(DENVER GAZETTE) – A fired Douglas County School District coach and administrator filed a lawsuit in federal court last week against his former employer, alleging it terminated him for his religious beliefs about a well-known theater production.
Corey McNellis was terminated from Parker’s Ponderosa High School in October 2020 after exchanging emails with colleagues about “The Laramie Project,” a play that follows the aftermath of the murder of Matthew Shepard, a gay Wyoming man.
In the lawsuit, McNellis states that he asked the school’s theater director what recourse he had if he “disagrees with the production,” as both an employee and the father of a student.
