The Supreme Court of New Jersey ruled Monday that religious schools are allowed to screen their employees based on their adherence to the institution's faith.
The Garden State's high court ruled unanimously in favor of St. Theresa School, a Catholic elementary school in the Archdiocese of Newark, for its decision to terminate the contract of a teacher due to her becoming pregnant out of wedlock, in violation of church teaching.
"The religious tenets exception 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," Solomon, an appointee of former Gov. Chris Christie, wrote, adding that premarital abstinence was a"condition of her employment."
Further, the school cited First Amendment concerns that a ruling against them would allow the court to insert itself on decisions of faith, doctrine, and internal governance. Agudath Israel of America, a national Orthodox Jewish organization representing the interest of Jewish schools, filed a brief in support of St. Theresa's, citing a similar argument.
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