Posted on 09/06/2014 2:30:30 PM PDT by NYer
INDIANAPOLIS — A lawsuit by a former Roman Catholic schoolteacher who says she was fired by a northern Indiana diocese for trying to get pregnant through in vitro fertilization can proceed to trial, a federal judge has ruled.
In a mixed ruling this week, US District Judge Robert L. Miller Jr. in Fort Wayne said Emily Herx deserves a chance to prove her claim that her termination by the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend was based on sex discrimination.
Herx, of Hoagland, Ind., sued the diocese in April 2012, alleging that her firing violated the Civil Rights Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act by discriminating against her based on gender and on infertility. But Miller denied Herx’s claim that she was fired for her infertility, rather than the treatment itself, which is banned under Catholic doctrine.
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Ping!
When did we start having Remote Control teachers?
Who is controlling them?
RC has come a long way but this is just a bridge too far.
They should go back to having only Nuns handle the teaching.
Does the diocese also fire any teachers who use birth control?
sex discrimination... that had to do with an action she engaged in... what is the world coming to
What nuns?
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“A lawsuit by a former Roman Catholic schoolteacher,” is quite different from what is probably the truth, “A lawsuit by a former teacher at a Roman Catholic school.”
The Left never relents. They are very good at chipping away at civilization.
more importantly ... what’s the frequency, kenneth ?
Once upon a time all Catholic schoolteachers were mainly Nuns and a few Priests, were they not?
I’m saying we should go back to that.
You're going to need nuns to do that. At one point they had almost 200,000 nuns in the country. Right now they have less than a third of that, and a substantial number of those are reaching retirement age. I went to Catholic school in the 80's and 90's. Never met a single nun.
Why would the school even know about this unless she talked about it? Sometimes I think people want to be fired to bring a lawsuit to retire happily to Bermuda.
Church law
“[M]arriage does not confer upon the spouses the right to have a child, but only the right to perform those natural acts which are per se ordered to procreation. A true and proper right to a child would be contrary to the child’s dignity and nature. The child is not an object to which one has a right, nor can he be considered as an object of ownership: rather, a child is a gift, “the supreme gift” (58) and the most gratuitous gift of marriage, and is a living testimony of the mutual giving of his parents. For this reason, the child has the right, as already mentioned, to be the fruit of the specific act of the conjugal love of his parents; and he also has the right to be respected as a person from the moment of his conception. (Instruction on Respect for Human Life 8)”
This makes NO sense. The “mutual giving” of his parents would not include rape——nothing mutual about that. What about those babies???
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“They should go back to having only Nuns handle the teaching.”
That would be great. Now, just come up with 40,000 or so nuns and we can do that.
“What about those babies???”
They’re babies. And?
“This absolutely is sex discrimination. They would never have fired a man who participated in an in vitro fertilization.”
How would they even know about it?
Lots of teachers would find this unacceptable. I get that. And those who do, really ought to find a different employer.
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