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In most states you can not be fires exclusively for your gender, race, religion, and in some states sexual orientation. I don't recall political activist group being a protected status.
Just to note......places like Curves, that provide a place for women to work out are allowed and do hire only women to provide instructions to the women who go there.
Hooters only hire female wait staff.
Curves is a private members only club. You have to buy a membership to go there.
Hooters has been to court on their hiring practice, they settled, but did not change hiring practices. They did create other serving positions for males.
There is legal history involving this. If the position in the religious school includes religious duties (priest, pastor, Sunday school instructor), it's exempt from the law. If the position in the religious school does not include religious duties (janitor, PE teacher), it is not.
It is not difficult for a Catholic Church to argue or institute the idea that a healthy body is more than just one that can run laps around the gym. That a PE teacher is there not only to teach them volleyball but also to minister to the students the other teachings of a healthy body.
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Do I think it's morally right? No. Would I do it? No. But she works for a religious school, which comes with certain expectations of acceptable behavior by employees from the employer. What she is doing is against their religion. Right or wrong, many of the parents send their kids to that particular school in order avoid people in situations like hers.
If the church itself had applied the same standards to its own predator priests the school's action might be acceptable, it didn't and it isn't.
Just stay away from the Catholic Church and we'll all be happy. Why would a gay person want to teach at a Catholic Church that directly conflicts morally with their lifestyle?
Personally, I think the Church should file a lawsuit for fraud.
You are aware that countless Catholics support gays and reject the Vatican's view right? There are pro-gay Catholic Churches in this country.
“But so, too, is the interest of religious groups in choosing who will preach their beliefs, teach their faith and carry out their mission.”
In addition to ministers, priests, rabbis and other religious leaders, the decision appears to encompass, for instance, at least those teachers in religious schools with formal religious training who are charged with instructing students about religious matters.
Asked about professors at Catholic universities like Notre Dame, Professor Laycock said: “If he teaches theology, he’s covered. If he teaches English or physics or some clearly secular subjects, he is clearly not covered.”
from your link.
How is a PE teacher preaching their beliefs, teaching their faith, or carrying out their mission?
I don't recall dodgeball or calisthenics mentioned in the bible.
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