Until last month, Lisa Howe was a beloved soccer coach at Belmont University in Tennessee. But after she told her team that she and her partner of eight years, Wendy Holleman, were expecting a baby, she lost her job.

Lisa Howe

In an interview with ESPN, Howe said she was not at liberty to speak about her firing.

But one student said that school administrators told Howe that her “morals and values conflicted with the Belmont’s mission statement” and that “she could no longer be an employee at the university”, according to Huffington Post.

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