Open-and-shut case of waving red shirt at bull until (surprise!) you get a response:
It wasn’t being gay that cost Laine Tadlock her job in administration at Benedictine University’s Springfield campus. Her orientation was no secret to her employers. They knew when she was hired five years ago, Tadlock said.
It wasn’t that she and her spouse, Kae Helstrom, went to Iowa this summer to be married, after a 2009 Iowa Supreme Court ruling opened the door to gay marriages in that state. Her employer knew the marriage was happening, too, she said.
But when Helstrom’s and Tadlock’s wedding announcement was published in The State Journal-Register, it was the beginning of the end for Tadlock’s tenure as director of the education program at Benedictine.
You push and push and push, not knowing when to stop, looking for trouble (when enough will come your way without looking), and lo and behold, the institution says enough already.
In a Sept. 30 letter to Tadlock’s attorney, Benedictine President William Carroll wrote, “… By publicizing the marriage ceremony in which she participated in Iowa she has significantly disregarded and flouted core religious beliefs which, as a Catholic institution, it is our mission to uphold.”
Of course. It’s a crazy mixed-up world at best, where every last jot and tittle cannot be made a case of. But flouting? That’s something else. What was she thinking of?
Blithe Spirit 