health educator fired for refusing to teach birth control

[Robert]

A former Texas health-center worker said she was fired and discriminated against after refusing to teach patients about contraceptive practices that, she says, violate her religious beliefs.

Karen Alexia Palma, a devout Catholic, filed a discrimination charge with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Wednesday, nearly six months after she was fired by Legacy Community Health in Houston.

As part of her job as a health educator, Palma taught a family planning class three times a month. For a year and a half, she said, Legacy Community Health had been willing to accommodate her religious beliefs by allowing her to play a 20-minute video about birth control instead of personally talking about it with patients. A registered nurse also was on-site to answer questions patients might have about contraceptives, she said.

“The religious accommodation was very small and it did not increase the work of other employees at Legacy, nor did it cause hardship upon my employer,” Palma said in documents. “Moreover, it did not affect the vast majority of what I did as health educator.”

But in June, after a change in management, she said she was told she had to begin teaching patients about contraceptives and was also ordered to attend mandatory training at a Planned Parenthood location.

“My Catholic faith teaches me that contraception is wrong,” Palma told The Washington Post. “I cannot teach a class that violates my religious beliefs. I will always put my faith first.”

Family planning teacher doesn't believe in family planning.
Should never have been doing that job in the first place.

 

[redrumloa]

Family planning teacher doesn't believe in family planning.
Should never have been doing that job in the first place.

Meh, I've got nothing.

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

Family planning teacher doesn't believe in family planning.
Should never have been doing that job in the first place.

You have a right to your own religious beliefs but you don't have the right to push them on others. Or....

how about atheist paramedics refuse to treat injured people until they renounce their faith as they believe it's an affront to reason to believe in an all loving all powerful god and still rely on paramedics to save you. Wonder how that would fly.

 

[redrumloa]

You have a right to your own religious beliefs but you don't have the right to push them on others. Or....

how about atheist paramedics refuse to treat injured people until they renounce their faith as they believe it's an affront to reason to believe in an all loving all powerful god and still rely on paramedics to save you. Wonder how that would fly.

Or a muslin who refuses to expose face from a full burka for their driver's license picture. Oh wait, that's allowed. Klan members can't wear a hood anymore, but Muslims can because, because you know, Klan members are white, and Muslims would NEVER be violent.