Posted on 06/08/2006 12:17:34 PM PDT by NYer
Wilmington, DE, Jun. 08, 2006 (CNA) - The Third Circuit Court of Appeals, yesterday, decided in favor of the Ursuline Academy of Wilmington, which was accused of sex discrimination after they fired a Pro-abortion teacher. The case had named the Academy itself, as well as some of its former employees, the Catholic Diocese of Wilmington, and Bishop Michael Saltarelli.
Michele Curay-Cramer taught English and Religion at Ursuline Academy, an independent Catholic school in Wilmington, Delaware. In January 2003, on the 30th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Curay-Cramer signed onto a full-page ad in the Wilmington News Journal, praising the Roe decision and declaring her pro-abortion position. The Ursulines, however, are a decidedly pro-life organization and on the same day were sponsoring a field trip of its students to Washington, DC to protest the Roe decision and declare the school's pro-life position.
Following her public declaration on abortion, Curay-Cramer was terminated by the school. Curay-Cramer quickly sued the school (and others), claiming her discharge was sex discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Today’s decision rejected Curay-Cramer’s claims under Title VII and affirmed a motion of dismissal, granted in November 2004, by the federal District Court.
According to a release from the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, a nonpartisan, interfaith, public-interest law firm which filed the motion for dismissal, one of the claims under Title VII was again dismissed because it threatened to violate the First Amendment, but two others were found so weak under Title VII that the Court did not even have to reach the constitutional question.
Anthony Picarello, President & General Counsel of the Becket Fund said in the press release that, "The Third Circuit reaffirmed what should have been obvious all along: Title VII was not designed to prevent a religious school from firing a teacher for publicly repudiating the school's religious teaching. To rule otherwise would threaten fundamental religious freedom interests of the school guaranteed by the First Amendment."
Why is this even an issue?
We didn't join YOU. You joined US.
Is the world about to end?
An actual sensible decision from the courts makes me wonder if this is the end time.
Duh.
Or should be.
I lay you dollars to doughnuts this woman wasn't born and raised in NC... if she was she'd know better than to try such a crap case as this there.
That sort of crap might fly in Mass or NY or CA.. but no way NC would do anything but laugh her out of the courtroom
I do not trust hyphenated women.
*Never* trust a woman who uses a hyphenated last name.
This is DE, not NC.
Too bad the Archdiocese of Boston wasn't allowed the rights affirmed by the 3rd Circuit.Recently the Commonwealth of Massachusetts ruled that a Catholic adoption service was required to place kids with homosexual "couples".
The Archdiocese shut down the operation rather than comply.
Great news!
What about a man who hyphenates his last name with his wife's last name first (I know one of those) or a man who takes his wife's name (I know one of those as well)?
Yup. Them double-barrelled names are murder. In this case, pro-choice, which is one of the great euphemisms of all time.
He's a pussy.
Assuming you are ... Heck, they're even less to be trusted.
i am roaring because that is exactly the thought that popped in my head but i was much to genteel to type it out! thanks for expressing my unspoken thought!!!
Ughh...I bet you have some interesting conversations with said "men"...
Do these men also wish to wear fake breasts so that they can nurse their children? Don't laugh...there is such a product.
Yeah, it's hard not to laugh at them.
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