Benet Academy reverses course, offers lacrosse coach job to woman in same-sex marriage. ‘Never … prouder to be a Redwing,’ she says.

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She publicly flouts church teaching, but so what?

Benet Academy has reversed course and offered the head coaching job of the girls lacrosse team to Amanda Kammes, an alumna of the Lisle-based Catholic high school who had seen the job offer rescinded after officials learned she was in a same-sex marriage.

Why wouldn’t it disqualify her? Scandal given here by Catholic school, slap in face, you might say, to the Church. An example for all.

Published by Jim Bowman

Jim Bowman covered religion 1968-78 for the Chicago Daily News, since then has written books, articles, etc., mostly on corporate history but also on religion (Company Man: My Jesuit Life, 1950-1968), and more recently on politics (Illinois Blues: How the Ruling Party Talks to Voters, -- Lulu.com, Kindle). Longtime Oak Park, Illinois, resident, he lives now on Chicago's North Side, where four of his and Winnie's six children live close by.

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