A former Catholic school teacher says it was hard to be forced out of his job for not getting an annulment.Tom Girsch worked for three decades as a teacher and coach at Columbus High School in Waterloo.
He was forced to resign this summer and took the matter to court, suing the Cedar Valley schools and the Dubuque Archdiocese for breach of contract.
Girsch says -- quote -- "Fighting the church is difficult for us. They never want to talk about the legal part of this; they want to push the church part."
The trouble started for Girsch when he remarried a Catholic widow in August 2006, nine years after divorcing his first wife.
In the year after his second wedding, the school board took two votes on whether he could stay, and the archbishop weighed in on the controversy.
In the end, the social studies teacher was forced to resign after the archdiocese pressured to school board to follow church law.
Girsch's lawsuit is pending in court.
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