KTRK. “And they were just fun to look at — their costumes and the makeup and the hair.”The school soon contacted her and informed her that she — and the co-worker — had been fired.
Maris claims she wasn’t given clear reasons for the firing, but was directed to a photo on her Facebook account of her posing with some of the drag performers.While the school did not respond to an ABC News request for comment, a school official pointed KTRK to the school’s operating policy manual, which requires employees to agree to abide by a morality clause reading, “I will act in a godly and moral fashion at work, on Facebook, and in my community.”Maris said she was shocked to learn that her attendance at the drag show was considered a violation of her employment terms. “They’re entertainers,” she said, shaking her head in disbelief. “No, I never would have thought, in a million years, that this would have happened.
Never.”She later recounted the episode in a Facebook post, explaining the school’s rationale.“They told me because I went to this show and posted a picture I wasn’t walking in a Godly manner, so that being said, please remove yourself from my page if this offends you, if you think this is UnGodly, makes me a pedaphile (sic), or causes you to feel uncomfortable,” Maris wrote.Maris told KTRK that she is frustrated over how she and her co-worker were fired.“I feel we were treated like criminals,” she said. “We were in disbelief.
We still are. We’re heartbroken. We have relationships with parents, with the kids, and I didn’t even get to say bye to a lot of the kids.”Maris’s co-worker has not spoken publicly about the terminations.The incident comes amid an ongoing societal backlash against the LGBTQ community, and drag more.
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