Order of Nuns Fined for Firing Lesbian Teacher

Case information
Incident date
Country
Italy
Categories
  • Government Restrictions
Attack Against
  • Faith
  • Morals
Societal Sphere
  • Education
  • Governmental
  • Workplace
Religious Freedom / Discrimination
  • Freedom of Conscience

An order of nuns was ordered to pay 25,000 Euros to a teacher for discontinuing her employment based on the incompatibility of her sexual orientation with the Catholic school’s ethos.

For the first time in Italy, a judge has fined a Catholic school for discrimination against a female teacher for her public homosexual lifestyle.

The Institute “Daughters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus” in the northern Italian town of Trento paid a sum of 25,000 Euros in reparation of property damage to an anonymous teacher. Additionally they were fined 1,500€ to the “Radical Association of Certain Rights” - a gay rights activist group in Italy and another 1,500€ to a local labor union. Source: Life Site News