Mr Zmuda said that he was told by school officials that he was let go because he was 'married to a man which violated Catholic teaching'.
Mr Zmuda said that although he loved working at the Catholic high school and valued its principles, he disagreed on the Church's stance against gay marriage.
He said: 'People don't choose to be straight or gay, instead they discover it... I just disagree with the way the church feels on this particular issue.'
Eastside Catholic high school in Seattle, Washington has fired their vice principal because his gay marriage violated the religion's teachings
This weekend a rally was held at the Catholic Archdiocese of Seattle in support of the vice principal.
Demonstrators held signs reading 'Keep Mr Z', 'God is Love' and the remark made by Pope Francis: 'If someone is gay... who am I to judge?'
Students stood outside the Archdiocese of Seattle last month to protest the firing of Eastside Catholic High School Vice Principal Mark Zmuda for his legal same sex marriage
Reader submissions
1) It's a Catholic school, how can he be surprised? He should have not been hired in the first place if the school had an issue with him being gay.
2) Become a teacher in a regular school system and not a Catholic one. Solves the problem.
3) Would this be in the media if it had been any other religion other than Christian? NO.
Vocabulary
to rally –
Fellow Republicans rallied to the President's defense.
Churchill's speeches helped rally his countrymen to fight against the enemy.
to let go –
I'm afraid we’ll have to let several of our staff go.
stance – позиция
in the first place – He wouldn't have given you the job in the first place if he didn't think you could do it.
to have an issue (issues) with -
I have a few issues with Marc.
Anna has major issues with her employer.
Lesbian athletic director 'fired married gym teacher from Manhattan high school because he was straight '
A lesbian athletic director fired a popular male gym teacher who was married with kids because she disapproved of his traditional family status, he has claimed.
Gregory Kenney, 51, taught gym at Trinity School, an exclusive private school in Manhattan's Upper West Side, for 16 years before he was sacked in 2012.
The father-of-three claims in a lawsuit that the athletic director, Pat Krieger, took a disliking to him for being straight when she arrived in 2009 and treated the young, single women employees far better.
Krieger allegedly made Kenney coach three sports, even though his contract required him to coach two, and when he complained about it, she was unsympathetic, according to his suit.
Pat Krieger, left, the sports director at Trinity School in Manhattan and a lesbian, allegedly helped fire Gregory Kenney, right, because she disapproved of his traditional family status
After Kenney told Krieger that he couldn't work extra, she reported him to the headmaster but when a young, single female teacher had the same complaints, she accommodated her, the suit said.
He claims she 'routinely favored other single, younger females without children and discriminated against him because of his gender, sexual orientation, "traditional family status" and age'.
'I love the school. I love my job. I enjoyed the kids I was with and the classes I taught, but I have a wife and family. I'm not 16,' Kenney told the New York Daily News.
'He felt ostracized because of his family,' Kenney's attorney, Steven Morelli, told The New York Post.
