Yes, because when this woman conceived is clearly the school's business. "Ye who are without sin may cast the first stone" ring a bell, anyone? And she damn well better get some compensation.
That's exactly what I was going to respond with -- how is it any of the school's business when she conceived? How does this effect her ability to teach?
What's really weird is that all this seems to go against the whole "judge not lest ye be judge" thing in regards to this woman (and her husband)'s "great sin". It all seems rather hypocritical.
I was reading the comments (I know, I know), and someone made this point, they even copy and pasted the whole "Let ye who is without sin cast the first sin" Bible passage, and some commenter "Genius" said "You're taking that out of context!" WTF??
Wow. I mean, the entire story (if I'm remembering correctly) is about Jesus stopping a crowd from stoning an adulteress to death by pointing out the hypocrisy of it all; women having sex out of wedlock shows up in both cases, for Pete's sake.
I know. Reminds me of the *wonderful* Christian high school I went to, where a teacher told us that it was okay to judge people (be they single moms, GLBT folks, divorced people, whatever), so long as you are judging them *righteously* (whatever that means).
I remember one Bible teacher in particular that I had said that non-believers and liberal Christians always trot out the example of Jesus stopping the mob from stoning the adulteress to death when trying to justify "sinful" behavior. Whatever. Shit like that is why I am not a Christian and probably never truly was.
Well TBH part of the problem was that it was just the woman. According to the Torah both people caught in adultery had to be stoned. The point there was that if he didn't stone her he was lax on sin and if he did then he was unjust because the man wasn't getting stoned either. Jesus just found a way to get out of the situation that they had intended to be a catch 22.
This. The hell-hole of a "Christian" school I went to had a code of conduct that was insane. People broke it all the time, but no one admitted to it. (I went to family weddings where alcohol was served, I didn't drink it, but that was still a violation.) Her main stupid here was admitting the kid's due date.
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I remember one Bible teacher in particular that I had said that non-believers and liberal Christians always trot out the example of Jesus stopping the mob from stoning the adulteress to death when trying to justify "sinful" behavior. Whatever. Shit like that is why I am not a Christian and probably never truly was.
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Pretty much. It's a good thing I'm not her because as soon as they would have asked me them, I would have asked them "What business is it of yours?"
Something tells me that if the roles were reversed, no one would be asked a male teacher exactly when his wife conceived.
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