Gay Teacher Uses Creative Legal Tactic Against The School That Fired Him

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Flint Dollar.

Georgia is one of the 29 states in the U.S. where you can be fired for being gay, but that isn't stopping a teacher there from suing the Catholic school that allegedly fired him over his plans to marry another man.

Music teacher Flint Dollar has filed a lawsuit claiming Macon, Georgia, Catholic school Mount de Sales Academy discriminated against him based on gender, NPR reports. Dollar can't sue the school for bias against him based on sexual orientation because federal law does not bar such discrimination — and neither does the state of Georgia.

Dollar's lawyer, Charles Cox, argues Dollar can use Title VII of the Civil Rights Act — which forbids discrimination based on gender — to sue the school because he was essentially penalized for not conforming to gender stereotypes.

"When you fire somebody because they are engaging in a same-sex marriage, I think that pretty clearly fits with gender discrimination," Cox told NPR. "You're being fired because you're not complying with traditional gender stereotypes, and that's wrong, and we believe it's unlawful."



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