The Church is not a social club. People who don't believe in Church doctrine don't belong in the Church.
“who am i to judge” - the gift that keeps on giving.
Why not write him a letter and ask? Maybe he'll give you a phone call.
Many, many people manage to check the boxes of that entire list and not even be Catholic. Too bad for the writer to be so upset at the ultimate meaning of the religion she thinks she professes. The church doesn’t give you “rights”: the church leads you to grace.
The Diocese of Cleveland doesn't say that. It says:
"...publicly supporting...so-called homosexual or same-sex marriage or unions."
There's a big difference.
Matthew 5:33”Again, you have heard that the ancients were told, ‘YOU SHALL NOT MAKE FALSE VOWS, BUT SHALL FULFILL YOUR VOWS TO THE LORD.’ 34”But I say to you, make no oath at all, either by heaven, for it is the throne of God, 35 or by the earth, for it is the footstool of His feet, or by Jerusalem, for it is THE CITY OF THE GREAT KING.…36And do not swear by your head, for you cannot make even one hair white or black. 37All you need to say is simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything beyond this comes from the evil one.
Does signing this morality contract equate up to a vow/oath?
The Church (the only one that doesn’t need an adjective) doesn’t drive people away...people drive themselves away.
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Yeah...no, it doesn’t. I’m a new Catholic, but I’m also the product of an evangelical Protestant junior-high and high school, which (along with its sister primary school) expects administrators, faculty and staff to accept and live by standards which would be at least equally problematic for these folks, if not more so. Sure, you have the right to say, “No, I won’t submit myself to those standards.” In which case the school would say, “Then maybe your call to teaching doesn’t include teaching at schools like ours.” I’d back my alma mater on that, and I’ll happily back the dioceses enacting these clauses as well.
I see absolutely nothing in the contract that should offend any real Catholic at all. If you cannot at least try to live up to what are moral Catholic teachings, then don’t attempt to teach our grade schoolers. While no one expects perfection, every Catholic parent should expect that the people hired to teach and guide their children for an entire school year should be of the highest moral character possible......that’s why it is a Catholic school!!!