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Related: About this forumRockwall teacher fired for out-of-wedlock pregnancy
Still, that couldn't help save her job when she first admitted her pregnancy during the fall semester, with the school terminating her based on a violation of her contract's morals clause because it was determined her pregnancy meant she could not serve as "a Christian role model."
"I looked it up and thought, 'They can't do this,'" the 29-year-old Samford told WFAA. "We all have different views and interpretations. It's not necessarily the Christian thing to do to throw somebody aside because of those."
While Samford and her lawyer, Colin Walsh, are working toward filing a discrimination suit against the school, their case may be complicated by the fact that Heritage Christian Academy is a private school, and recent Supreme Court decisions have defended the right of Christian schools to exert more influence on their hirings and firings because they consider teachers to be "ministers in the classroom."
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/highschool-prep-rally/former-coach-fired-christian-school-wedlock-pregnancy-145601399.html
ejpoeta
(8,933 posts)they don't want any pregnancies 'out of wedlock', but she is having the baby so.... I don't think they should be able to fire you for getting pregnant out of wedlock, but this is a religious school... I guess they can do what they want?!?
woodsprite
(11,916 posts)So if she had been raped and the pregnancy
was a result of that rape, AND she looked on it
as a blessing, then she would be doing the right
thing by carrying to term out of wedlock?
Or would they still say she didn't meet their moral
standard?
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boston bean
(36,222 posts)1st block in the group! Congrats!
iverglas
(38,549 posts)Perhaps, as host, you would put a request to MIRT for consideration of the situation.
edit - oops, it's going there as I posted.
In our new friend's ideal world, everybody is free to look for other work if they don't like being paid $1 an hour to work with toxic chemicals without protective gear, or if their employer decides that employees of colour, or Jews, or women, should be paid less than other employees.
There are names for people who support that kind of "freedom", i.e. absolute freedom of those with economic power to determine the standard of living that others will enjoy. And those names don't include Democrat, or progressive ... (They do include "liberal" as the world outside the US understands that word. )
In this case, we are seeing "unintended consequences", that we might suspect are not unintended at all -- the consequences of privatizing an important public function/interest like the education of children.
Actual education becomes secondary to other considerations, in ways that are not in the interests of the children or of society as a whole, and obviously of employees. The more situations like this are allowed to spread, the less "free" an employee will be to find other employment, as the field of other employment shrinks. That, on top of things like the harm done to the quality of education in the public system, as the private sector reduces the public system's ability to serve special needs students, for instance, by reducing its funding base. Not to mention the plain ignorant graduates the religious sector produces, hardly the outcome a modern society should be looking for.
boston bean
(36,222 posts)But they are not sure and are watching.
I hit a TOS alert, and realized they were already discussion prior to an alert being sent.
they now have a hidden post, so they might decide to PPR.
I am on MIRT, but since I blocked in the group, I didn't feel right about PPRing myself.
maddezmom
(135,060 posts)why don't you come in and make your opinion known? Why sign up if you're not going to participate?
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)so she doesnt feel she should discuss this issue in MIRT
is how i interpreted it.
maddezmom
(135,060 posts)especially if she blocked him from this group. Anyway thank for the info, backing out of this group.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)maddezmom
(135,060 posts)was just trying to figure out the situation. Won't make the mistake again.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)i thought it was helpful.
hlthe2b
(102,298 posts)BlueIris
(29,135 posts)Keep the sickos out, please.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Why do I get the feeling that, in addition to being moralizing religious right turds, the proprietors of this institution don't put a very high value on science?
PassingFair
(22,434 posts)It was a sales job....I told her to shove it.
So it's OK for a church to mandate that their employees can't have sex.
Cause that's the land of the free and the brave.
BlueIris
(29,135 posts)That is vile. That just takes the cake for employer sponsored vileness toward women.
PassingFair
(22,434 posts)controlling asshat.
I had to get a lawyer to get unentangled with her.
She didn't want anything to interfere with her "plans".
BlueIris
(29,135 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)I have enough on my plate just running my own life... Where do these controlling asshats find the time to run other people's?