CALIFORNIA
SFGate
By Nanette Asimov
Published 9:55 pm, Thursday, February 19, 2015
San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone fired back Thursday at state lawmakers who characterized as intolerant and possibly illegal his effort to have teachers at four Catholic high schools sign a labor contract declaring their opposition to same-sex unions, abortion and contraception.
“Would you hire a campaign manager who advocates policies contrary to those that you stand for, and who shows disrespect toward you and the Democratic Party in general?” Cordileone wrote the eight Democratic lawmakers from San Francisco, Marin, Sonoma and San Mateo counties.
“My point,” Cordileone said, is that “I respect your right to employ or not employ whomever you wish to advance your mission. I simply ask the same respect from you.”
In their letter, the lawmakers said the archbishop’s plan to include the morality clauses in the 2015-2016 faculty handbook and recast the collective bargaining agreement “sends an alarming message of intolerance to youth” who attend Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory and Archbishop Riordan in San Francisco, Junipero Serra in San Mateo and Marin Catholic in Kentfield.
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