Dear Cincinnati Archdiocese: Listen to your pope and get your minds onto the betterment of the children your schools serve, instead of the private lives of your employees. Until you remove the shameful, intrusive, and unnecessary stipulations out of the new contract, we will not be supporting your parishes in any way - be it collection offerings, tuition, concessions at sporting events, or any other financial means. We will actively inform and educate potential parishoners and student families (voucher or full tuition based) to seek alternative educational opportunities.

The best teachers are those that advocate, support, nuture and love their students into their best selves. The only purpose this contract serves is to protect against future lawsuits. The harmful effects it has in the meantime are endless. It leaves too many teachers questioning their personal life decisions, rather than focusing on their students, for fear of reprimand or termination.

Some of those questions:

Is supporting a politician who supports "forbidden" issues, like Sherrod Brown or other progressives, "public support"?

What if you "like" his/her page on Facebook?

If you are a registered Democrat, which is of public record, is that support?

What about support of family members?

If you are an Archdiocesan teacher, you have sign that you agree to not support a homosexual lifestyle. What if you have a gay child?

If you attend a family member's gay wedding, is that public support?

You have to agree to not have in-vitro fertilization or support it. What if you've already conceived a child by in-vitro, surrogacy, or other method of artificial reproductive technology?

What if a student confides that he/she is LGBTQ?

Where is the line drawn?

Personal lives are just that, personal. They have no effect on the ability to teach and impart a lifelong love of learning - which should be every teacher's goal.

Let our community's teachers get back to their life's mission, and quit dictating their every move, both inside and outside of the classroom.

Read the full contract here: http://www.wcpo.com/lifestyle/religion/archdiocese-of-cincinnati-explicitly-prohibits-certain-moral-behaviors-in-new-teacher-contracts