New Jersey’s Supreme Court ruled this week that the Catholic school was justified in firing the teacher for “knowingly” violating “Catholic law”
— the same school she attended as a child. Three years later, the school’s principal approached Crisitello about a full-time job teaching art to elementary school students. If she were to take the job, Crisitello, who was unmarried, told the principal she would need a raise. She was pregnant and would have to arrange childcare for when she was at work. Crisitello was fired a few weeks later, after being informed that she had violated the school’s code of ethics by having premarital sex.
“The religious tenets exception [to the law] allowed St. Theresa’s to require its employees, as a condition of employment, to abide by Catholic law, including that they abstain from premarital sex,”. “In other words, St. Theresa’s required adherence to Catholic law, and Crisitello knowingly violated Catholic law.”
According to the New Jersey Catholic Conference, there are 7,455 teachers employed by Catholic schools in New Jersey. The court’s ruling would apply to all of them. But Crisitello’s lawyer, Thomas McKinney, of the employment law firm Castronovo & McKinney, worries the decision could have even broader implications.
“People are looking at this as very limited to a school teacher who’s unmarried and pregnant. I think the decision by the [New Jersey] Supreme Court goes beyond that,” McKinney tells. “Let’s say there’s a gay employee working at a religious hospital, and that person’s a nurse, for example. And under the state law, they’re allowed to marry.
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