{"id":396,"date":"2012-05-03T09:37:46","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T09:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/crowe-expresses-support-for-legislation-to-enhance-rights-of-lesbian-and-gay-teachers\/"},"modified":"2012-05-03T09:37:46","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T09:37:46","slug":"crowe-expresses-support-for-legislation-to-enhance-rights-of-lesbian-and-gay-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/crowe-expresses-support-for-legislation-to-enhance-rights-of-lesbian-and-gay-teachers\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowe expresses support for legislation to enhance rights of lesbian and gay teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>Crowe expresses support for legislation to enhance rights of lesbian and gay teachers<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s Education Spokesperson Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe has voiced  support for legislation going before the Seanad today that if  implemented, will enhance the human rights of lesbian, gay, and bisexual  teachers.<\/p>\n<p>He continued: \u201cWhile Irish society has generally become more  accepting of homosexuality, many gay teachers in schools still risk  falling victim to discrimination, or being put in a position where their  job is at risk should their sexuality become clear.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is unacceptable in this day and age, that any teacher should risk  facing dismissal on the grounds of their sexual orientation. This is  currently the case because of the existence of an archaic law that  permits employers to penalise employees for actions that supposedly  \u2018undermine\u2019 their religious standards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe sexual preference of a teacher should have no bearing on their  ability to fulfil their role as educators whilst at the same time  adhering to the religious ethos of the school where they teach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite this, Irish schools can often be hostile places for people  who are gay. Many risk discrimination with some being passed over for  promotion. Others have been verbally abused and found themselves the  victims of jokes and bullying.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen a school has an ethos that is hostile to gay and lesbians then  this can have implications for pupils who risk being bullied should they  disclose their sexuality. It is a factor that can lead to depression,  self-harm and suicide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI therefore welcome the Bill that is going before the Seanad which  makes amendments to the Employment Equality Act that will hopefully  address homophobic discrimination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one employed in a school setting should be targeted or victimised because of their sexual orientation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crowe expresses support for legislation to enhance rights of lesbian and gay teachers \u00a0 Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s Education Spokesperson Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe has voiced support for legislation going before the Seanad today that if implemented, will enhance the human rights of lesbian, gay, and bisexual teachers. He continued: \u201cWhile Irish society has generally become more accepting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}