Teacher fired for premarital sex?

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

I know some have applauded the school for not appearing to draw a distinction between her transgression with her fiance and some slut puppy/whore dog who was sleeping with anything that moved, but I think the fact that she was in a committed relationship which lead to marriage should have been a consideration - "Go forth and sin no more", as Jesus said.

Eh, I'm kind of over the slut shaming myself. "At least she wasn't a slut" perpetuates a negative attitude towards women and sex.

If you agree to a set of rules, it's not really any more OK to break them just because. Forgiveness requires penitence, and I don't think she was particularly sorry, nor IMO should she have been. But she shouldn't have worked for that school if she was going to violate the rules and/or was going to fess up to it.

She MARRIED the man, and is hardly what I would consider a bad role model. How many of those on the school board were virgins when they married? Can we check and see the birth dates and weights of their children and do the math? So if she had snuck off and had an abortion that would've been okay, because no one would have had to know?

There's breaking the rules and there's getting caught. If you're going to break the rules, then don't get caught. There's nothing more OK about having an abortion (in their minds) and that's a misleading road to go down. She's probably not the only one who's violated the code but she got caught. Just like how "everyone" speeds but only a few people get caught. If the people enforcing this rule are hypocrites and have violated it themselves or allowed others to skate, that's one thing, but you don't really know that one way or the other.

I totally understand the need to model a Christian life - but that should also include the acknowledgement that it is possible to make a mistake and reform yourself, as she apparently did. What, they didn't give her a scarlet "F"? I'm far too familiar with this type of sanctimonious holier-than-thou Christianity - and it stinks.

Why is there an assumption that she wants to "reform?" I get the whole forgiveness aspect but if she's not sorry for what she did then she's not really going to go "sin no more" is she?

I hate this aspect of religious schooling and think it should be handled differently, but I think some of the arguments are ridiculous too. I'm basing my opinions on the understanding that she signed a contract. If that's wrong, I'll re-evaluate. But assuming she did, the school had every right to fire her, even if that makes them asshats. And telling them they should have forgiven her instead is trying to tell them what they should believe which is a road that I think we would prefer not to go down ourselves.