How do you think the Religious Right would react to a scenario in which several Christian teachers and employees were fired from a school for not holding the proper views? Most likely, they’d scream “discrimination.”

Now how do you think the Religious Right would react to a scenario in which several teachers were fired from a Christian school for not holding the proper views? Most likely, they’d say the school has the right to set its own religious requirements and to determine who it hires and fires accordingly.

So I am genuinely curious about how they will respond to this story in about a Christian school firing a bunch of Catholic employees for not being “born again”:

Four teachers and seven other workers at a Southern California religious school have been fired because of differences in biblical interpretation and incompatible beliefs. Most of the dismissed workers were Roman Catholics whose beliefs conflicted with those of Corona’s conservative evangelical Crossroads Christian Schools, which last year lost its autonomy and came under the umbrella of the 8,000-member Crossroads Christian Church next door. “To me, it feels like religious cleansing,” said the Rev. John Saville of St. John’s Episcopal Church, where fired elementary teacher Marylou Goodman is a parishioner. The fired employees had been told a year ago of the school’s closer relationship with the church and a requirement that they attend a “Bible-believing church,” meaning born-again.

The employees had reportedly signed a “statement of faith” which summarized Crossroads’ beliefs and saw nothing with which they disagreed, but authorities at the school believed that these employees “weren’t living out” the statement, in part because they have not received the proper baptism: