Religious Camp Fires Counselor for Being Gay
June 16, 2019
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A day after posting pictures of him and his boyfriend on Facebook, the Bellingham, WA Fircreek Day Camp called counselor Jace Taylor into a meeting to discuss his termination.
“He sat me down and told me that I was terminated because of my sexual orientation,” Taylor said. “I wanted to bawl my eyes out, but I didn’t because it was a professional meeting.”
For Taylor, working at Fircreek, part of The Firs Camps and Retreats, wasn’t just any summer job.
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He grew up going to the camp.
“I totally knew they had this doctrine, but I thought because the world is being so progressive lately, I wonder if they’ve changed,” Taylor said.
Taylor says he feels he was mislead.
