A Catholic teacher from Fort Dodge has been fired because of a Facebook survey in which she said she did not believe in God.
Abby Nurre, 27, was hired last summer as an eighth- grade math teacher at St. Edmond Catholic School. In August, she responded to a Facebook members’ poll in which she was asked whether she believed in God, miracles or heaven.
In response, Nurre answered, “No.” Her answers then became part of her Facebook autobiography page, which was accessible only to her designated “friends.”
In November, Nurre posted a comment to an online discussion forum, Atheist Nexus. In her post, she provided a link to a New York Times article that, as she described it, indicated the government had spent $2.3 million on prayer research in the past 10 years.
Now you see, this is a Catholic – Anglican difference. I think it’s around 25 years ago my sister was godparent to a baby in England, being a friend of the family. The mother was a religion teacher in the British public school system. She was an *atheist* mind you, but of course getting the baby a proper baptism in the Church of England. I don’t think there is a way that an atheist religion teacher CAN be told that she hasn’t a right (The church is kind of a public utility) to have her child baptized in the C of E even though he will never be brought up a christian. How anachronistic for Romans to think that a Catholic school teacher should be a believer!
Good for them.
Too bad they will have to pay her unemployment. But worth the cost!
Susan Peterson
Catholic charity is alive and well I see.
It isn’t charity to expose Catholic young people to a role model who doesn’t believe in “God, miracles, or heaven.” They get plenty of those everywhere else. I don’t quite understand your point of view on this. Do you really think Catholic schools should include everyone and every point of view? Would you think an Anglican school should do so?
Susan Peterson