Teacher Fired For Being Pregnant

A volleyball coach and science teacher, was fired from Heritage Christian Academy for getting pregnant and not being married, that’s according to WAFF in Texas.

For almost three years, Cathy Samford coached volleyball at the private Baptist school.

Samford was named “Coach of the Year” and recently began teaching science.

But when she got pregnant last fall, the school fired her because she was not married.

The school’s headmaster acknowledged that Samford could not get fired for an out-of-wedlock pregnancy in a public school. But HCA is a private, religious campus, and the school considers teachers to be ministers, since they’re allowed to share their beliefs in the classroom.

The Supreme Court ruled 9-to-0 last month that a Christian school does have that right, because it is a ministry.

School officlas said Samford violated the morals clause in her contract and was not a “Christian role model” to her students.

Samford said she is now considering legal action. The fired teacher and expectant mother said she did nothing wrong, and faces financial problems now, including giving birth without insurance.