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PostPosted: 12/28/11 6:00 am • # 1 
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I didn't think the Catholic Church could sink any lower after its horrendous mishandling of abuse cases, but it seems to be intent on testing out new lows ~ Image ~ Sooz

Outrageous: Catholic School Fires Teacher, Five Months Pregnant, for Choosing Artificial Insemination

Christa Dias was a teacher at Archdiocese of Cincinnati schools for nearly two years before, at five months pregnant, the thirty-one-year-old asked about maternity leave. But rather than grant Dias some well-deserved time off, the schools fired her because her baby was conceived by artificial insemination, Cincinnati.com reports.

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The Archdiocese of Cincinnati requires all employees to sign contracts stating that they'll adhere to Catholic social teachings, including the assertion that being pregnant sans husband is a gravely immoral act. Someone tell that to the Virgin Mary.

The school originally said it fired her for being single and pregnant, but they were informed that that's not technically legal, so they changed their tune to say they fired her for becoming pregnant via artificial insemination.

Dias was fired from Archdiocese of Cincinnati, where she was making $36,000 a year, in October 2010. Now the mother of a of an 11-month-old daughter, she is still unemployed. 

“She has a right to her opinion, but she doesn't have a right to violate her (employment) contract,â€



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PostPosted: 12/28/11 6:17 am • # 2 
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I didn't think the Catholic Church could sink any lower

Wait, they're working on it constatntly.


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PostPosted: 12/28/11 7:39 am • # 3 
They have sunk lower in the past. This is just an attempt to return to their former "glory".


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