Catholic school teachers in Ohio leaving their jobs rather than sign anti-LGBT ‘morality clause’

Catholic school teachers in Ohio leaving their jobs rather than sign anti-LGBT ‘morality clause’
By Travis Gettys
Monday, June 2, 2014 7:44 EDT



Veteran teachers are leaving their jobs over the highly specific morality clause in their new contracts with the Archdiocese of Cincinnati.

The revised contracts bars teachers – whether they’re Catholic or not – from living with a partner or having sex outside of marriage, using in-vitro fertilization, living a gay “lifestyle,” or publicly supporting any of those things.

First-grade teacher Molly Shumate, a lifelong Catholic, ended her 14-year career at the elementary school she attended rather than risk disciplinary action for supporting her 22-year-old son, who is gay.

“If my son were to say to me, ‘Will you go somewhere with me that is supported or run by gays and lesbians,’ I would have to tell him no, according to that contract,” Shumate said. “And if my picture was taken, what would happen?”

If her son were to marry a same-sex partner, Shumate said she’s been told she would have faced reprimand, but not fired, if she went.

“For me to sign this (contract), I feel like I would be telling my son I’ve changed my mind, that I don’t support him as I did. And I won’t do that,” she said.

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