Posted on 02/05/2014 9:19:16 AM PST by marshmallow
Edited on 02/05/2014 10:14:38 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
BUTTE, Mont
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Good for this diocese. I can’t believe she didn’t just resign. It shows the lack of respect she has for her students that she first of all got pregnant, then didn’t resign.
Does her “right” to a job trump the Catholic Church’s right to enforce a freely negotiated contract? Common sense says no, but common sense has no place in the present regime.
She should have resigned at the time she made the decision to engage in fornication.
Seems reasonable.
Once she decided to commit fornication she should have resigned.
A unmarried teacher at a private school gets pregnant and is fired for not living up to the moral code clause in her contract. I see nothing wrong here.
I might disagree with the diocese’s actions here. This isn’t like firing gays living as marrieds. This is a person who screwed up and took responsibility rather than having an abortion.
On the other hand, if she brazenly proclaims she did nothing wrong...
**” which requires her to respect the moral and religious teachings of the Catholic Church in both her professional and personal life.**
Isn’t this true for all of us?
Why is this news.
The Federal government has its own religious purity rules for employment, like being openly supportive of homosexuals. Failure is considered heresy and punished mercilessly.
Why is this even news?
The teacher knew the rules before doing the work.
But then again, the incident does give the MSM to once again demonstrate that when one is too stupid to even be a politician, they can be a journalist.
I don’t know that I agree. although it puts the diocese in an award position.
She obviously did something that almost any Christian Church considers to be sinful, however all of the other teachers, administrators as well as the student population are not without sin.
Maybe a leave of absence would have been a better choice. Even an unpaid leave of absence.
Agree 100%
Contracts and torts are the very basis of American law. They are first-year if not first semester law school courses. Progressives want to do away with both, as they are a hindrance to their goals.
Agree 100%.
I wonder whether the school can countersue for breach of contract.
Reacting to the pregnancy makes it seem as if pregnancy and childbirth are wrong. They are not. Sex outside marriage is wrong.
Unfortunately, fornication isn’t visibly obvious, so it’s natural to react to the consequence. However, the Church needs to strongly reiterate the point that it is not this woman’s (or any woman’s) pregnancy that is a sin. It is any man’s or woman’s having sex outside marriage.
(I know you know this, of course.)
She has no case. The U.S. Supreme Court decided this issue las year.
I really cant blame the school, she violated the contract. But I have to wonder, if it was a male teacher who did this and got some lady preg, would the same rules apply?
And none of the other faculty have ever had sex outside marriage or used birth control? Let he who is without sin cast the first stone . . .
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