Longtime Texas Christian college instructor fired after attending drag present

A longtime instructor at a non-public Christian college in Texas was abruptly fired after attending a drag present in Houston with a co-worker earlier this month.

Kari Maris, a bodily training teacher at First Baptist Academy in Baytown for almost 20 years, attended a sing-along present at Hamburger Mary’s on July 13 with a coworker.

Maris posted a photograph of the pair with the drag queens on Fb that stated they’d a “blast,” she told KHOU.

Quickly after, Maris and the opposite instructor — who didn’t want to be recognized — have been contacted by their college and informed they must seem earlier than the college board for appearing “ungodly.”

Maris was shocked and informed the outlet she had no clue that going to a drag present privately might be thought-about “dangerous.”

”It’s no totally different than going to the theater,” Maris stated.

She pleaded her case earlier than the board however stated she “couldn’t get via with them in any respect.”

Maris and her co-worker have been each terminated. There is no such thing as a enchantment course of, she stated.

Maris said in a Facebook post this week that “earlier than ever getting the information of my termination it had unfold like wildfire within the church and the college.

“They informed me as a result of I went to this present and posted an image I wasn’t strolling in a Godly method, in order that being stated please take away your self from my web page if this offends you, in the event you suppose that is UnGodly, makes me a pedaphile [sic], or causes you to really feel uncomfortable,”she wrote within the publish that included a photograph of her with the drag queens.

The publish garnered greater than 1,300 interactions, 450 shares and tons of of feedback.

The Put up has reached out to First Baptist Academy for remark.

In keeping with the college’s web site, the college states its purpose “is to construct a powerful basis in every pupil via selling excellence in training and instilling Biblical ideology. We obtain this via larger degree curriculum, smaller school rooms, Biblical educating, a Christian ambiance and constructing shallowness.”