In an update two a story from a couple of years back:
Wilmington, DE (LifeNews.com) — A teacher at a private Catholic school fired for signing a newspaper advertisement promoting abortion lost her appeal in her lawsuit against the school. The 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a district court ruling in the case saying the woman’s rights were not violated when the school fired her.
Ursuline Academy, a private Catholic school in Wilmington, fired Michele Curay-Cramer after she lent her name to a pro-abortion signature ad. She filed a lawsuit saying the school violated her First Amendment free speech rights.
But Circuit Court Judge Jane Roth, writing for a three-judge panel of the appeals court, upheld the district court opinion tossing her lawsuit.
Before the court heard the appeal, Curay-Cramer’s attorney, Thomas Neuberger, told the News Journal newspaper, "We hope to ultimately prevail because we believe that since 1990 the Supreme Court has ruled that such institutions are not exempt from the civil rights laws."
Curay-Cramer expected controversy when she attached her name to a signature ad sponsored by a local Planned Parenthood. Her name appeared with 600 other local residents in support of the thirtieth anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion.
The ad was the first time she went public with her involvement with the nation’s largest abortion business, where she had started volunteering in April 2002.
Ursuline Academy officials said she should have been aware of the school’s strong stance against abortion when she got involved promoting it.
"The Catholic Church is very much pro-life," said former Ursuline spokesman Jerry Botto. "This is an area of the church where there is no gray area — it’s black-and-white. In keeping with that, that is something we teach here."
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Good!
It’s too bad we have to go to court over such things, but encouraging that the Delaware courts are not this intrusive.
Yet.
“We hope to ultimately prevail because we believe that since 1990 the Supreme Court has ruled that such institutions are not exempt from the civil rights laws.”
I’m glad to see the courts realize that Curay-Cramer is not the only one with civil rights in this case.
Moral of the story?
Catholic schools should never hire teachers with hyphenated surnames.
Der Tommissar – I think you have something there.
Yes, they are fools and hypocrites but they are also insidious moles who think they can fly in under the radar and undermine the Church’s teachings.
Unfortunately, we have much work to do.
I do not mean to equate all these issues, but there are many “catholic” schools in this country with teachers who support abortion, live with a shack-up honey, have children out of wedlock, support same-sex “marriage”, euthanasia, and/or embryonic stem cell research and they are not made to feel like hypocrites.
On the contrary, the narrow-minded parent or faculty member who points out the situation are made to feel like Pharisees.