SAN FRANCISCO
National Catholic Reporter
Mandy Erickson | Apr. 28, 2015
SAN FRANCISCO Labor leaders and union members joined teachers, parents and students from archdiocesan high schools here Monday to rally against Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone’s proposal to change aspects of their employment.
Gathering in front of the archdiocesan offices at 1 Peter Yorke Way, a crowd of more than 200 protested the archbishop’s plan to reclassify the teachers as “ministers,” thereby providing them with fewer legal protections, and to insert a morality clause into their handbook.
The morality clause condemns same-sex marriage, contraception and use of reproductive technology, among other things, and expects employees to accept “these truths” outside the workplace.
“The church has told us that it honors all civil rights and labor rights,” said Art Pulaski, chief officer of the California Labor Federation, speaking before the crowd gathered in the blocked-off street. “You cannot profess social justice if within your own walls you refuse to practice it. We call on the archbishop to adhere to the principles of social justice.”
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