{"id":6538,"date":"2013-08-09T00:02:09","date_gmt":"2013-08-09T00:02:09","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-08-09T00:02:09","modified_gmt":"2013-08-09T00:02:09","slug":"l-a-students-deliver-45-000-signatures-supporting-ousted-gay-catholic-school-teacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2013\/08\/l-a-students-deliver-45-000-signatures-supporting-ousted-gay-catholic-school-teacher\/","title":{"rendered":"L.A. students deliver 45,000+ signatures supporting ousted gay Catholic school teacher"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Current and former students of St. Lucy\u2019s Priory High School delivered more than 45,000 petition signatures from a popular <a href=\"http:\/\/www.change.org\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Change.org<\/strong><\/a> campaign asking the Los Angeles-area Catholic school to reinstate ousted gay teacher Ken Bencomo. <\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of students and supporters gathered outside of St. Lucy\u2019s to rally for Bencomo, who had taught at St. Lucy\u2019s for 17 years before being fired last month after pictures of his same-sex wedding appeared in a local newspaper. One of the lead organizers of the event, Brittany Littleton, started the Change.org petition demanding that Bencomo be reinstated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday we\u2019re gathering as current and former students of St. Lucy\u2019s, with the support of more than 45,000 people around the country, demanding that one of the best teachers to ever work at St. Lucy\u2019s be given his job back,\u201d said Littleton.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not going to rest until Mr. Bencomo has his job back,\u201d Littleton said. \u201cHe gave so much to us as a teacher. Now it\u2019s time for his students to give back and make sure the whole country knows how great of a teacher he is, and how much he deserves to have his job back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><cite>Article adapted by Proud Parenting from original press release<\/cite><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-comments\" data-href=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/node\/17436\" data-num-posts=\"2\" data-width=\"470\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Current and former students of St. Lucy\u2019s Priory High School delivered more than 45,000 petition signatures from a popular Change.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,195],"tags":[54,482],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - 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