Tag: The Firs

Washington teen Jace Taylor has lashed out against the Bellingham camping organization The Firs after losing his job as a camp counselor because he is gay. Taylor had grown up attending The Firs functions and looked forward to his summer job as a camp counselor. On June 11, leaders of The Firs contacted Taylor over a photo of himself with another man he’d posted on Facebook. Representatives for the camping group asked if the man in the photo with Taylor...

Jace Taylor has been going off to supper camp at the Firs’ Christian Camp for years with his siblings. This summer, as he prepares to go off to college in the Autumn, he decided to appliy to be a camp counselor at Fircreek, one of the organization’s many campsites. He was accepted. Then the camp found out that Jace Taylor was gay when they spotted a photo of him and his boyfriend on social media. They called him into the...