The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Catholic school that terminated a teacher for having premarital sex, according to court documents.

  • BrainisfineIthink@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    I agree and I’m not saying it makes sense to rationale people but objectively in this case, the optics hold water. This is a fundamentalist Catholic school with nuns. The teacher was unmarried and was also pregnant. The optics of an unwed pregnant teacher, teaching kids whose parents put them in a Fundy school where pre-marital sex is an explicit no-no does put the staff in a very awkward position.

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      1 year ago

      The awkward position of their evil patriarchial cannibal death cult beliefs being exposed?

      Papists shouldn’t be allowed to run schools. No religion should.

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        1 year ago

        Yes.

        And while I agree with the idea that churches shouldn’t run schools, they do and have done for a long time, and as long as people keep sending their kids there, they will continue.

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        1 year ago

        As I said, I agree completely. But the teacher was hired into that environment and knowingly signed a puritanesque ethics clause and broke it. That’s why the case was upheld ultimately.

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          1 year ago

          So what? Just because you put something down in a piece of paper doesn’t mean it should be legal.