CALIFORNIA
San Francisco Appeal
Amid continuing controversy over proposed additions to the faculty handbook for Bay Area-based Catholic schools, a group of prominent Bay Area Catholics has called on Pope Francis to remove San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone.
In a letter to the pope, the letter’s signatories, which includes prominent San Francisco business leaders, teachers and attorneys, wrote, “Upon threat of losing their jobs, he coerces educators and staff in our Catholic high schools to accept a morality code which violates individual consciences as well as California labor laws.”
At issue is proposed language for the faculty handbook warning that homosexual relations and other sexual activities outside of marriage are “gravely evil.”
If adopted for the 2015-16 school year, the handbook would specify, “all extra-marital sexual relationships are gravely evil and that these include adultery, masturbation, fornication, the viewing of pornography and homosexual relations.”
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