While many women who intend to start families may face hiring discrimination, many enjoy protection from being fired simply for giving birth and taking maternity leave. In the case of Teri James, simply becoming pregnant was considered just cause for her to lose her job. James’s supervisor at San Diego Christian College called her into his office and bluntly asked if she was pregnant. Having just learned the news with her fiancé, she responded honestly that she was. But because James had signed a contract pledging not to engage in “immoral” activity like premarital sex, she soon found herself fired from her job.
Astonishingly, San Diego Christian College promptly offered James’s fiancé the very same position that she had just been fired from—even though he had obviously engaged in the exact same indiscretion that got her fired. She has since enlisted the help of an attorney to sue her former employer.
The fact that San Diego Christian College was willing to hire James’s now-husband to replace her illustrates how her case is not an issue of morals, but of discrimination. The private Christian school may have been unwilling to host an unmarried pregnant woman on its campus, but it was perfectly content hiring an unmarried man who had also engaged in premarital sex. This case is just one of many that proves how the burden of Christian morality weighs more heavily on women than men.
San Diego Christian College should not have fired Teri James in her time of need, no matter the contract she signed at the start of her employment. Urge the school’s Dean of Administration to apologize and give James her job back.
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preschool worker from Cumberland County said she was fired from the New
Life Baptist Daycare and Preschool in Fayetteville because she’s single
and pregnant.
Venita Short said she was recently fired after she told the staff she was pregnant.
Short, who is not married, was shocked when a church administrator questioned her about her pregnancy.
“I told her the same thing. I plan to get married one day, but not because I’m pregnant,” said Short.
After telling the administrator that she wasn’t going to get married before she had the baby, Short said the administrator told her that the daycare committee would have to determine if she could work at the facility or not.
Short said she worked at the church for about a year-and-a-half with good reviews and at least three pay raises.
Short said the unwed pregnancy is her personal business and should have nothing to do with her job. Ironically, before she got fired, Short took care of several children of single parents at the church. That’s why she can’t understand the church’s reason for letting her go.
“They told me I was fired because I am pregnant and I am not married,” said Short.
Pastor Ed Wilson did not return calls made by ABC11. Short said she’s planning to get an attorney and take the issue to court.
- See more at: http://bossip.com/785383/really-black-woman-fired-from-christian-daycare-center-for-being-single-and-pregnant/#sthash.5SDqdDjF.dpuf
Venita Short said she was recently fired after she told the staff she was pregnant.
Short, who is not married, was shocked when a church administrator questioned her about her pregnancy.
“I told her the same thing. I plan to get married one day, but not because I’m pregnant,” said Short.
After telling the administrator that she wasn’t going to get married before she had the baby, Short said the administrator told her that the daycare committee would have to determine if she could work at the facility or not.
Short said she worked at the church for about a year-and-a-half with good reviews and at least three pay raises.
Short said the unwed pregnancy is her personal business and should have nothing to do with her job. Ironically, before she got fired, Short took care of several children of single parents at the church. That’s why she can’t understand the church’s reason for letting her go.
“They told me I was fired because I am pregnant and I am not married,” said Short.
Pastor Ed Wilson did not return calls made by ABC11. Short said she’s planning to get an attorney and take the issue to court.
- See more at: http://bossip.com/785383/really-black-woman-fired-from-christian-daycare-center-for-being-single-and-pregnant/#sthash.5SDqdDjF.dpuf
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preschool worker from Cumberland County said she was fired from the New
Life Baptist Daycare and Preschool in Fayetteville because she’s single
and pregnant.
Venita Short said she was recently fired after she told the staff she was pregnant.
Short, who is not married, was shocked when a church administrator questioned her about her pregnancy.
“I told her the same thing. I plan to get married one day, but not because I’m pregnant,” said Short.
After telling the administrator that she wasn’t going to get married before she had the baby, Short said the administrator told her that the daycare committee would have to determine if she could work at the facility or not.
