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A New Jersey teacher who was fired from a Catholic school in 2014 after getting pregnant outside of marriage lost her legal battle against her former employer on Monday.
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The former teacher then filed a complaint, accusing the school of violating New Jersey’sLaw Against Discrimination, which bans unfair employment practices based on factors such as familial status, sex (including pregnancy), domestic partnership status, and marital/civil union status.
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“We are disappointed with today’s decision, but we are grateful that its narrow scope will not impact the important protections the Law Against Discrimination provides for the overwhelming majority of New Jerseyans,” a spokesperson for the Office of the Attorney General said, per the outlet.
Alexander Shalom, the American Civil Liberties Union’s New Jersey Director of Supreme Court Advocacy, told CNN in a statement that “While we recognize that the United States Supreme Court’s prior decisions provide broad latitude to religious employers regarding hiring and firing, we believe the NJ Supreme Court could have, and should have, held that a second grade art teacher was entitled to the protections of the Law Against Discrimination.”
St. Theresa School did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
source: people.com
