Monday, February 10, 2014

A Montana School Just Fired a Teacher for Getting Pregnant. That Actually Happens All the Time.


http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/02/catholic-religious-schools-fired-lady-teachers-being-pregnant

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Last month, a Catholic school district in Montana fired middle-school teacher Shaela Evenson for becoming pregnant outside of marriage. Evenson, who taught literature and physical education at Butte Central Catholic Schools for nearly 10 years, was dismissed after the school district received an anonymous letter revealing her pregnancy. Despite the fact thatEvenson's principal has called her an "excellent teacher," officials at the Roman Catholic Diocese of Helena, which oversees Evenson's school, are standing by their decision. They contend that sex outside of marriage violates the morality clause in the teaching contract Evenson signed. On Thursday, Patrick Haggarty, the superintendent of Catholic schools for the diocese, told the Montana Standard, "It's not easy being a Christian or a Catholic in today's world. Our faith asks us to do things that right now are not popular with society." The diocese, the school, and Evenson's attorneys did not reply to requests for comment.
are places like Catholic schools and churches harming the social maturity of their charges, to punish for natural reactions, hey their track record sucks anyway on that subject, upwards of 98% of Catholic women have or do use birth control so are all of them going to purgatory for enacting human nature?
Firing unwed teachers who become pregnant is not uncommon for private religious schools. It's not necessarily illegal, either. Although federal law generally forbids discrimination against pregnant women,
the Supreme Court has ruled that religious employers are protected from certain discrimination lawsuits brought by employees who serve in ministerial roles. For example, they have the right give preference to job candidates who share their religion, if the purpose of the job is primarily religious. 
Religious organizations are permitted to require employees to sign a religious contract, but they must enforce these contracts equally for men and women. In a recent legal analysis,Lauren E. Fisher, a professor of law at Washington and Lee University, pointed out that this is inherently impossible.
"The majority of sins do not present themselves with hairy palms, growing noses, crossed eyes, or anything else that would make one's sins obvious—except for the one instance in which there is glaring evidence of moral transgression: pregnancy outside of marriage," Fischer wrote.
is this a war on women religion style, because men show no signs other than crap eating grins they are not subject to equal opportunity firing for their part in that which fires the women. it's wrong they send priest that violate kids off to another parish to do it again but a woman gets fired, if their ever was a time for a Pope Frankie it's now, right along side our Pres.