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Catholic Teachers Challenge Morality Clause

posted on June 3, 2014

Susan Candiotti and Chris Welch of CNN report on the contract by the Archdiocese of Cincinnati forbidding Catholic school teachers from “living together or having sex outside of marriage, using in-vitro fertilization, a gay ‘lifestyle,’ or publicly supporting any of those things.” The contract has created a split in schools as some teachers have quit in protest and many have written disappointed letters to the superintendent and to the Pope. Roger Rosen, a teacher, signed the contract to keep his job. “Jesus always acted out of love,” he says. “Never out of fear, and we’re all being asked to act out of fear because the lawyers have taken over.”

Read at CNN