I leave it to the Catholics to

judge their own. At least they aren’t stoning her or beheading her. At the same time, it seems beyond irony to cast onto the streets

someone who is pregnant. Will this force her to an abortion? Will her child be poor and malnourished? Truth is, nobody really cares, not

even the sanctimonious. mjh

Fired pregnant teacher sues N.Y. diocese
Michelle McCusker,

26, said she was fired from her $30,000-a-year preschool job at St. Rose of Lima School two days after she told her principal she was

pregnant for “violating the tenets of Catholic morality.” …

“I don’t understand how a religion that prides itself on being

forgiving and on valuing life could terminate me because I’m pregnant and am choosing to have this baby,” a sobbing McCusker said.

A diocese spokesman said the school had to follow its policy handbook.