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Kristi Maris, front left, poses for a photo with drag show performers at Hamburger Mary’s in Downtown Houston.
A teacher at a Houston-area Christian school says she and a coworker were fired after attending a drag show earlier this month and posting about the experience on social media.

Kristi Maris wrote in a Facebook post Monday that she was dismissed from her job of two decades for "attending a sing along show at Hamburger Mary's," a national bar-and-grill chain with a Downtown Houston location that features dinnertime drag performances.

Maris and the other teacher, who is not being named because the teacher has not publicized their dismissal, worked at First Baptist Academy in Baytown, according to a Tuesday report by Houston TV station ABC13.

"They told me because I went to this show and posted a picture I wasn't walking in a Godly manner," Maris wrote in her Monday post. "So that being said, please remove yourself from my page if this offends you, if you think this is unGodly, makes me a pedaphile (sic), or causes you to feel uncomfortable."

Maris and the other dismissed teacher did not immediately respond to social media messages Wednesday seeking comment.

First Baptist Academy, a private school for students in the seventh grade and under that's located at 505 Rollingbrook Dr. in Baytown, did not immediately respond to a voicemail and web message seeking comment.