Teacher Fired for Premarital Sex

     The article, "Teri James, Pregnant Woman Allegedly Fired for Premarital Sex, Sues Christian School" was written in The Huffington Post on March 1, 2013 by Katherine Bindley. Recently, a controversy involving religious schools and the strict contracts they impose on the administration has been the cause of many court cases. Teri James, 29, a teacher at San Diego Christian College, was fired for engaging in premarital sex and has now hired a high-profile attorney to sue the college. James was asked to sign a two-page contract that included a clause that did not allow her to engage in "sexually immoral behavior including premarital sex." Last fall, she was humiliated when she was called into the supervisor's office and asked if she was pregnant, then let go. After she was let go, the school offered her fiance (now her husband) a position in the school, even though they knew he had had sex before being married too. Cases similar to this have happened all over the nation, including the Southern Baptist-based Shorter University. A third of the faculty decided to quit rather than sign a "lifestyle" statement, which did not allow the faculty to drink in public, have sex before marriage, or allow homosexuality. Discriminatory cases such as these cause individual's to lose their jobs in an economy like this, which can cause great difficulties emotionally as well.