Its official! Discrimination in Catholic Schools
Editor of National Review Online, Kathryn Jean Lopez writes today about a Wisconsin-based Catholic school where a teacher was fired for artificially conceiving her twins. Furthering the curiosity on how a pro-life institute might have issues with pregnancy, she explains it was because the teacher had used in vitro fertilization to conceive. IVF usually unintentionally involves the destruction of embryos, and hence drawing ire from Catholic Church.
In a fervently religious environment that the country is under siege during present administration, the role of teachers to question assumptions have become secondary to their roles as upholder of Church traditions, however irrational they may be.
So does such a teacher have a claim to a discrimination suit? The Catholic schools which procure authorizations from teachers upon their entry to act as mouthpieces of religious dictums do not think they have a right to rebel later on. The affected population thinks these are classic cases of non-implementation of state from the church.
Lopez quotes Vatican official Archbishop J. Michael Miller, secretary of the Congregation for Catholic Education, as explaining: “To fulfill their responsibility ... educators in Catholic schools, with very few exceptions, should be practicing Catholics who are committed to the Church and living her sacramental life. Despite the difficulties sometimes involved, those responsible for hiring teachers must see to it that these criteria are met.”
Plain and simple, it means that teachers at Catholic schools should never become pregnant while on job, and if they do, certainly they cannot take a decision in favor of abortion or ‘selective reduction’ (in case of triplets etc). Doesn’t that bite you?
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