Usually, when there is an expensive medical procedure, and insurance turns you down, you file for an exception and/or ask for a reason. Sometimes the insurance co just tries to avoid paying and you have to fight them.
They certainly could have done that but many insurance plans do not cover elective fertiltiy treatments - period. If it’s not in the coverage, fighting won’t do you any good. If you had a plan that, for example, covered one try but not multiple trys, you might be able to look for an exception.
And again, she’s not Catholic.
that’s just appalling!
I don’t know if it is the Church particularly, or if it’s just the rules of a private Catholic school.
And again, she works at a Catholic school, and agreed to respect the religion. According to her, the priest said she was a sinner. So she was fired because she was a bad example to the kids and her fellow teachers. That is certainly part of religious rights of the school to employ teachers who respect their religion.
Marriage is a public act; even the state requires witnesses to the consent of the parties. If you have an employment contract that requires you to act in accord with the teaching of the Church, you have two choices:
Every teacher signs a one-year contract that states they will live according to the moral teachings of the Catholic Church. If someone is married outside the Church they are not eligible to work in a Catholic school. If someone is already an employee and then publicly violates Catholic moral teaching they are in violation of their contract and subject to termination. Its pretty straightforward and they are all aware of it.
Then they shouldn’t have hired her in the first place. But they have and now they have to deal with the fact that she doesn’t subject herself to the rules of the Church.
). I can see how it might slip past the first time while perhaps another teacher who is more knowledgable finds out and then brings it to the school’s pastoral administrator.So you think we SHOULD discriminate on the basis of religion? Teachers do subject themselves to the rules of the Church if it is in their contract. All the teachers have that in their contracts. That is equal treatment, not discrimination.
They did deal with it, they did not renew her contract.
Thank God in Australia the church has no such rights!
I rather like having our government bound and gagged when it comes to religion. Sorry you’ve never gotten to experience the level of freedom that we have in America.
Well, the New World was colonized by people fleeing religious persecution, and when the United States of America was formed the need to protect religious liberty was the number one thing that the founders wanted.
I think you would find the “other half” is just as adamant about religious freedom as we are if it were their beliefs under attack by the government.
what u call freedom I would call a cult…the catholic church in America by the standards of Australians is nothing more than a BULLY and a DANGEROUS CULT!