Well, here is a new one. A teacher took some time off because she was going for
in vitro fertilization treatment. However, she was teaching in a Catholic school, and the Catholic Church is against such treatment.
The teacher was fired.
And after church officials were alerted that Herx was undergoing IVF—making her, in the words of one monsignor, "a grave, immoral sinner"—it took them less than two weeks to fire her.
The teacher filed a discrimination lawsuit in 2012. The school said they were within their boundaries to fire her because of their ""religious freedom".
But now the church has gone one step further. They content that they do not have to court at all, because of "religious freedom"
"I've never seen this before, and I couldn't find any other cases like it," says Brian Hauss, a staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union Center for Liberty. The group is not directly involved in the lawsuit but has filed amicus briefs supporting Herx. "What the diocese is saying is, 'We can fire anybody, and we have absolute immunity from even going to trial, as long as we think they're violating our religion. And to have civil authorities even look into what we're doing is a violation…It's astonishing."
It appears that this is a dangerous precedent that the Church is trying to set,
claiming that "religious freedom" makes you immune from just about anything that they claim is part of their "religious freedom".
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