Catholic Teacher Fired After Facebook Survey

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By Becky Ogann

Story Created: May 28, 2010 at 11:29 AM CDT

Story Updated: May 28, 2010 at 5:33 PM CDT

FORT DODGE (AP) - A teacher at a Catholic school in Fort Dodge has been fired after saying in a Facebook survey she did not believe in God.

Administrators of St. Edmond Catholic School fired Abby Nurre, 27, late last year, just months after she was hired as an eighth-grade math teacher.

The Des Moines Register reports that in August, she responded "No" to a Facebook members' poll in which she was asked whether she believed in God, miracles or heaven. In November, Nurre posted a comment to the online discussion forum Atheist Nexus.

Nurre was fired in December. In her defense in January, she told the school board teachers are taxpayers who are entitled to think. She later said she is not an atheist, and that opinions on such things constantly change.

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