1. Schoolhouse Beat

Video: Petition wants Catholic school to reinstate teacher fired because of her sexual preference

April 22, 2013
Carla Hale taught for 19 years at Bishop Watterson High School in Columbus, Ohio

Video from WCMH-TV: More than 7,000 names have been collected on a petition asking a Catholic school in Columbus, Ohio, to rehire Carla Hale, a veteran teacher who was dismissed after it became known she was a lesbian.

ALSO: The Columbus Dispatch reports that Bishop Watterson High has complained to police after receiving hundreds of calls, some of them threatening, about Hale's dismissal from the school.

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