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Should a Christian school be allowed to fire a teacher for fornication?

Should a Christian school be allowed to fire a teacher for fornication?

  • Yes, they should be allowed to demand a traditional Christian moral code from all teachers

    Votes: 25 35.7%
  • They should be allowed if they prove they apply the same standards to all teachers

    Votes: 3 4.3%
  • They should be allowed, but that doesn't make it right

    Votes: 19 27.1%
  • They are discriminating against women, since fornication is more obvious with them

    Votes: 3 4.3%
  • If the school board members can prove they never fornicated, then they stand on solid ground

    Votes: 2 2.9%
  • Christian schools should not be allowed to discriminate on moral grounds

    Votes: 9 12.9%
  • Christians are the biggest bunch of hypocrites on the face of the Earth!

    Votes: 5 7.1%
  • Other response

    Votes: 4 5.7%

  • Total voters
    70
She isn't a child. She is an adult who is able to understand the consequences of her actions.

I never made the claim she was a child so your rebuttal to that is irrelevant.

If that wasn't part of the arrangement that she agreed to than she shouldn't have accepted it.

It's an understood and implied agreement between the employer and the employee. It is also governed by federal labor laws.

That's part of the risk that one takes.

And part of the risk an employer takes when they decide to be abusive and discriminate is that they get sued and pay through the nose for it. And I can almost guarantee that's what will happen. It will probably come in the form of the school settling first just to make the PR nightmare go away.
 
I always find the moralists on this particular subject silly. See, almost all of them had premarital sex, just like almost all of us here on this thread and everywhere else in the world.

Before somebody here says it isn't right just because everybody else does it, I'll just say it is normal. It's what we do. We have a sex drive, and we act on it. Make it morally wrong if you want to (not you personally, necessarily), but it is the normal way humans behave.

Why are you assuming that these people judging her have had premarital sex?
Do you have statistics or research on that?
 
I dont think a school, Christian or not should have a rule against unmarried adult staff having sex as part of their private life, outside school time, and outside of the school.

So, they fired her? So much for Christian forgiveness.
 
I dont think a school, Christian or not should have a rule against unmarried adult staff having sex as part of their private life, outside school time, and outside of the school.

It would have stayed private had she not told them.

So, they fired her? So much for Christian forgiveness.

She broke the moral clause that was explained to her upon hiring. Her fault, not that of the school forgivness or not.
 
It's an understood and implied agreement between the employer and the employee. It is also governed by federal labor laws.

Which has been shown numerous times does not apply here. The state laws are clear and show no violation.

And part of the risk an employer takes when they decide to be abusive and discriminate is that they get sued and pay through the nose for it. And I can almost guarantee that's what will happen. It will probably come in the form of the school settling first just to make the PR nightmare go away.

As I said before, I would be willing to make a little wager on that. You up for it?
 
''She broke the moral clause that was explained to her upon hiring. Her fault, not that of the school forgivness or not. ''
Ah, in that case they should never forgive her. In fact, I wont either. I will get a mob together to hunt her down and burn her at the stake.

''It would have stayed private had she not told them.''
She could have told them she is not pregnant. She just has a backetball up her shirt.

Christianity belongs to a society which existed 2000 years ago, where its morals did in fact have a civilizing effect. These days, they are just clinging to a wish to drag society back 200 years.
 
She can't win.

Yes, I think this is likely true. But, she can still have a healthy level of disgust for a school which insists on useless 'morals'. If reasonable moral standards are applied, it is the school who are being immoral.
 
Is the school at least going to give her a good employment reference, or are they not Christian enough to be so nice about it?
 
Ah, in that case they should never forgive her. In fact, I wont either. I will get a mob together to hunt her down and burn her at the stake.

Ridicules fallacy argument that really has no bearing.

Forgivness and accepting punishment are 2 different things.

She could have told them she is not pregnant. She just has a backetball up her shirt.

The baby was conceived 3 weeks before the wedding. No she did not have to say anything.

Did you read the story?

Christianity belongs to a society which existed 2000 years ago, where its morals did in fact have a civilizing effect. These days, they are just clinging to a wish to drag society back 200 years.

And this has what to do with the thread or the article?

I mean this is nothing but anti-Christian rhetoric and opinion, not really anything to debate.
 
Yes, I think this is likely true. But, she can still have a healthy level of disgust for a school which insists on useless 'morals'.

She agreed to them upon hiring. Doh!

If reasonable moral standards are applied, it is the school who are being immoral.

I suppose you have evidence to back this up? I mean morals are pretty subjective, so I kind of doubt it.
 
Is the school at least going to give her a good employment reference, or are they not Christian enough to be so nice about it?

Yea, non-Christians telling Christians how to be Christians.

Pot meet kettle.
 
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I mean morals are pretty subjective

I suppose you are right then, because just about anything could be put under that umbrella and called moral, no matter how it affects human beings. But, in my opinion, morals should support human rights and not religions 'rights'.
 
I suppose you are right then, because just about anything could be put under that umbrella and called moral, no matter how it affects human beings. But, in my opinion, morals should support human rights and not religions 'rights'.

Then what would be the point of being a Christan school? To teach atheism?
 
''Ridicules fallacy argument that really has no bearing.''
It was a joke. Sorry to confuse you. Christianity brings out my cynical side. I made a joke out of it, as an alternative to being scathing about the disgusting hyprocrites.
 
Then what would be the point of being a Christan school? To teach atheism?
That teacher should tell the priest who runs that school to go fcuk a choir boy.
 
It was a joke. Sorry to confuse you. Christianity brings out my cynical side. I made a joke out of it, as an alternative to being scathing about the disgusting hyprocrites.

It was in no way "a joke" it was an insult that like this post serves no purpose but to bash Christians. It does not add anything to the thread or further the discussion.
 
It was in no way "a joke" it was an insult
Yeah, I suppose it was. :D

''It does not add anything to the thread or further the discussion. ''
Well, we are talking about religion and not something serious.
 
That teacher should tell the priest who runs that school to go fcuk a choir boy.

It was not a Catholic school. It is a Protestant school who have no priests or nuns etc. :doh
 
Yeah, I suppose it was. :D

''It does not add anything to the thread or further the discussion. ''
Well, we are talking about religion and not something serious.

Obviously you are here for the wrong reasons.

So you have a good day.

God bless you.
 
It was in no way "a joke" it was an insult that like this post serves no purpose but to bash Christians.
Dont bash Christians. Feed them to the lions. Those Romans knew how to deal with them.
 
If this truly was a Christian school, then "forgiveness" would have been a large part of things. Obviously, its not, but the school is still "right", legally, if not morally.
Morals are still important, must be taught, but forgiveness must not be forgotten.
 
If this truly was a Christian school, then "forgiveness" would have been a large part of things. Obviously, its not, but the school is still "right", legally, if not morally.
Morals are still important, must be taught, but forgiveness must not be forgotten.

But forgiveness does not mean bypassing punishment. She is an adult a new their would be consequences to her breaking the moral code she agreed to upon hiring.

I can forgive a person who steals from me, this does not mean they should not accept the consciences of their actions.
 
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