The former Vice Principal of Eastside Catholic high school who was fired when administrators discovered he had married hismale partner revealed today that he could have kept his job if he had gotten a divorce.

Mark Zmuda said in an interview with one of his former students that the Catholic school's president, Sister Mary Tracy, informed him that if he consented to divorce his husband, he could keep his job.

Catholic doctrine considers divorce "a grave offense against the natural law."

So Zmuda, a practicing Catholic, was surprised when Sister Mary Tracy recommended divorce as a remedy for his dismissal. "I thought...they were against was also divorce," he said in the interview. "I'm a little shocked that was even on the table to have me keep my job. They also offered for me to have a commitment ceremony if I were willing to get a divorce."

School attorney Mike Patterson disputes the claim that Zmuda was fired, claiming that he offered to resign after the December meeting with Sister Mary Tracy. He also claimed the divorce suggestion was "purely hypothetical."