After a teacher at St. Ann Catholic School in Normandy had been fired in February for planning to marry his male partner in New York later this month, officials with the Archdiocese of St. Louis pointed to a document the teacher had signed when he applied for the job.

The document, which the archdiocese calls a "Christian Witness Statement," says employees "will witness by their public behavior, actions and words a life consistent with the teachings of the Catholic Church."

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