Christians, Are You For Or Against Firing, Or Refusing To Hire, Someone In A Same-Sex Marriage At A Christian Institution?

[Physics-Man]

Yes

No

I'm not a Christian/Other

A total of 17 votes were cast: 3 girls and 14 guys. See detailed results

Updates

10 mo

Sorry, I completely messed up the poll choices!!!

[BCRanger10]

Short answer - I'm for it.

However, there's nuance to it. For one thing, both they and the institution should know what they're getting into. The institution should know and be willing to uphold their traditions and teachings. The employee or candidate for employment ought to know it as well and determine whether they can and will honor said teaching and tradition. This is most especially true with schools and educational institutions.

So despite what satire sites like The Huffington Post, Atlantic, or The Daily Beast might claim, someone doesn't get fired "just for being gay". It's because, for one thing, they are living in contradiction to what is required of them, i. e., in a same-sex relationship. And for another, because it is public.

And for the record, yes, I am entirely against gay men being ordained to the Catholic priesthood. I entertain absolutely no exceptions, I am rigidly inflexible on that.

With all that said, I don't think that these institutions should necessarily go out actively looking for people to fire. Again, if it is made public, if it is discovered, or somehow or other made known to the people in the positions of authority, that is when action should be taken. Similarly, I would also say that the person being affected should have a sense of integrity and voluntarily withdraw from the institution.

Catholic apologist Trent Horn did a great video on this very subject a couple of years ago. I'll link it here.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/VmwnI1btjy4

[Physics-Man]

I love his videos! I have books from him too.

[BCRanger10]

He's good and I generally like him. I don't much care for his subtle feminism or his slightly less subtle contempt for traditionalists (and a few other minor things), but he's still a good resource.

[BCRanger10]

Thank you for MHO 🙌

[docster]

I would definitely refuse to hire/fire a man who was in a same sex relationship. If he was single and celibate but had same sex attraction, knew that God forbids it, and was going to abstain, I would consider hiring him. If it's a woman, that gets into a gray area since the Bible doesn't clearly forbid female same sex activity.

[sage2021]

Whatever God says about it, then I am with Him!

The Bible is clear about homosexuality being a sin and no Christian Pastor should be marrying them. Period.

Personally I wouldn't hire one, for personal reasons.

I wouldn't have a problem firing one either if they were pushing their lifestyle on the other employees and it was affecting their work.

[sage2021]

Thank you for the MHO 🙂

[TrueConfection]

For.

I wouldn’t hire an alcoholic to be a bar tender or a gang member as a correctional officer.

It’s not that those people should be unemployed, but there are more appropriate choices.

[TrueConfection]

Thank you for the MHO 🩷

[Anonymous]

How out are they? I only say this because I personally do not care. But the Bible is pretty clear on it's stance on homosexuality. You can't be openly gay at a Christian institution anymore than you can openly be an adulterer.

Generally my take on this stuff is it's my job to love my brothers and sisters for who they are, not what they are. That is God's area.

[4ngelic]

I'm pro lgbt, but i believe companies should have the right to decide who works for them, even if it may be discriminatory.

[Anonymous]

I'm against firing them simply because they are in a same sex marriage, as long as they are not actively pushing an ideology, which they sometimes do.

[sportsbraslikes]

Would hire someone but give them low pay and no benefits

[ABC1x1x]

I would never hire anyone whose sexuality was their entire identity. Nothing but trouble.

[Dargil]

I wouldn't ask. I hire purely on merit.