“It was like asking her to take off a piece of her family,” said Hines, of Lauraville. The way they asked her to take it off was really embarrassing,” said Liam Hines, another 7th grader. “I think it was really awful what happened. Hoffman said the students organized this show of support as a way to stand with their classmate whose mother is gay. Many also wore white tee shirts with the rainbow-hued message, “I am a child of god.” He and dozens of other students, as well as parents and other adults, showed up at the church wearing rainbow-striped gay pride Covid masks.
“For the rest of the day, everyone was very angry about it,” said her 7th grade classmate, Dylan Hoffman, speaking at this morning’s mass. The teacher made her remove it in front of the other students as they stood at the back of the church. “Jack” Lombardi’s direction, witnesses told The Brew, the school principal directed the homeroom teacher to tell the girl her shirt would have to come off. Francis of Assisi Church in northeast Baltimore, the shirt caused a stir:Īt Father John J. She had worn it before on relaxed-dress-code days with no problem, she told The Brew.īut this past Friday, at the end of the mass that she and her classmates attended next door at St. Francis of Assisi School, wearing a favorite old tee shirt with a gay pride message on “Dress Down Day” was nothing new.
