The case, viewed as a barometer on the degree to which religious organizations can regulate employees' lives, is the second lawsuit filed in the last two years against the archdiocese over the firing of an unmarried pregnant teacher.

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Ms Tenenbaum said this was unAmerican, but two days later he added that pregnant, unmarried women should not be allowed to teach either.

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Dias' attorney, Robert Klingler, had argued she was fired simply because she was pregnant and unmarried, a dismissal he said violated federal and state law.

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Anonymous blog postings about her months-old baby forced her to acknowledge that her unmarried teenage daughter is pregnant under circumstances that no parent and no child could want.

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"An unmarried 17-year-old pregnant daughter is not consistent with conservative principles, " she wrote on iReport.com.

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Her unmarried, 17-year-old daughter, Bristol, was pregnant, she revealed.

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