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In reply to the discussion: Catholic School To Pregnant Teacher: We Won't Fire You If You Get Married [View all]JayhawkSD
(3,163 posts)I was imprecise in my statement. The reference I meant was the teachings of religious organizations should not be regulated, rather than the organizations themselves.
When a teacher is employed by any school, be it public, secular private, or religious, that teacher is required to teach the program advocated by the school, using the textbooks provided by the school, etc. If the teacher does not teach what the school tells them to teach, for instance if a public school teacher starts teaching that the earth is flat, they will be fired. Anybody have a problem with that?
The Catholic Church teaches that sex outside of marriage is wrong. You and I may not agree with that. Too bad. That's what the Catholic church teaches and requires its teachers to teach. When a teacher hires on they agree to teach that. If they are unmarried and pregnant they are clearly not teaching that, and that is clearly grounds to be fired.
This school was trying to work with the woman. They said that if she got married she would not be a walking advertisement that she was having sex outside of marriage, that even though they knew she was not in compliance with what she was teaching they could pretend she was and would not have to fire her.
If she didn't want to get married she should have declined and resigned. The stink she is raising is in bad taste.
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