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unhappycamper

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Tue Feb 11, 2014, 07:38 AM Feb 2014

Fired teacher challenges school’s morality clause: Baby bumps more ‘obvious’ than hairy palms

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/10/fired-teacher-challenges-schools-morality-clause-baby-bumps-more-obvious-than-hairy-palms/



Fired teacher challenges school’s morality clause: Baby bumps more ‘obvious’ than hairy palms
By Scott Kaufman
Monday, February 10, 2014 12:13 EST

A Catholic school district in Montana fired a middle school teacher last month after it received an anonymous letter indicating that the woman, who is single, was pregnant.

Shaela Evenson — who was, by all accounts, an excellent literature teacher — was fired by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Helena for violating the morality clause of her contract.

Evenson “made a willful decision to violate the terms of her contract” by having sex outside the sanctified bonds of wedlock, Superintendent Patrick Haggarty told The Montana Standard.

In January, Pope Francis not only encouraged women to breastfeed in the Sistine Chapel if their children were hungry, he baptized a child born to a mother who wasn’t married in the Church.
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Fired teacher challenges school’s morality clause: Baby bumps more ‘obvious’ than hairy palms (Original Post) unhappycamper Feb 2014 OP
The dichotomy is obvious to everyone . orpupilofnature57 Feb 2014 #1
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