Woman impregnated by artificial insemination canned by church

Thoughts?

So would Mary get shit-canned? Prolly!

 

Immaculate

 

From the Cinci Enquirer story:

Initially, the Archdiocese fired her for being single and pregnant. After it learned that could violate federal and state anti-discrimination laws, it fired her for being artificially inseminated, considered a “gravely immoral” act by the Roman Catholic Church.

Yeah, no problem here, eh?

 

Moral problem or legal problem?

I have a problem with their morality, but it should be legal.

 

From a moral perspective: as if I needed another reason that underlies why I'm a "lapsed Catholic" at best.

 

The Catholic Church - still not ready for the 20th 17th 15th 10th century.....

 

The fact that their first attempt was illegal should be a pretty good sign of what their intentions were.

 

I don't mean to take this into a political direction at all.... but I find it kind of fascinating that Rick Santorum isn't doing particularly well among Catholics.

I think we've reached the point where a huge percentage of Catholics think strict Catholicism is absurd. There was one poll I saw a few weeks ago that said 99% of women had used birth control, but among Catholic women that number plummeted... to 98%.

 

You can fire a teacher for getting knocked up out of wedlock. It's a morality clause, and many people brought it up here justifying the suspension of a certain Steeler quarterback.

I think it was horseshit then, and I think it's horseshit here.

 

Ding.. Ding ... Ding ...

 

One slight issue: The certain Steeler quarterback, at least for the first few years of his career, wasn't allowed to choose his employer.

 

I would love to see this go to court and the woman's lawyer call as a witness another school employee, one who went through IVF (or other medically aided means) with her husband because they couldn't conceive otherwise, and continues to work at the school. Given the percentages of such occurrence in the population at large, I'm guessing there has been one somewhere along the line.