Short said she worked at the church for about a year-and-a-half with good reviews and at least three pay raises.
Short said the unwed pregnancy is her personal business and should have nothing to do with her job. Ironically, before she got fired, Short took care of several children of single parents at the church. That’s why she can’t understand the church’s reason for letting her go.
“They told me I was fired because I am pregnant and I am not married,” said Short.
Pastor Ed Wilson did not return calls made by ABC11. Short said she’s planning to get an attorney and take the issue to court.
- See more at: http://bossip.com/785383/really-black-woman-fired-from-christian-daycare-center-for-being-single-and-pregnant/#sthash.5SDqdDjF.dpuf
Venita Short said she was recently fired after she told the staff she was pregnant.
Short, who is not married, was shocked when a church administrator questioned her about her pregnancy.
“I told her the same thing. I plan to get married one day, but not because I’m pregnant,” said Short.
After telling the administrator that she wasn’t going to get married before she had the baby, Short said the administrator told her that the daycare committee would have to determine if she could work at the facility or not.
Short said she worked at the church for about a year-and-a-half with good reviews and at least three pay raises.
Short said the unwed pregnancy is her personal business and should have nothing to do with her job. Ironically, before she got fired, Short took care of several children of single parents at the church. That’s why she can’t understand the church’s reason for letting her go.
“They told me I was fired because I am pregnant and I am not married,” said Short.
Pastor Ed Wilson did not return calls made by ABC11. Short said she’s planning to get an attorney and take the issue to court.
- See more at: http://bossip.com/785383/really-black-woman-fired-from-christian-daycare-center-for-being-single-and-pregnant/#sthash.5SDqdDjF.dpuf
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preschool worker from Cumberland County said she was fired from the New
Life Baptist Daycare and Preschool in Fayetteville because she’s single
and pregnant.
Venita Short said she was recently fired after she told the staff she was pregnant.
Short, who is not married, was shocked when a church administrator questioned her about her pregnancy.
“I told her the same thing. I plan to get married one day, but not because I’m pregnant,” said Short.
After telling the administrator that she wasn’t going to get married before she had the baby, Short said the administrator told her that the daycare committee would have to determine if she could work at the facility or not.
Short said she worked at the church for about a year-and-a-half with good reviews and at least three pay raises.
Short said the unwed pregnancy is her personal business and should have nothing to do with her job. Ironically, before she got fired, Short took care of several children of single parents at the church. That’s why she can’t understand the church’s reason for letting her go.
“They told me I was fired because I am pregnant and I am not married,” said Short.
Pastor Ed Wilson did not return calls made by ABC11. Short said she’s planning to get an attorney and take the issue to court.
- See more at: http://bossip.com/785383/really-black-woman-fired-from-christian-daycare-center-for-being-single-and-pregnant/#sthash.5SDqdDjF.dpuf
Venita Short said she was recently fired after she told the staff she was pregnant.
Short, who is not married, was shocked when a church administrator questioned her about her pregnancy.
“I told her the same thing. I plan to get married one day, but not because I’m pregnant,” said Short.
After telling the administrator that she wasn’t going to get married before she had the baby, Short said the administrator told her that the daycare committee would have to determine if she could work at the facility or not.
Short said she worked at the church for about a year-and-a-half with good reviews and at least three pay raises.
Short said the unwed pregnancy is her personal business and should have nothing to do with her job. Ironically, before she got fired, Short took care of several children of single parents at the church. That’s why she can’t understand the church’s reason for letting her go.
“They told me I was fired because I am pregnant and I am not married,” said Short.
Pastor Ed Wilson did not return calls made by ABC11. Short said she’s planning to get an attorney and take the issue to court.
- See more at: http://bossip.com/785383/really-black-woman-fired-from-christian-daycare-center-for-being-single-and-pregnant/#sthash.5SDqdDjF.dpuf
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