They're awful for doing it, but I'm sure they fired her because of the obituary in the paper. The people she works with at the school have probably known she was gay for years, but when the name of her partner appeared in the newspaper all the conservative nut jobs probably started calling and demanding she be fired.
MaryDell
MaryDell
I do understand your larger point, but let's not wear blinders. Most public school teachers sign contracts with a "moral turpitude" clause which means that, if the school district chooses, it can fire the teacher for anything which is in gross violation of the community's moral standards. Teachers in public schools…
Sad, but also true. They've got their bases covered every which way.
Oh, I agree that it isn't just or nice or anything other than grossly hypocritical. For example, you don't see them firing teachers who only have one or two children even though birth control is officially off the table, now do you? It's just that, as I'm sure you know based on your screen name, the courts are…
They are within their rights, but it doesn't make it any less of a crappy thing to do. By the way, on a purely semantic note, unless a Catholic school is run by a religious order it's not a "private Catholic school." It's a diocesan school if it's run by the Diocese of Columbus (as seems to be the case here) or a…
They're awful for firing this woman, but within their legal rights. Yes, most Catholic schools accept money from the federal government and thus must abide by the Civil Rights Act; however, there is almost certainly a clause in the teacher contract which requires employees to abide by the teachings of the Catholic…
You can legally marry your first cousin in most states even today — 27 of them, in fact. If you go far enough back in your family tree — sometime in the 19th century for most people — you will probably find relatives who married a first cousin. People lived in small towns, they didn't date, so there weren't a lot of…
Think of it this way: you share a set of grandparents with your first cousins; you share a set of great-grandparents with your second cousins; you share a set of great-great-grandparents with your third cousins and so on. "Once removed" indicates that you don't share any grandparents and you are one generation…
Possibly, or maybe because they've seen children with autism they can imagine it happening to them, but because they've never encountered a child dying of measles or diphtheria it just seems impossible? Either way, they are seriously lacking in both historical perspective and common sense.
Some day cares are exceptional, most of them do no harm, and some of them are awful. Part of the solution is to pay the workers decently so that quality people will be attracted to the job. Another positive development would be to let children go to daycare to play, listen to music and books, and take a little rest.…
I'm going to attempt to make all of you feel better. I have never had a child and my body looks pretty much like the lady in Fiorentino's chalk drawing. Not quite sure why "many commentators have found this woman's body shape puzzling." Maybe because most women they meet are wearing clothes so they don't notice…
It's pretty easy to go online and access death records from 100 years ago. Go check out the numbers of children (often multiple children in each family) who died from measles, diphtheria, typhus, and a host of other diseases the modern mom and dad don't really need to worry about in the US. I suspect those parents…
It's judgmental, simplistic, and pat to imply that long-lasting relationships are between those with strong emotional ties to one another and that relationships that end in divorce are between those with weak emotional ties to one another. People can love each other very much and yet their relationship can still fall…
Whenever anyone asked us why we didn't have children my husband used to reply, "Because I'm impotent." That usually shut pretty much everyone up.
The worship of youth puzzles me. We usually look better in our youth and probably enjoy better health, but life past 25 or 40 (gasp!) still has an awful lot to recommend it.
Who paid for this presentation and how much did it cost? Never mind — found it on the other article.
Oh, I'm not under any delusions that the Diocese of Arlington would respond out of any sense of justice or fairness. They would simply respond out of a fear of being sued. Fear of lawsuits pretty much drives every US diocese today. And, as I said, it would probably result in all three of the students being expelled…
No, it's not sad at all. However, just be warned that sucking at every sport they touch does not necessarily mean that athletics will not be more important than everything else.