#teachacceptance and the Fight for the Soul of SF's Catholic Schools

[cbayer]

http://religiondispatches.org/teachacceptance-and-the-fight-for-the-soul-of-sfs-catholic-schools/

BY PATRICIA MILLER FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Despite media reports to the contrary, it doesn’t appear that San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone is backing down from his attempt to dictate the private morality of teachers in San Francisco Catholic schools or from his effort to exempt them from federal anti-discrimination protections.

The San Francisco Chronicle reported this week that Cordileone will abandon his proposal to declare all teachers at Catholic schools in the diocese “ministers,” which under the Hosanna-Tabor Supreme Court decision would apply the “ministerial exemption” from federal labor laws to all teachers, not just to those who teach religion.

Cordileone is also creating a committee of four theology teachers to review the proposed morality code, which created in uproar in the local community by declaring that teachers should “conform their hearts, minds and consciences, as well as their public and private behavior” to orthodox Catholic teaching.

Among the rules that teachers are to “affirm and believe” are the “sinfulness of contraception,” that “all extra-marital sexual relationships are gravely evil and that these include adultery, masturbation, fornication, the viewing of pornography and homosexual relations,” and that “the fundamental demands of justice require that the civil law preserve the definition of marriage as the union of one man and one woman.”

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[tazkcmo]

1. Hmm

How surprising the Catholic Church would want it's employees to follow the teachings of the church. Crazy.

[cbayer]

2. Cordileone takes this way too far, imo.

Morality codes?

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. They want their teachers to say masturbation is 'gravely evil'?

Wow. That's not just denying the basic urges of minorities like LGBT, it's denying the basic urges of the majority. I think they'll find that destroys any credibility with unmarried teenagers.

[cbayer]

4. This guy is such bad news.

That they assigned him anywhere is outrageous, but what a slap in the face to SF.