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Article on homosexuals costs staffer his job.

Publication: National Catholic Reporter
Publication Date: 20-MAY-05 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Article on homosexuals costs staffer his job.(NATION)(U.S. Jesuit Conference fires one of its employees)

Article Excerpt
Erik Meder was asked to resign his post with the U.S. Jesuit Conference because of an article he wrote for a Jesuit national newsletter that advocated the church have an open dialogue with homosexuals about homosexuality.

Meder told NCR that as soon as the article, "Strangers No Longer: Who is the Other among us?" appeared in the in the April/May 2005 issue of National Jesuit News, he was called into the offices of Jesuit Fr. Jim Stormes, his immediate supervisor, and Jesuit Fr. Tom Gaunt, the executive secretary, or socius, of the U.S. Jesuit Conference.

"I was asked to resign or be terminated for submitting the article," Meder said. "Because the article was already printed,...

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