Posted on 05/11/2005 10:24:29 AM PDT by hoosierboy
My old church had it right. Adulterers got to teach, expound, fornicate with whoever and receive all the benefits of membership. We were truly Christian??? The minister did not feel he had the right to judge. The church gradually dwindled and closed.
Then why call her a whore? Why not just say you don't want someone in that position teaching your child?
We know people who lived in France, and when they showed people their wedding pictures they asked where all their kids were.
...John said she was told premarital sex is an act strictly forbidden by the school system and the Seventh-day Adventist religion.
I'm presuming that no one hired by the school has any children who were conceived out of wedlock & that the school has very carefully screened the past medical history & marriage dates of all the employees to make certain of this?
Clearly the Catholic Seven Day Adventist school was within its rights to terminate an employee whose personal views conduct are in direct conflict with religious teachings.
Private school.
End of discussion.
I think the school has a right to set its own policies. Seeing as how she wasn't very far along and she did get married, I think they should have kept her but I can understand why they want to uphold the policies they've set. It could have been worse--they could have fired her. Now she gets paid for doing nothing. Paid for maternity leave. Sounds pretty good.
That's rather decent of the school considering their position on the matter. Although she obviously violated her obligations with the school, she did correct the problem by getting married. Perhaps her acknowledgement of her wrong doing to the school adminstration would have allowed her to stay on as teacher. Of course, that's up to the school.
Its not the pregnancy that the administrator objected to, so much as it was the time off that would be given post-partum. The employee was doing her job without difficulty.
Also factoring in is that the administrators here get bonuses for cutting costs, and a woman about to deliver is a cost waiting to be cut.
I'm guessing that's the problem, she wasn't repentant.
Whether she has legal recourse or not, she said she'll look next for a job "with people who accept me.''
She violated the religious teachings of the Church, which runs the school, and also violated school policy.......she is on leave and her contract is not beng renewed.
Had they gone ahead and renewed her contract they would in essence being violating the rules and obviously they do not wish the children being taught, by example, that there are no consequences to breaking rules.
The teacher in the Delaware school was not teaching abortion was OK, however her actions were in direct contradiction to what was being taught. Same principle in my mind.
I don't know how I feel about this. On one hand, it is a private, religious school and they have a right to demand their employees live up to certain moral standards. On the other hand, people make mistakes and it looks like the teacher and her husband have taken responsibility for their actions by getting married. It seems very harsh to me to fire this women for doing the most responsible, Christian thing she could when she could've had an abortion or opted for single parenthood. But I guess that's still the school's perogative.
Well, it IS a Christian school and when you teach at a Christian school, you are expected to be a moral person. I don't see the problem with letting her go.
This is not a church, these are other people's kids.
If she didn't believe what she was doing is wrong, then apparently she never read her Bible. God is very strict about these kinds of moral failures. "Fornicators will not see the Kingdom of Heaven." That's pretty explicit, isn't it? I get tired of smorgasbord Christians who take what they like out of scripture and leave the rest. God says NO. Period.
Ugh, give me a break. If you can't count on a teacher being a role model in this society then we are in deep trouble. Everything adults or people in authority do to children of that age is what is being taught to children. I don't care what's in the lesson plan.
Because that's what she is, money or not. If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck......
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