A high school volleyball coach in Dallas was fired from the
Christian school she worked at after getting pregnant out of wedlock. The
school fired her based on the grounds that she had violated the morals clause
in her contract and that she was not a positive Christian role model for the
players she coached because of it. While I believe the school had this right
because they are private and because they have a morals clause, I cannot help
but think this would not have happened had the coach been a man who had gotten
a woman pregnant out of wedlock. So often today people, not just Christians,
but all people, let things slide as long as others will not find out about it.
Had the school been able to hide something like this, would they have held on
to such a strong coach? Was this woman discriminated against based on her sex?
Obviously, it’s tough to hide the fact that a woman is pregnant further and
further into her pregnancy, but a man can impregnate multiple women without
anyone ever having to know, unless he chooses to reveal that information. I
feel this is another situation where there is a double standard between men and
women, with women getting the raw end of the deal. While I do not know if the
school would have kept a man on its’ staff dealing with a similar situation, I
can say with confidence that for women, there usually is no room for
negotiation in these situations. Men have options and, unfortunately, women
do not always have those same options.
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