Posted on 02/06/2015 6:36:34 AM PST by marshmallow
The Roman Catholic archbishop of San Francisco is getting pushback from some parents, students and teachers at parochial schools after unveiling faculty handbook language calling on teachers to lead their public and professional lives consistently with church teachings on homosexuality, same-sex marriage, abortion, birth control and other behaviors he describes as evil.
Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone plans to include the language in next year's faculty handbooks for four high schools owned and operated by the archdiocese. The document states all administrators, faculty and staff, including non-Catholics, will be required to refrain from saying or doing anything publicly that contradicts church doctrine.
That has prompted criticism from within the school community and among gay rights activists.
"The new 'moral clauses' proposed ... by Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone stands in stark relief to the message of inclusion being promoted by Pope Francis," Lisbeth Melendez Rivera, a director of in the Human Rights Campaign Foundation's Religion and Faith Program.
Cordileone stressed that the handbook additions are meant to provide clarity for teachers and not to target any for dismissal.
"The intention is certainly not to pry into the private lives of the teachers. We certainly aren't going to do that. People are entitled to their private lives, but teachers also have to respect the mission of the school in the way they live their public lives," he said in a YouTube video posted as school principals presented the changes to teachers Tuesday.
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Frances ain’t gonna like this.
Good for him.
Nonsense.
To get a job at The Guitar Center, it is reasonable to expect that they will expect you to be a musician, or at least know something about guitars.
To get a job as a truck driver, it will be reasonable to expect that they will want you to have a CDL.
To obtain employment as a Real estate Broker, it is reasonable to expect that you will have to take the course, be tested and licensed, and follow the rules.
Why should it be any different to teach at a Christian School, of any denomination?
Who is he to judge?
“The new ‘moral clauses’ proposed ... by Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone stands in stark relief to the message of inclusion being promoted by Pope Francis,” Lisbeth Melendez Rivera, a director of in the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Religion and Faith Program.................
What an idiot. This is exactly what I feared would happen because of Pope Francis’s poorly worded statements. The liberals grabbed on to them and are now inferring he would approve of teachers in Catholic schools to be living ‘un-Christ like’ lifestyles.
Liberalism is really a disease as it is defies logic.
I’m going to assume you’re being disingenuous, because that’s the easiest thing for me. If you truly don’t understand, and are convincing about it, I can explain.
Like I said.
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