Fired for Premarital Sex? That’s Outrageous!

If there is one thing that really irks me, it’s people or institutions with “holier than thou” attitudes. Recently, a Florida teacher got fired from her job for engaging in (ready for this?) premarital sex or fornication by its other name.

How did the school learn of this sin? After all we don’t go announcing to our employer(s) every time we get laid and I’m not sure there is an employer with such a requirement in their policy, at least not in this country. Well, that is the other outrage.

Ms Hamilton, who is married, went to her boss to request her rightful six weeks maternity leave. That’s when she was hit with the question as to when she got pregnant. Is an employer, whether even a religious institution, legally allowed to ask for such details anyway?

That’s when Ms Hamilton’s boss figured out that the conception happened before her wedding date, a cardinal sin in her employer’s opinion, and fired her. By the way, Ms Hamilton works (oops, was working) for a Christian school.

As if this is not enough, the school thought it wise to rub salt to the raw painful wound by letting the entire staff, parents and students know about it. I’m not sure what The Bible says about defamation, but I think it is plain wrong.

And whatever happened to good old Christian atonement and forgiveness? Didn’t I read somewhere in The Bible about Jesus asking he who has not sinned to cast the first stone? What about the judging of others?

I want to assume that everybody that works for that school is or was a virgin before marriage, but I know that would be an outrageous assumption. But the school’s action is the bigger outrage.

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