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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't see what the big deal is. She chose to teach at a Catholic school. Catholic schools exist to spread the Catholic faith to the next generation. Any teaching position at a Catholic school generally involves a religious component -- the whole idea behind parochial schools is that the religious aspect is pervasive, its not meant to be confined to the religion class. Any school that is serious about teaching children the tenets of the religion has to at the very least enforce those tenets with the teachers who are either directly or indirectly supposed to be imparting them to the students. If the school does not, the students and wider community will think that the school, an arm of the Catholic Church, doesnot take its own doctrine that seriously. That is a huge problem, and directly undermines the faith that these schools are trying to instill. 
Freedom of religion is a great thing, and for it to exist, religions need to have the basic freedom to fire employees who don't follow their rules. I would also support an Orthodox Jewish school firing a teacher who didn't circumcise his/her sons.[/quote]

I guess for me, the question is, would her husband have been fired if he was the teacher and found out his wife was undergoing ivf? The catholic church allows so many men to get away with s lot of things, but ont let a woman try to break a single rule. [/quote]

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