She is considered a minister in the Church because she is a teacher in a religious school. She may not consider herself one, but the school, and the parents who pay the bill, do. It is irrelevant weather she believes that she violated her own moral code, she violated the Churches. She stated in her accepting her employment contract that she would live by the tenants of Catholic Morality. She engaged in premarital sexual activity while employed as a teacher in the Catholic School showing contempt for the moral standards of the employer, a Private Religious institution with an exception from EEOC and Federal Law based on the 1st Amendment to the Constitution.
Pregnancy has NOTHING to do with her dismissal. It is a byproduct of the immoral act that was the just cause of her dismissal based on the morals clause in her employment contract that she freely chose to sign.
Show me where the case in point showed the church law overruling a federal law. I’ll wait patiently.
“Pregnancy has NOTHING to do with her dismissal.”
Really? How did they know she had been immoral?