Beginning May 12, 2009 three major events took place. Two were to turn out to be positive, one for me and the other for GLBT students, but the first in the series was negative and, if it hadn’t been for the second, would have collapse my world around me.

As this is the 10^th anniversary, I am going to relate each event on the actual anniversary of each.

I had written a letter to the new superintendent of The Oklahoma City Public schools. In the letter I had questioned such things as the number of teachers who were suddenly deemed failures, most put on Plans for Improvement, but who had been responsible for the important test scores that had the school meeting all federal requirements while allowing the principal to claim ours was the best school on the planet; and why some teachers who were suddenly receiving negative documents in their files were told these would be removed if they were to transfer to another school or another school district beginning the following year.

So when I was called to a meeting with the superintendent, I was surprised that the Regional Area Director and my principal had been asked to be there. The meeting had nothing to do with my letter, but was for him to express his concerns about my poor performance and lack of professionalism as attested to by those at the meeting other than myself and the union attorney. It was clear he had accepted as indisputable what he had been told by those with a vested interest in removing me, and he clearly was not interested in anything that could contradict this, as when offered the chance to look at evidence in my favor, he refused to. I resented that once again the tactic of blind-siding a teacher was being used, and I was more than curious why all these other people were there. Clearly they knew why they were there while I did not.

I did my best to explain myself and answer his concerns, but it seemed this meeting was simply pro-forma as a prelude to an action yet to be taken. That action, when taken, was to recommend to the School Board that in light of what the others at the meeting had told him, and without his looking at anything that might have contradicted this, my contract should not be renewed at the end of the year and I was to be dismissed.

I had been advocating to make the inclusion of GLBT students in the district’s policies on bullying. Harassment, and nondiscrimination clear by having sexual orientation added to existing language, but, as this was uncomfortable for the administration in the Buckle of the Bible Belt, it was obvious that eliminating the messenger would silence the message,

Within a few days I received notification that there would be an emergency meeting of the School Board at which a date would be set for a hearing before the Board. As one member of the Board pointed out, it seemed suspicious that in order to non-renew a teacher who had been in the system for fifteen years a special meeting had to be called merely to set a date for the actual hearing when it was obvious I was most likely not going anywhere in a hurry. But, regardless, a date was set for a little less than two months from this meeting.

In preparation for this important meeting I had a number of meetings with not only my Union attorney, but a private attorney I had asked to help with my case in the event there was a possibility of a charge against the district beyond “Wrongful Termination”. Although it would be up to the Union to show much of what had been deemed negative about me was fabricated as a way to arrive at a predetermined conclusion, the private attorney would hold that the action of these administrators accepted first by the superintendent and then the Board began when I criticized the Regional Area Director for her interference during the meeting back in 2006 which kept two students from my school from addressing the Board after the words “Sexual Orientation” which had surprisingly been added the online version of the student and parent handbook  were suddenly removed from the on line version of the district‘s Student and Parent Handbook without explanation.

The Hearing Officer, who was supposed to be neutral, ruled in pre-hearing meetings with attorneys for the union and for the administration, ruled that much of my evidence would not be allowed because it was contradictory to the charges. What videos I had could not be used if any students could be seen, and this effectively eliminated the union‘s ability to show that a charge of not involving and engaging my students was simply not true. As it was to turn out this was an important exclusion as a major charge was just that, and the Board admitted I had not shown any evidence to counter that at the non-renewal meeting.

It was also decided by the Hearing Officer appointed by the administration that in accordance with the established procedure both sides would have only sixty minutes to present its case, but with the Union having to do its complete presentation in one sixty minute block, while the administration could divide its time in two parts, the length of each to be determined by them without my side having any opportunity to rebut what they might bring up during the second half of their presentation which sandwiched ours. She also ruled that, rather than being the aggrieved, I was merely a witness to events, and if the Board members had any questions after the Union presentations, I could not answer them. This was to make the Union‘s defense look weak as obviously they could not answer some of the very pointed questions which I could have easily answered.

These rulings by the Hearing Officer seemed to make a predetermined outcome obvious and unavoidable.

A number of people were present at the dismissal hearing, and although many were there to support me, it seemed odd that there were some teachers present in support of the administration when teachers usually did not attend meetings of this nature. I was not surprised by who they were.

Although this “emergency meeting” was called specifically for the hearing, oddly there was an item on the agenda that was scheduled for a short duration before my meeting, but with questions and speakers to the item this took over two hours. Why another matter had been scheduled for the same meeting was interesting to say the least.

Once this was completed, and after a few minutes break my non-renewal hearing began. Much of what the administration brought up to support the superintendent‘s recommendation for my non-renewal was a rehashing of all the previous charges many of which were based on fabrication. The administration began with a twenty minute presentation leaving themselves an additional forty minutes after the union‘s presentation to, as they did, present additional allegation to which the Union could not respond.

