

Craig Campbell had been employed as a relief teacher at South
Coast Baptist College at Rockingham, where he completed primary
and high school himself as a student, and another school.

However he says South Coast Baptist removed him from its roster
after he told senior staff he was in a long-term relationship
with a man.

He was never notified and found out from other teachers.

The other school still employs him.

Mr Campbell told OUTinPerth gay newspaper he went to a wedding
with his partner and students from the school were there, so he
decided to be proactive and tell the school.

LGBTI advocacy group spokesman Brian Greig, a former WA
Democrats senator, has called on the WA government to close a
"loophole" in the state's Anti-Discrimination Act.

"The loophole allows private and church schools to sack gay
teachers for no reason," he told AAP, pointing out those schools
relied on government funding.

"We are now in the absurd situation where LGBTI staff in private
schools will soon be able to legally get married under federal
law and then legally able to be sacked the next day under state
law."

Tasmania is the only state to not have religious exemptions in
its anti-discrimination act and hasn't for almost 20 years,
meaning it is illegal to discriminate there on the grounds of
sexuality or gender identity.

However WA has the broadest and most discriminatory wording in
its laws, Mr Greig said.

The school's principal, Des Mitchell, told The West Australian
the "school community's foundational beliefs at that time had
reflected only relationships involving a male and a female" and
there was "inconsistency with his beliefs on sexuality and the
college's beliefs".

South Coast Baptist is in the electorate of WA Premier Mark
McGowan, who says he's very disappointed as he has always
regarded it a good school and Mr Mitchell "a good man".

He says the government is investigating whether the laws can be
changed.

"I think most people would think it should be possible to work
in a school and your sexual orientation is irrelevant," he told
reporters.

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/perth-baptist-school-sacks-gay-
teacher

South St. Paul teacher, husband found dead had sexually abused
10, police documents say

http://www.startribune.com/case-file-south-st-paul-teacher-and- husband-who-committed-suicide-sexually-abused-10-before-
deaths/408560525/

This week, South St. Paul Police Chief William Messerich said
his department has closed the investigation into molestation
allegations involving Babbitt, 40, and Deyo, 36. Eight of the 10
victims were juveniles in their midteens.

Because the accusations were “too great to overcome,” they
decided to kill themselves, the letter said.

The first victim came forward to police Aug. 14. He turned over
pictures of himself naked with Babbitt. The teen said Babbitt
agreed to be a mentor for him when he came out as gay to his
family.

The boy said he had sex with both men at a downtown Minneapolis
hotel during this year’s Pride Festival. The boy was at his
family’s cabin when he started to have a panic attack about the
sexual relationship and told his parents.

Deyo had videos taken from a hidden camera in the bathroom of
their house. Investigators also found many videos of the men
having sex with boys.

Besides their home, the couple had sex with boys at a cabin they
owned in Crow Wing County. Several victims said they were so
drunk and high from smoking marijuana that they didn’t know how
to stop the sexual advances.
 

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