Meir Solivetchik fired a pregnant woman for having premarital sex, a new lawsuit alleges.
Read about it here: http://m.nydailynews.com/new-york/jewish-congregation-nyc-fired-woman-pregnancy-suit-article-1.2370219
Many people are asking the predictable double standard question, ie would a man have been fired for knocking up his girl friend ahead of the wedding, but by my lights that's the wrong double standard question to ask.
The real double standard question is this one: would she have been fired for wearing shatnez or withholding someone's pay or charging interest? Thw answer is "Of course not" despite the fact that as per Jewish law those are all more serious crimes.
Thanks to the negative influence of the evangelicals we are too hung up on sex and this case proves it.
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