SF Archbishop Answers Disapproving Letter From Lawmakers

Crux ^ | 2/20/15 | AP

[marshmallow]

SAN FRANCISCO — The archbishop of San Francisco sent a letter to California lawmakers on Thursday asking them to respect his right to hire people who uphold Catholic teachings.

Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone wrote the message in response to a letter sent to him earlier this week by California lawmakers urging him to remove from a teachers’ handbook morality clauses they say are discriminatory and divisive.

“Would you hire a campaign manager who advocates policies contrary to those you stand for, and who shows disrespect for you and the Democratic Party in general?” Cordileone asked the lawmakers in the letter.

[Gay State Conservative]

Ten bucks says that no moslem “imam” received such a letter from the California legislature.But then that makes sense...they know that no Catholic would try to blow up the state capital building.

[jtal]

Bravo Archbishop “Lionheart”!

[Salvation]

 

[faithhopecharity]

you know

if I am a member of a church, especially one that has taught certain moral tenets for centuries and centuries,
I would feel pretty much bound by those teachings
(or else I am always free to find another church, or just leave entirely if I wish)

my continued membership in a church should be understood to include my agreeing to follow (or to try to follow as best I can) its core teachings.

simple straight-forward and honest.

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now then, i have worked in minor capacities for a church institution.... that was a church I was not a member of.
I was happy they offered to hire me and I did all i could to uphold their major teachings while i was there with them.
If I did not wish to obey their major moral teachings, I was always free to turn in my resignation

simple straight-forward and honest.

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and i have been denied the opportunity to work for a couple other church places....where i was not a member, either.
That felt just awful, since I was wililng to follow and uphold their major moral teachings. But, I just chocked down the losses and went on with life. I did, and do, wish they would have considered me...some of these places could really open up a little, really.

but all in all, the point here is the first one...
if I continue my membership in a church it means I agree to try to obey its major tenets
and
if I am not willing to do this, I really should not continue with that church. It would simply be dishonest if I did.

We read from time to time about people who are so fortunate as to have jobs with churches (or church schools) and who are running some sort of whorehouses or harems or sex orgies or robbery rings...on the side....or even on the job.

These folks are dishonest and I have no sympathy with them at all.

[GeronL]

he should just leave SF and not look back, lest he become a pillar of salt

[Arthur McGowan]

If any of these Democrats (i.e., baby-murderers) claim to be “Catholic” and are receiving Communion, and Cordileone does not instruct all his priests to deny them Communion, then Cordileone may be a “culture warrior,” but he’s not doing his job as a bishop.

[Salvation]

Geron, he is what San Francisco needs. Please pray for him.

[Ann Archy]

He is a great and holy man.....SF NEEDS him.

[yldstrk]

“Geron, he is what San Francisco needs. Please pray for him.”

Exactly