When both sides were done, various members of the Board asked my Union Attorney questions, which, as I have stated, could not be addressed to me. The Hearing Officer had also ruled that my attorneys could not consult with me in order to answer questions if I had information that could be useful. Many questions, therefore, had to go unanswered. It had also been ruled that no new material was to be brought up or documents consulted in order to answer any question, nor was anyone but the attorney to have input into the answers. The Hearing Officer stopped the Union attorney at the least sign he might consult me or bring up a document to answer a question. However, this did not apply to the administration‘s attorney who freely consulted constantly with the administrators to answer questions and who freely introduced material to which my attorneys could not respond as they had only been allowed that one sixty minute block to present anything.

Toward the end of the meeting and prior to a decision, one of the School Board members, knowing full well I was not allowed to answer any questions, asked a number of questions directly and in rapid fire, and then, as the whole situation was high profile, when interviewed by the media claimed the proof of my having been properly charged was that I did not respond to his questions with any answers.

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The member who abstained explained her action by saying that neither side had presented a compelling case, which ignored the statute holding that in dismissal hearings the “Burden Of Proof” was with the administration. If neither side had a compelling case, with the teacher not required to have one while the administration was, then her vote should have been cast in favor of the teacher and against the superintendent‘s recommendation.

Both Board members who voted against non-renewal were clear on the reasons they voted as they did, while the President of the Board stated to a member of the press the next day,

“I think that it is important that the Oklahoma City Public Schools to identify teachers who are not doing well in meeting the needs of our students. I did not believe based on the evidence presented that Joe Quigley fell in that category.”

Things, however, as bad as it seemed at that moment, were not final.

The Union‘s next step was to file for a Trial De Novo which called for a trial in District Court at which we could challenge the dismissal as a wrongful termination, and at which every piece of evidence I had could be presented without any control exercised by the school district or its obviously partial neutral Hearing Officers.

The Union attorney was clear in his reasons for objecting to the Board‘s decision and the action taken because, as he stated,

“[the administration] had singled him out, applied a double standard, micro-managed him, and instituted a relentless scorched earth policy to get rid of him.”

My personal attorney was also very clear,

“The attempt to fire Mr. Quigley, a career teacher with a stellar record, appears to be driven by a vendetta against Mr. Quigley after he advocated for better protections for Gay and Lesbian students. Mr. Quigley will be pursuing this at the next level, which is Trial de Novo in the Oklahoma County District Court. Mr. Quigley and I will also be considering other legal avenues including the potential filing of a discrimination case in federal Court.”

In any event, as a result of the vote, I was expected to go quietly away with my contract at an end with all monies owed to me paid out and any contributions to retirement or health care stopped as of the last day of June. In the meantime, as I had not been suspended, it was expected that I would report to school for the remainder of the school year as if nothing had happened and all was as before.

With over 250 sick days still on my account, and with the district only expected to buy off 120 of these at a minimum amount, I decided that rather than save the district the money that would be needed to pay for a substitute while I waited out the year, they would have to spend it anyway. And, so, I took a few days off from school. Not only was this because any motivation I might have had was certainly killed off, but I did not want the administration to be able to claim, no matter how untrue, that I had used class time on a captured audience to discuss my situation both then and in future plans. I could not have such a discussion if I was not present to have it.

However, by filing for a Trial de Novo the district was obligated to pay my salary, benefits, and retirement contributions until the decision of the District Court was handed down. This could be for a number of months, virtually constituting a paid vacation. I was not adverse to this.

Some people chose to summarize the mess as my being let go because I was Gay and open about it. In reality my sexual orientation might have been an undercurrent, but the main reason for the superintendent‘s action promoted by certain administrators was that I had openly advocated for Gay students and did not back down when I was expected to. This could have happened to any teacher regardless of his or her sexual orientation, and if left unchallenged could have a chilling effect on any teacher who might see such advocacy as necessary, but may be fearful of losing their career, certification and livelihood.

The expected response of the Board’s decision was for me to just go quietly away, as every teacher who had faced this Kangaroo Court procedure had done in the past, but with the need to have GLBT students protected, this went beyond me so that was not going to happen this time.

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Back in 1993, Donald Trump saw the proposed  Foxwoods casino in Connecticut as a threat to his Casinos in Atlantic City. People in New England and upstate New York might prefer to go to a closer casino in Connecticut than take the longer trip to New Jersey.

So he objected in the halls of congress as the casino would be owned by a Native American tribe.

The Pequots were set to operate the Foxwoods Casino and High Stakes Bingo hall, and Trump saw a threat not only from that casino but from all Indians who run casinos.

At one point in his testimony, the soon to fail casino owner told members of the House subcommittee to

“Go up to Connecticut and you look. They don’t look like Indians to me. They don’t look like Indians to Indians.”

When he was asked after the meeting what Indians look like, he replied, “You know. You know.”

He went on to claim,

“It will be the biggest scandal ever, the biggest since Al Capone … . An Indian chief is going to tell Joey Killer to please get off his reservation? It’s unbelievable to me”.

He claimed members of the tribe would be grabbing at the money brought in like greedy little kids grabbing at slices of a pizza.

