Legal Question in Legal Ethics in Texas

I was just dismissed from my school, Christ For the Nations Institute, last week. It's a Bible School in Dallas, Texas and is not accredited. While attending this school, I was employed at a church to lead worship for their youth services. My only source of income was at that church. I was dismissed from school for defrauding the attendance system and making it seem like I was in class when I really wasn't. The Dean at my school is threatening to tell my Pastor what I have done if I don't, but I know if I do, I might get fired, and that is my only source of income and I love every second of it. I really value this job and I don't want to give it up. Is it legal for my Dean to communicate with my Pastor about what I've done, or is there any legal action I can take?


Asked on 3/09/11, 1:39 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Mark Dunn Mark D. Dunn

Tell your Dean that as far as the east is from the west, that's how far your transgression has been removed (Ps. 103.12). Tell him that where sin increases, grace increases even more (Rom. 5:20).

If that doesn't work, and he reports you to your pastor, and you lose your job, you have a lawsuit for tortious interference with contract. The largest judgment in history (Texaco vs. Pennzoil) was for this cause of action.

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Answered on 3/10/11, 8:30 am


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