Photo from Adam's Connexion profile.
Those here familiar with Adam knew he was tremendously excited to be leaving Denver to take a teaching position at an English language school in Korea. He was scheduled to leave on August 1st.
Adam wrote a diary on DailyKos.com about what went down so I’ll quote from that:
The Director [of the school in Korea] told me that one of his faculty members had discovered that I wrote a pro-gay article for a website, and had mentioned gay rights events on my Twitter feed.
So he asked me, point blank: “Are you a gay?”
I was not only taken aback, I didn’t quite know what to say. So I responded the only way I knew how.
“Yes, I’m gay.”
Adam continues:
I was told that someone of my “identity, politics, and religious persuasion (I’m an Episcopalian, and I can go toe-to-toe with just about anyone on biblical history, revisionism, and interpretational theology) wasn’t welcomed at their school. Just like that. 7 weeks until I leave. I quit my job, sold my apartment, car and belongings, and had spent hundreds on Korean lessons, only to be told that not only could I not come teach, I was not entitled to recourse with my contract. Korean law (or so they said, any help legal folks???) allows them to void the contract willy-nilly. I was offered $3,000 and told that this was the best I could hope for.
I’d encourage you to read Adam’s entire story here on Daily Kos.
Full disclosure: I am acquainted with Adam but do not know him well.
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