SEATTLE (WA)
Aljazeera America
by Amel Ahmed @amelscript December 20, 2013
Students from Eastside Catholic School in the Seattle suburb of Sammamish protested outside the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Seattle Friday following news that their vice principal was forced to resign for marrying his same-sex partner.
The demonstration followed a Thursday sit-in and subsequent walk-out at the school, which has middle school and high school students, after students learned that Mark Zmuda, 38, would have to leave his position.
Caelan Colburn, a student organizer at the Friday protest, told Al Jazeera that about 150 students from various Catholic schools in the area convened in front of the archdiocese in support.
The Eastside Catholic School announced Thursday that classes would be canceled Friday due to forecast snow “and in light of the difficult day” the school had experienced when hundreds of students staged the sit-in.
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