The Devil Comes Back to Queens

We New Yorkers have a tendency to get all high and mighty over our state’s supposed uber-progressiveness. And then reality slaps us with some nonsense like this:

The New York Civil Liberties Union has filed an official complaint to the Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on behalf of a Queens teacher who says she was fired because she got pregnant out of wedlock.
St. Rose of Lima School terminated Michelle McCusker’s contract last month, after she told school officials she was pregnant.

Despite the fact that McCusker was praised by the principal for her “high degree of professionalism,” the Brooklyn Diocese says that the teacher didn’t “follow the principles contained in the teachers’ personnel handbook.” The book requires that teachers adhere to the Catholic faith by their words and actions. Translation: Unauthorized fucking will get you fired.
McCusker said at a press conference yesterday, “I also don’t understand how a religion that prides itself on being forgiving and on valuing life could terminate me because I’m pregnant and choosing to have this baby.”