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I love living in enlightened America.

When can we start seeing if the witches will float

Yeah...this is post number two....both of these stories resonated with me for whatever reason.

Based on my op here how do you know I'm against it?...maybe I'm hugely in favor of eliminating a woman's economic livelihood for playing God with their eggs? (I'm kidding, obviously I think it's silly and unfair....the gal didn't even do the thing they're worried about, namely destroying unused embryos)

Thinking about your challenge regarding Mrs Halas I'd ask myself two questions:
- does the fact that this woman "acted" in the porn industry so offend my moral sensibilities that I wouldn't want her teaching my 8th grade son? I only have boys so that's what I can speak to. Presuming what she did was in no way illegal it wouldn't bother me at all.
- can the woman still be an effective teacher of young teenage boys? Different question, if the videos are available on line, I kind of doubt she could effectively control a class, and I'd imagine that a fair amount of these guys would find a way to watch the videos, and after that might be somewhat distracted in class.
In the end no, I don't think I'd want my boys in that class because I don't think she would be an effective teacher.

Of course the second bullet in no way applies to Emily Herx as what she did would not compromise her ability to teach kids.

What century do we live in again?

Business is gonna business. This is America, after all.

These days... yes. I'm being completely serious.

I empathize with the woman, but the fact of the matter is those who control the resources (money) make the rules.

I wish things in this world were different, but unfortunately there's nothing we can do about it. Unless you've been able to amass an amount of resources that allows you to be in control, you're just a pawn in their game. Since it's their game, it's their rules.

I don't know anyone in politics at that level. They're playing a game on a different field and my concerns probably don't concern them. I think you're over-estimating how much they actually care. It's a job, and a lucrative one... they're not going to bite the hand that feeds them.

Should your employer get to decide which food you eat, which car you drive, what type of house you get to live in, which neighborhood you have to live in, how many kids you must have, which schools the kids must attend, what type of clothes you must wear? That is where your and and xsanguine type thinking is leading. You seem to think that the government has no business dictating your life, but seem very content to selling yourself to a company. That's just sad.

In the article it says the Catholic Church is against destroying unused embryo's not IVF. They are assuming that IVF automatically means destroying the unused embryo's which is not the case with this woman.

This how the blatant hypocrisy of the Catholic Church or at least this monsignor. The Church encourages a husband and wife to procreate yet when they try to use the only viable means available she gets fired.

The right of a private institution is to uphold what values it see's as important. If I worked for a company that tried to educate people against the killing and eating of animals, then went on a hunting trip and posted pictures of us hunting and eating our kill, that company would have the right to fire me because they deem me not to have the same values as them.

Most companies are not this strict in thinking because stricter rules you would lose a lot of talent. That is up for the company to judge though. In this instance the Catholic Church thinks having a woman doing something that is strictly against Chuch law is not the best example to have in their school, that is their right.

If people are unhappy at their company because of certain rules, they are free to leave. Does the company you work for require you to be at work at a certain time and leave at a certain time, isn't that dictating your life? (when you wake up, when you get to do errands) Companies dictate your life all the time.

If the school is owned by the government, then yes.

If you don't like it, don't be a member of the Catholic (not christian church as you said) Chuch and don't get a job working for them.

Please name a company that requires it's employees to wear uniforms when not at work. TIA.