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To: Sandy01

What an arrogant jerk you are. I just asked a question. Since I have no authority over this woman or anyone else for that matter, I don’t get to “dole out anything”.

I do believe that a Christian school has the right to fire someone for behavior they consider unacceptable.


212 posted on 06/09/2010 11:31:43 AM PDT by beandog
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To: beandog

I think there are 2 issues.

Does the school have a right to fire the woman? I think they have a right to fire her for whatever reason they want because they are a private enterprise.

From a moral Christian perspective, should the school have fired her. That’s where I think they were wrong. She made a mistake. She repented and got married and she is not actively doing that sin.


219 posted on 06/09/2010 11:35:38 AM PDT by luckystarmom
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To: beandog
I do believe that a Christian school has the right to fire someone for behavior they consider unacceptable.

True, they do.... The real question, though, is whether in acting as they did, the administration of that school was acting in a Christian manner.

For whom did Jesus save his harshest condemnations? Was it the sinners, or for hypocrites who took it upon themselves to make moral judgments? You know the answer to that. The school has opened itself up to judgment -- it deserves to be scrutinized. Was it acting hypocritically, or not?

Jesus was not saying that we shouldn't make moral judgments and act on them; but He did say -- time and again -- that our motives and methods in doing so matter a great deal. Did the school act in accordance with how Jesus would have them act?

There's probably a great deal more to this than the story is telling us. For instance, perhaps the lady's behavior was more generally unacceptable, and this offered a convenient excuse to act on them.

But if we take the story at face value, one gets the feeling that the school's actions were not particularly Christ-like.

235 posted on 06/09/2010 11:58:14 AM PDT by r9etb
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