Bakerst’s choices and morals here are appearing uglier the more she has to say.
Yes, one would presume she is living with him, as she calls him"partner" - that is today’s tagline for “live-in lover with an ongoing sexual relationship”. And she was going to move with him, til the pregnancy came about. She is only not-moving with him now for the
money - not for any moral reason.
Some of you may think it charitable to assume her un-saids mean she is doing everything on the up and up. Pardon me but I will just comment on the impressions as she gives them, and not attribute some loftier possibility to them. She is free to correct any wrong assumptions.
She wants her job for the money, she is not concerned about the morals she is teaching and should be upholding, only what she can get away with, and keep her paycheck. Basically, she has chosen to live the life as a hypocrite. Nice start for baby. But she will get money!!!
Perhaps she has not come across our Church’s teaching that
the end does not justify the means?
It is not so lofty for her to use the excuse that she is prioritizing materially providing for her baby. Even criminals and murderers provide for their own children. So big deal. Not impressed.
I think my suggestion to ask the opinion of a holy and wise priest what is the right thing to do and spend time considering his advice is going to fall on deaf ears. She seems disinterested in moral advice, she wants
practical advice, and to know what she can get away with. Which her contract adviser has told her. If she were morally motivated, she would seek the counsel of a priest reputed to be wise and holy BEFORE she asked what she can get away with in her contract (She can’t get fired for being pregnant! Woo-ee!).
And I did say find a priest with
a reputation for being wise and holy. As there are some priests (and chaplains) with a reputation for being pleasantly and indulgently tolerant, and never speaking of sin.
Its true what Bakerst said - if a male were in this situation, he could
hide his sin! And she cannot! The evidence cannot be hid when you are a woman. What
terrible discrimination against woman! Gee!
Bakerst will certainly find support. Getting pregnant outside of marraige will probably gain her plenty of sympathetic support - it is politically and culturally correct to fawn over her! She may have the support of the majority of her colleagues who will express no concern over her marital state. And the engagement ring can fool many into politely assuming the best, that she is not planning on continuing in the same lifestyle that got her in the situation. And they would be wrong! But the ring helps deceive the intentions she has stated here, that she will continue until she “feels like” making it right.
Cafeteria Catholics may be in the majority in her Catholic school among staff and among the poor students, who are catechized by the likes of Bakerst. But I feel certain God has not abandoned that school and so there are some who will be deeply troubled, particularly if her intentions to not-repent get out, and while she is called as RE to teach her students otherwise. Object lesson in hypocrisy?? It will likely cause some to pull their kids out of school. But that won’t affect Bakerst’s paycheck, so, that will be okay!
I realise that some posters are going to get really annoyed. Bakerst has not aborted her baby, so every other choice she makes here on in should be heralded! I disagree, and so does God. His Word makes it clear that the
teachers of His faith are held to a much higher accountability than the rest of us. And since she asked our Catholic opinion on a Catholic forum, and she claims to be Catholic and is
teaching our faith, we need to give a Catholic opinion, not an emotional opinion, not an opinion that reflects popular culture!
God is clear on the high standard he holds Bakerst to:
“Not many of you should presume to be teachers, my brothers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly.” James 3:1
Yes, bakerst should be aware of this, and also how God judges one who leads his little ones astray:
“Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea." Matthew 9:42.
And is anyone else completely sickened that Bakerst compares herself situation to the situation of Our Blessed Mother, Ever Virgin, who conceived Our Lord in total chastity by the power of the Holy Spirit???
This is really disgusting! Is anyone else seeing this??
There you go, Bakerst. You said, “Judge me as you will”. Well, I judged your actions and your words. That’s fair game. And my responsibility as a Catholic.
Sister in Christ, you are in grave sin on many accounts. Repent, and be saved.
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