A California woman was fired after her supervisor at a San Diego Christian college asked her if she was pregnant. The sin, so to speak, was not the pregnancy itself but the fact that Teri James, 29, was not married when she conceived. This violated San Diego Christian College’s “community covenant,” signed by a not yet pregnant James, which is a two-page contract asking its employees and students to abstain from drugs, alcohol and tobacco and “abusive anger, malice, jealousy, lust, sexually immoral behavior including premarital sex, adultery, pornography and homosexuality, evil desires and prejudice based on race, sex or socioeconomic status.” Well, the prejudice part is nice, at least.
James, who is herself Christian, is suing the school and being represented by Gloria Allred. Allred pointed out that the covenant “does not say that you will be fired if you do not comply.” What the school did is also likely illegal under the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978, which “prohibit[s] sex discrimination on the basis of pregnancy.”
James called out the not so “Christian” behavior of the school, which she referred to as “hurtful and un-Christ like”: “I was unmarried, pregnant and they took away my livelihood. San Diego Christian College did not show any mercy or grace towards me.”
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Ridiculous, but from what i understand, she signed the contract… right? She shouldn’t work for a dumbshit employer if she doesn’t want to get fired for a dumbshit reason.
This from an institution that wouldn’t look too kindly on abortion