It’s been decades since I’ve heard the word fornicate used in a legal context. There was a time when states enforced these laws. You could be arrested for screwing someone you’re not married to. Those laws haven’t been enforced for at least 50 years.
This teacher got fired for fornicating. Gasp! She got pregnant before she married the father. What on earth is this wicked world coming to? :eek:
However, this is a private Christian school. They fire people for drinking alcohol and smoking as well. Not that I agree with their policies, but it’s not the whole state of Florida doing this.
Just wait.
True, but the lawsuit will be decided in a Florida state court. So, in a way the people of Florida will decide.
I’d have a little more sympathy for the Christian School if the teacher was unwed.
I grew up in the Baptist church and the community was very religious. There was an understanding that babies born nine months after the wedding were honeymoon babies. You don’t count days or weeks early. That kind of gotcha game isn’t helpful.
I’m baffled why the school even asked. She only gave birth three weeks early. That’s close enough to fit into the honeymoon window. The school had no business sticking their noses into this. I hope the teacher gets a million dollar judgement against them.
And you better not commit adultery in New York.
This thread brings back unpleasant memories from my childhood. There was a kid in my school that got teased and bullied because she was a bastard child. There was a genuine social stigma for being born out of wedlock. The tragedy is that the child is the one that suffered for the mother’s indiscretion.
Young people swear today and casually use the word bastard. They have no concept of the burden that word put on kids not that long ago. The shame could literally warp their personalities. These kids were treated like lepers.
I remember the social stigma of this as well. And the general abuse heaped upon girls who got ‘in a family way’ outside of wedlock. Weirdly, the guys who were involved in the process were not ostracized nearly as badly.
When folks whine and moan about how terrible it is for people to live together and to have children without being married, I try to remind them of how crappy it used to be.
The good old days weren’t all that good.
“Dreams of Florifornication, dreams of Florifornication!”
[/Anthony Kiedis]
Premarital sex = Pro-life = Shotgun wedding = Apple Pie = The American Way
No fornicating in Florida? I shall inform the boyfriend. I don’t think it will go over well.
To quote Dylan Moran, Don’t fuck anyone or you’ll DIE!
No, in the article it says the baby was conceived three weeks before her wedding. First of all, why anyone would tell their workplace when their pregnancy started is beyond me. Second, that also makes this even more crazy. I wonder if the school was just trying to get out of paying maternity and vacation leave, and assumed that since she was with child she’d “obviously” be quitting her job to be a stay at home mom soon.
Well, I hope that teaches other people in her situation to do the right thing and get an abortion.
A similar situation occurred in my daughter’s catholic school three years ago. A teacher that had been with the school over ten years was fired when it was discovered that she was living with her fiance before the wedding. The wedding was to occur in a month and he had just returned from Iraq and didn’t want to get his own place for such a short time. She was fired for breaking the morality clause in her contract. I tried to get her reinstated but unfortunately, there were more people that agreed with the decision than disagreed.
This could be a killer slogan for the Florida tourist business especially in light of the oil spill.
Fornicate in Florida
brought to you by your local chamber of commerce…
Hey, not all of us. I specifically use the word bastard because I am a bastard. Three engagements were broken in my family because I came along and the social stigma made my family a pariah. The best thing my family ever did for me was bring me here. But I certainly haven’t forgotten.
Sounds like the court will decide on a issue of employment law, not really anything to do with fornication.
That page has a link to* this *thread. Wheeee!
I wish it said what school that was, because it sounds like the one I used to go to.
We provide the “lube” free of charge!
Apparently the legal issue is going to be what community standards are. There apparently was no explicit code of conduct which prohibited premarital sex just a general morals clause. So the school is arguing that having premarital sex is immoral and the teacher is arguing that it is not.