Mon 1 Oct 2012 In: New Zealand Daily News View at Wayback View at NDHA
Nigel Studdart (Close Up) Sacked Whangarei teacher Nigel Studdart is considering taking legal action over his dismissal from Pompallier Catholic College after he supported a gay rights protest. Studdart backed students who wore rainbow ribbons or armbands to show their support for gay marriage, after the school’s principal wrote a piece in the school’s newsletter opposing a bill to introduce marriage equality. The teacher has told Radio New Zealand's Morning Report programme he will be meeting with the secondary school teachers' union, the PPTA, this week to discuss his options. He said he asked Stanton to withdraw his comments in the newsletter the day after he wrote it, but the principal has stood by what he wrote. "It has offended church leaders, it has offended an awful lot of parents and offended a lot of students." He said his point with the principal was not about gay marriage, but about gay parents and gay students.
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First published: Monday, 1st October 2012 - 10:42am