Fired After She Came Out
After enduring the Catholic version of "don't ask/don't tell" for several years, Totino-Grace High School
English/Religion teacher Kristen Ostendorf unexpectedly came out to her colleagues at the 47-year-old Catholic school in Fridley on August. 21. "I'm gay, I'm in a relationship with a woman, and I'm happy," Ostendorf blurted out to a roomful of 120 fellow teachers at a workshop. She was asked to resign the next day.
She didn't, the school terminated her, and in a matter of moments the 43-year-old Ostendorf had become the second Totino-Grace educator to part ways with the school over sexual identity this summern(president Bill Hudson resigned in July after acknowledging he is in a committed same-sex relationship).
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