Is this the right thing to do?

"A Catholic school teacher in Minnesota has issued allegations of pregnancy discrimination saying the school asked her to resign from her job even though she did not have an abortion. Emily Prigge is 23-years-old and unmarried and, she says school officials asked her to resign after they learned of her pregnancy."

Read more about this below:

http://www.lifenews.com/state2891.html

I don't approve of the discrimination issue but,

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They told her she had violated a statement she had signed agreeing to be a positive Catholic example in the school.

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I agree that if she violated the terms of her employment contract, her termination is justified.

But as i recall from my Catholic upbringing, one particular unwed Mother is fixture in the Church.

It seems to me that it's not impossible to be a positive Catholic example while being an unwed mother. Surely some student of the school may find themself in that situation some day, and may need a positive role model to look up to.

Perhaps the school doesn't realize that they message they are sending is that unwed mothers should be shunned?

"As I recall from my Catholic upbringing, one particular unwed Mother is a fixture in the Church."

Amus, though I was raised in a different faith, that is exactly what I thought when I read this story too.

The article Craig posted has some additional information there toward the bottom I found particularly interesting. This probably belongs in the other thread, but I have a question:

I wonder what steps pro-life advocates have taken against the many corporations who "suggest" abortions as a matter of unwritten policy?

Yea, but she got that way without having sex.

Or, you could give Joseph credit where credit is due.

After all, fancy stories about the origins of babies are standard practice. It has been that way for centuries.

"Yea, but she got that way without having sex."

But how do we know this person isn't carrying Jesus in the second coming?

There's a noodler.

Could be the anti-christ too. One just never knows...

Seriously, as much as I dislike the idea of this, that woman understands the culture where she works. Buying into that --or at the least supporting it comes with implications.

This just happens to be one of them.

Having gotten the boot, now she is completely free to reconsider who she chooses to support and why that matters. Work some place with crappy culture / values / ethics, and sometimes bad things happen, or at the least maybe get known for furthering madness.

There is a lesson being learned here. Bummer it has to go the hard way, but there could be worse things.

Just another one of the many reasons the catholic church sucks. Personally, I'd like to see her make an EEO case out of this and win. Maybe the church could use the same vigilance towards putting their child molester priests in jail.