When the Rev. Warren Hall called a reporter for the gay sports website Outsports.com last week to discuss his firing as director of Seton Hall University’s campus ministry, there was a certain logic to his move.

Father Hall was, after all, both a sports fan who had ministered to student athletes and an advocate for tolerance who had posted messages on Twitter about current events like Indiana’s religious-freedom law and the Olympic gold medalist Bruce Jenner’s decision to make the transition from man to woman.

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