Priest fired over pro-LGBT Facebook post comes out as gay

Craig McCarthy reports Rev. Warren Hall claims he was fired as director of campus ministry at Seton Hall University over a pro-LGBT social media post.

Here, Hall leads a special mass for couples renewing their vows on Valentine’s Day 2014 at the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception on the university's South Orange campus. (Frances Micklow/The Star-Ledger)

Rev. Warren Hall claims he was fired as director of campus ministry at Seton Hall University over a pro-LGBT social media post. Here, Hall leads a special mass for couples renewing their vows on Valentine’s Day 2014 at the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception on the university's South Orange campus. (Frances Micklow/The Star-Ledger)

"Honesty with oneself is the most important thing, but you have to be honest with other people," Hall said in the interview while also reiterating his commitments to the Catholic Church.

Church officials have denied Hall's allegations that he was removed as the director of campus ministry at the university because of the Facebook post. The school has said decisions concerning priests were handled by the Archdiocese of Newark.

Hall has written the Archbishop for a six-month sabbatical but has not heard back or been reassigned, the report says.