Dismissed with Prejudice

Dismissed with Prejudice

Workers are routinely fired because of their LGBT identity from religious workplaces—often Catholic schools—and learn they are not protected by anti-discrimination employment laws. Dismissed with Prejudice shares their stories through intimate interviews, exploring the real human toll such terminations take on these individuals and their communities, and analyzes how religious employers hide behind bad theology and unfair laws to avoid accountability. These are stories of resilient and wholehearted people who have overcome religious hypocrisy and a failed legal system, inspiring us all to make religion, the law, and the workplace more humane.

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February 24, 2025 94 mins

After years of studying theology and serving as a lay minister, Mark Guevarra decided to form an LGBTQ+ prayer and support group. Although many in the community welcomed the group, the local archdiocese did not. Mark was summoned for a meeting, told he was the subject of an ongoing investigation, and interrogated about the most personal aspects of his life. Instead of being thanked for his bridge-bui...

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Mark as Played

Matthew LaBanca is a triple-threat Broadway actor who was fired from his music jobs at a Catholic church and school after an informant notified the Diocese of Brooklyn that he had married his husband. In a rollicking yet utterly serious interview that spans childhood magic shows to a retreat for gay priests, Matthew and Matt discuss hypocrisy, the need to speak out, the miracle of shifting one’s ment...

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Mark as Played
October 31, 2024 1 min

Learn what Dismissed with Prejudice is all about from your host Matt Tedeschi.

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