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In reply to the discussion: Christian school fires pregnant teacher for premarital sex. Then hires father. [View all]IrishAyes
(6,151 posts)55. The Puritans
... who I believe eventually morphed into Congregationalists, sometimes stripped non-compliant or dissident women to the waist; they tied them to a wagon and made them follow behind while being lashed. They really hated Shakers. Think the Republicans would behave any better if they ever got the upper hand? I don't.
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Christian school fires pregnant teacher for premarital sex. Then hires father. [View all]
Canuckistanian
Mar 2013
OP
If you read the article, the "father" is her husband, at the time, her fiance
duffyduff
Mar 2013
#36
By offering the father a job, knowing that he is the father (and has married the pregnant
1monster
Mar 2013
#40
Sounds like the fifties all over again. Girl gets called a slut and the guy gets a pat on the back.
appleannie1
Mar 2013
#9
The great irony of this is that the mother, who almost certainly is a regular church goer is going
grantcart
Mar 2013
#19
The whole point of this is that the school's saying "this is bad only if you're a woman." (nt)
Posteritatis
Mar 2013
#37
They can stop calling it a "Christian" school for starters. They are far from Christian.
judesedit
Mar 2013
#32