Look! The virgin will conceive a child! She will give birth to a son and will call him ... uh, probably Aiden or Mason or something.
ABC News brings us a report of Texas teacher Cathy Samford, who has been fired from Heritage Christian Academy for getting pregnant out of wedlock and purportedly violating the moral conduct clause of her employment contract. Then, instead of just shutting her mouth and filing a lawsuit, she hit the airwaves to claim that she had planned to be married, she's not a whore, etc. etc. Setting aside the question of whether the clause trumps the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, if she had just kept quiet I daresay she would have been fine. To wit:
1) It's 2012 and you can get pregnant without having sex, and thus presumably with no moral taint. While the Catholics object to in-vitro fertilization, I don't believe Protestants have an official policy. The Bible, as it frequently does for everything we actually care about, remains silent on the issue. So have you necessarily sinned by having a bun in your oven? Ostensibly not.
2) Their entire fucking religion revolves around a woman who got pregnant out of wedlock! If anything, you're MORE of a Christian role model by being unmarried and pregnant. Provided, of course, that you keep your damn mouth shut and subtly suggest that it was the Holy Spirit's doing, possibly giving new meaning to "the coming of the Lord."
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