Judgment or Mercy in Montana | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: The idiot in Montana is erring in that he chose the culture of shame (and sending a message) rather than encountering the teacher as a person (the question of whether the violation of social norms is sinful is for another day and depends on whether the she and the father live as husband and wife before each other and therefore before God). One wonders if he would fire someone who got pregnant in a civil marriage (civil marriages also being condemned by the Church) or whether the person pregnant was a student.
Does this moron even begin to get the fact that the demonization of sexuality when practiced by unmarrieds and especially by teens is an incentive to use abortion services (and contraception)? If we welcome life we must welcome sex. The appropriate action in this case is to have a baby shower and arrange for maternal leave (paid maternal leave). Christ himself was conceived outside a marriage. Would he expel a 12 year old pregnant Mary?
Likewise, on the gay marriage question - if the Church accepts the civil marriages of its staff members who are heterosexual - though such marriages are not accepted by the Church, then any rejection of civil homosexual marriages is based on HOMOPHOBIA - not adherance to teaching on sex.
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