An unmarried and pregnant 2nd grade art teacher sued her school for discrimination after she was fired for having sex before marriage. She just lost her case.
“While we recognize that the United States Supreme Court’s prior decisions provide broad latitude to religious employers regarding hiring and firing, we believe the NJ Supreme Court could have, and should have, held that a second grade art teacher was entitled to the protections of the Law Against Discrimination,” Alexander Shalom, the ACLU’s New Jersey Director of Supreme Court Advocacy, told CNN in response to the ruling.show.
In a meeting to discuss the role with the school’s principal, Sister Theresa Lee, Crisitello mentioned that she was pregnant. She was unmarried at the time.she was told that she’d breached the school’s code of ethics—a statute that required St. Theresa School’s employees to adhere to the teachings of the Catholic Church. As a result, Crisitello’s contract was terminated, and the role was filled by a married woman with children.
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