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Teacher: I Was Fired for 'Fornication'

Kevin Spak — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 11:49:44 CDT

A Florida teacher is suing the Christian school where she worked until recently, saying they fired her because she got pregnant just before her wedding. Fourth-grade teacher Jarrestta Hamilton says that when she asked her school for maternity leave last April, she admitted that she’d conceived the baby three weeks...

Sex-Abuse Report Shames Ireland, Church

Jason Farago — Thu, 21 May 2009 08:28:02 CDT

The massive report released yesterday documenting the systematic abuse of children in Irish Catholic schools and institutions is "a monument to the shameful nature of Irish society throughout most of the decades of the 20th century," writes Mary Raftery in the Irish Times . The painstaking disclosure of physical abuse and...

Pa. College Boots Student for Making Porn

Katherine Thompson — Fri, 08 May 2009 10:57:53 CDT

Instead of getting ready for graduation this week, 22-year-old John Gechter finds himself kicked out of western Pennsylvania’s Grove City College for work he did in Miami and Chicago. The school is one of the most conservative Christian colleges in the US, and Gechter’s job was acting in gay pornography,...