The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) announced yesterday that it delivered a letter to the Vatican on behalf of nine teachers in Roman Catholic schools who were fired because they are LGBT or pro-LGBT.

In its announcement, HRC noted the “frightening trend” at Roman Catholic schools across America of including clauses in teaching contracts that bar LGBT people and pro-LGBT activities by teachers at these schools. These are “draconian laws” that are “designed to force LGBT people back into the closet and silence straight allies,” HRC said.

HRC is so shocked by these clauses that it collected over 30,000 signatures on a petition asking the Archdiocese of Cincinnati to remove such a clause from its teacher contract, the HRC press release noted.

We agree.

We want the HRC that issued yesterday’s press release to talk to the HRC that is promoting the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), which only bars employment discrimination and contains a religious exemption that would allow Roman Catholic schools and every other religiously-affiliated institution in America to fire LGBT people and even people who are pro-LGBT.

They can’t be the same HRC because if they are then yesterday’s press release was an act of cynical manipulation that was intended to make the LGBT community believe that HRC opposes what these schools did when, in fact, it wants to make such firings legal under federal law. That sort of hypocrisy should be beneath any LGBT community group.

Or are we wrong?