PORTLAND, Ore. - A Catholic high school in Portland, Oregon, has reversed its policy on gay employees after receiving a public backlash for refusing to hire a woman because she is a lesbian, school officials said on Thursday. The school board of the all-girls St. Mary's Academy voted unanimously late Wednesday to add sexual orientation to its equal employment opportunity policy. The school had come under fire after it last month withdrew plans to give Lauren Brown a job as a counselor because of her sexual orientation. Brown had accepted the job in the spring but was told by the school in July that she would not get it because of her 'impending marriage to a same-sex partner,' according to Brown's attorney, Gloria Trainor.
