Incompatible. So Bishop Joseph Devine, president of the Catholic Education Commission and Bishop of Motherwell, has declared. The Scotsman newspaper reported his belief that a new charter for schools drawn up by the Church would "prevent gay teachers from getting jobs in Catholic schools or gaining promotion if already employed".
The bishop is doing a fair bit of off-piste interpretation on this. The charter states that all staff would be "expected to support and promote the aims, missions, values and ethos of the schools".
Since the bishop thinks that homosexuality is "a lifestyle that is incompatible with Catholic social teaching", he thinks that means a ban on gay teachers.
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