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A litany of 'thou shalt nots': Catholic teachers challenge morality clause
CNN ^ | May 31, 2014 | Susan Candiotti and Chris Welch

Posted on 05/31/2014 1:59:14 PM PDT by yongin

If you want to teach at a Catholic school in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, regardless of your religion, you must be willing to sign a detailed morality clause that critics say focuses on "pelvic issues."

The revised contracts forbid teachers from -- among other things -- living together or having sex outside of marriage, using in-vitro fertilization, a gay "lifestyle," or publicly supporting any of those things.

The system's 2,200 current teachers must sign the agreement to stay on the job.

"It is an embarrassment and a scandal, and will drive even more Catholics away from an institution so out of touch with its times," said Robert Hague, a high school English teacher for 50 years.

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Teacher to boss: 'Have you no shame?'

He's leaving his job rather than sign because he's opposed to "the language, the intent, and the tone of this contract," he says.

The revised morality clause goes beyond more general standard language requiring teachers -- Catholic or not -- to adhere to Catholic doctrine.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Ohio
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1 posted on 05/31/2014 1:59:14 PM PDT by yongin
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To: yongin

They don’t sound very Catholic to me, these headline writers can’t get anything right


2 posted on 05/31/2014 2:00:17 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: yongin

I find it odd that so many Catholic high schools have it right when it comes to these types of moral issues.

But the Catholic colleges and universities? They can be as sick and pervserse as any state or public school.


3 posted on 05/31/2014 2:03:21 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

The saga over the Cincy Catholic teacher contracts is making national news now.


4 posted on 05/31/2014 2:06:48 PM PDT by yongin
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To: yongin
an institution so out of touch with its times,"

Yeah, c'mon, sexual morality is so old-fashioned.

5 posted on 05/31/2014 2:06:52 PM PDT by ConservingFreedom (A goverrnment strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
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To: yongin
said Robert Hague, a high school English teacher for 50 years.

He's leaving his job rather than sign because he's opposed to "the language,
the intent, and the tone of this contract," 

Actually, he's leaving his job because he has to pee every 20 minutes.

6 posted on 05/31/2014 2:08:28 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Conservatism is the political disposition of grown-ups.)
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To: yongin; Morgana

“It is an embarrassment and a scandal”

Phony scandals PING!


7 posted on 05/31/2014 2:09:12 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (The new witchhunt: "Do you NOW, . . . or have you EVER , . . supported traditional marriage?")
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To: yongin; dcwusmc; Jed Eckert; Recovering Ex-hippie; KingOfVagabonds; Berlin_Freeper; UnRuley1; ...
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8 posted on 05/31/2014 2:09:47 PM PDT by narses (Matthew 7:6. He appears to have made up his mind let him live with the consequences.)
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To: ConservingFreedom
From Rudyard Kipling, nearly a century ago:

On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life
(Which started by loving our neighbour and ended by loving his wife)
Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "The Wages of Sin is Death."

9 posted on 05/31/2014 2:21:43 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: yongin

You’re Fired!


10 posted on 05/31/2014 2:29:54 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: ConservingFreedom

So lose touch with your paycheck. Problem solved.


11 posted on 05/31/2014 3:01:06 PM PDT by lastchance ("Nisi credideritis, non intelligetis" St. Augustine)
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To: yongin
"will drive even more Catholics away from an institution so out of touch with its times"

Translation: it will drive phony Catholics out of the Church.
12 posted on 05/31/2014 3:13:40 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Jeff Chandler

Good riddance, Robert Hague. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.


13 posted on 05/31/2014 3:15:06 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: a fool in paradise; Chode

See this is what happens when you don’t have nuns, and just any old yahoo teaching in Catholic schools.


14 posted on 05/31/2014 3:15:47 PM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Morgana
Oh, there are plenty of old yahoos among the nuns as well.

:o(

15 posted on 05/31/2014 3:28:29 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
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To: yongin

“”It is an embarrassment and a scandal, and will drive even more Catholics away from an institution so out of touch with its times,” said Robert Hague, a high school English teacher for 50 years.”

Why does this idiot English teacher think Catholic parents send their kids to Catholic School in the first place? To learn about how to sin against their religion?

If they closed all the Catholic schools, his school tax would skyrocket. And he would find some way to blame the Catholic schools. Idiot!


16 posted on 05/31/2014 3:34:42 PM PDT by kitkat (STORM HEAVEN WITH PRAYERS FOR OUR COUNTRY)
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To: lastchance

I guess compromising your principles does have a price.


17 posted on 05/31/2014 3:48:32 PM PDT by Autonomous User
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To: yongin

What part of “Catholic school” didn’t you understand?


18 posted on 05/31/2014 3:51:07 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: yongin

As the alum of a Protestant junior-senior high, I’d reply, no, you want the archdiocese to pay you to be a public-school teacher. And the archdiocese should have the right, as should my alma mater and its affiliated grade school, to tell you that if you want to be held to public-school morals clauses, go look for work in public schools.


19 posted on 05/31/2014 4:06:48 PM PDT by RichInOC (...your newest purveyor of wit, laughter and the Popish creed.)
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To: yongin
I checked it out: 1770 words, and they couldn't find one parent or teacher that supported the policy? They couldn't wedge in one direct quote from a diocesan or parochial-school official? They couldn't even bring themselves to mention, by name, the man who is pastorally responsible for this policy, Archbishop Dennis M. Schnurr?

This is reporting?

I hope for two things right off the bat: I hope Archbishop Schnurr will stick to his guns, put up his dukes, and in mixed-martial-metaphorical style batten dow the hatches and stick with his policy.

I also hope he will find many "teachable moments" in which he can direct, guide, and catechize his flock and the community at large.

Another obvious proof tht we are decades behind on that.

20 posted on 05/31/2014 4:20:02 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.” - Flannery O'Connor)
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