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Educators at East Bay Catholic schools must sign a new contract Friday with the Diocese of Oakland pledging to conform to church teachings outside the workplace - leaving some, particularly non-Catholics, wrestling with a professional and moral dilemma.
In contention is an updated clause specifically outlining what teachers of the diocese's 54 schools do in their personal lives.
"In both the employee's personal and professional life, the employee is expected to model and promote behavior in conformity with the teaching of the Roman Catholic faith in matters of faith and morals, and to do nothing that tends to bring discredit to the school or to the Diocese of Oakland," the new contract says.
The previous contract did not delineate between a teacher's personal and professional life.
The clause is creating anxiety in a diocese where 18 percent of the 1,217 teachers are not Catholic, according to church statistics.
The new contracts were due May 1, but some sympathetic school administrators gave teachers until Friday to sign.
State and federal employment law offers little protection from being fired for violating church teaching - sparking fear that teachers could lose their jobs for using contraception, having premarital sex, trying to conceive a child by artificial insemination or marrying someone of the same sex.
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more at:
http://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/joegarofoli/article/Oakland-Diocese-requiring-educators-to-conform-to-5464492.php
Educators at East Bay Catholic schools must sign a new contract Friday with the Diocese of Oakland pledging to conform to church teachings outside the workplace - leaving some, particularly non-Catholics, wrestling with a professional and moral dilemma.
In contention is an updated clause specifically outlining what teachers of the diocese's 54 schools do in their personal lives.
"In both the employee's personal and professional life, the employee is expected to model and promote behavior in conformity with the teaching of the Roman Catholic faith in matters of faith and morals, and to do nothing that tends to bring discredit to the school or to the Diocese of Oakland," the new contract says.
The previous contract did not delineate between a teacher's personal and professional life.
The clause is creating anxiety in a diocese where 18 percent of the 1,217 teachers are not Catholic, according to church statistics.
The new contracts were due May 1, but some sympathetic school administrators gave teachers until Friday to sign.
State and federal employment law offers little protection from being fired for violating church teaching - sparking fear that teachers could lose their jobs for using contraception, having premarital sex, trying to conceive a child by artificial insemination or marrying someone of the same sex.
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more at:
http://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/joegarofoli/article/Oakland-Diocese-requiring-educators-to-conform-to-5464492.php