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Gay substitute teacher wrongfully fired by Catholic school after announcing wedding

Sep 06, 2021 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -8% Center

  • Reliability

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  • Policy Leaning

    8% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -2% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : Their October wedding announcement on Facebook came after North Carolina allowed same-sex marriage.
41% : Judge Cogburn Jr ruled that they had broken under labour law and were not protected by religious liberty exemptions on 3 September.
36% : According to local reports at the time, a Diocese representative said Mr Billard was fired for "going on Facebook, entering into a same-sex relationship and saying in a very public way that he does not agree with the teachings of the Catholic Church", according to the Charlotte Observer.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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