The purpose of the subcommittee was to learn more about how Indian casinos are policed and regulated, but Trump, who we now know was in the middle of losing over a billion dollars through poor business transactions, introduced patronizing racism.

Although he had prepared a seven-page statement to read, he decided,

“I had a long and boring speech. It was politically correct and something that would have gotten me into no trouble whatsoever”,

but he chose, as he usually does, to go off script.

Among his claims he stated, “Nobody likes Indians as much as Donald Trump”, just as no one loves the GLBT Community or (your group’s name here), but “There is no way Indians are going to protect themselves from the mob. This is gonna blow.”

While he complained,

“You have a group of Indians in Connecticut, I’ve heard $300 [million] to $400 million [in profit]. They don’t pay taxes. Why not distribute the money to other Indians? I believe this tribe has 300, 400 members (he actual number was 280). Do you think it’s appropriate for 300 [members], who lucked out with a location between New York and Boston, shouldn’t give some of the money out to others?”

he was one of 200 hundred financiers in the 1980s who profited with leveraged buyouts in New York City, but didn’t spread the wealth.

He now brags about this and how he played the “game”.

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Jump ahead to November 2017 when Trump was president.

Connecticut sought Interior Department approval to allow the Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan tribes to open a new casino in East Windsor. The Connecticut law authorizing the new casino required federal approval of the compact amendments before the casino could go forward.

With the Interior Department declining to allow this there was the possibility for a lawsuit against the Interior Department.

The casino would be the only full casino run by an Indian tribe off tribal land or on land held by the federal government in trust for a tribe, making them subject to the Indian Gaming Regulation Act.

The Trump administration has tightened the rules on Indian gaming with all applications being reviewed by the Department of the Interior and not the bureau of Indian Affairs, reversing the Obama administration practice of approving “land into trust” applications that allowed tribes to build off-reservation casinos.

Recall that in the past Trump had filed a lawsuit against the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act that claimed the law gives advantage to “a very limited class of citizens,” American Indians, at the expense of other citizens, to prevent the Mashantucket Pequot tribe from opening its casino.

He is now in a position to get revenge.

But it appears his animosity is not limited to the Pequot tribe, but to any tribe who might do better with their planned casinos than he did with his failed ones.

For 12,000 year, the Mashpee Wampanoag have inhabited Southeastern Massachusetts and were the people who helped the Pilgrims survive when they arrived in Plymouth.

Last year Trump decided to strip the Mashpee Wampanoags of their federal tribal recognition.

Among other things, this put a halt to the tribes proposed casino in Southeast Massachusetts.

Congressman Bill Keating of Massachusetts proposed H.B. 312 that would reinstate their federal designation and allow them to build a casino on their land,  but the day before the legislation was to be voted on, Trump sent out a tweet,

“Republicans shouldn’t vote for H.B. 312, a special interest casino Bill, backed by Elizabeth (Pocahontas) Warren. It is unfair and doesn’t treat Native Americans equally!”

Just as his 1993 objection to the Pequot casino included racism, this tweet also included it.

Add this to his having opened lands historically held by Native Americans as sacred to mining and drilling, while aggressively granting pipeline rights through such lands as well so that corporate profits overrule religious beliefs, and it would seem that his claim that “Nobody likes Indians as much as Donald Trump”, only holds if he doesn’t want revenge for their having been more successful at something than he has been.

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What would you do if, because you were a tax exempt entity who uses without paying anything to build or support public services and infrastructure and by keeping all the money that comes your way, you had money that could address the needs of the least of God’s children?

Would you follow the words of your Savior,

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or would you use it for politics or to harm others while still claiming you were faithful to what your religion stands for and is based on?

Apparently it would usually be the latter.

Here’s what the nation’s eighth-largest and Christian nonprofit did.

The National Christian Foundation, the largest Christian grant maker and one of the largest donor-advised funds in the nation, donated $56.1 million to a series of organizations identified as hate groups from 2015 to 2017.

With donor-advised funds, such as the National Christian Foundation, individuals send tax deductible contributions, remaining anonymous from the IRS, and earmark where they want the payments to be sent without any visible record of to whom they really want the money to go.  In this case money was sent to 23 organizations that the Southern Poverty Law Center has labeled hate groups who oppose GLBT rights and to other groups that are anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant organizations.

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Steve Chapman, a spokesperson for NCF has explained,

 “NCF is a national network of givers who are working to further the generosity movement in the areas they care about the most. Like other donor-advised fund sponsors, NCF helps thousands of generous people give to the charitable causes they care about, and we help them do so in the most efficient and effective manner possible.

 In 2018, we sent $1.7 billion in grants to more than 26,000 charities who are bringing clean water to the thirsty, homes to the homeless, food to the hungry, healing to the hurting, and much more. We are solely focused on helping people give generously and wisely to their favorite charities.”

Interestingly the record shows that some charitable causes are purely political.

Donors can present an acceptable image of themselves by donating to a “Christian charity”, when they are actually making donations that would be deemed unacceptable.

A Christian charity allows money to pass through it in order to politically deny American citizens their human and Constitutional rights, and use money to influence politicians to act on that.

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