NEW JERSEY
NJ.com
By Erin O’Neill | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
on May 17, 2015
SOUTH ORANGE — An online petition launched by students at Seton Hall University calls for reinstating a priest who said he was fired as director of campus ministry over his support for a LGBT rights campaign.
More than 2,200 people had signed the petition posted on Change.org as of Sunday afternoon. A Twitter hashtag was also created to support Rev. Warren Hall: #WeWantFatherHall.
Hall posted on Twitter on Friday afternoon that he was “fired from SHU for posting a pic on FB supporting LGBT ‘NO H8.’ I’m sorry it was met with this response. I’ll miss my work here.” The “No H8” campaign started in 2008 after California voters approved a measure to ban same-sex marriage.
Seton Hall University repeatedly responded to angry comments on Twitter, saying that the Hall’s position is managed by the Archdiocese of Newark.
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