Kristi Maris attended a drag show during her time off and was punished by losing her job.
According to local reports, Maris went with an unnamed co-worker and her daughter to a drag show on July 13, and posted some photos from the event on Facebook the following day. Shortly after, her employer, First Baptist Academy, called to let her know after 19 years on the job, she’d been fired.
According to local TV station KTRK, the school dumped Maris and her co-worker for allegedly violating a section of the school’s manual requiring teachers to
act in a godly and moral fashion at work, on Facebook and in my community.”
Maris told KTRK,
I feel like we were treated like criminals.”
Kristi Maris, a devoted educator at a Christian school for 19 years, was terminated after attending a drag show with her co-worker and daughters.https://t.co/L0ur6Qp3hC
— OutSmart Magazine (@outsmarthouston) July 27, 2023
(image, ACLU; via The Daily Beast)
