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 lifestyle that is incompatible with Catholic social teaching.”

 Devine said that it would also affect the career opportunities of current staff who were open about their sexuality: “Being openly gay could well affect promotions.”

He also said he could “well understand” the fears of parents who did not want their children taught by homosexuals, adding that the new rules would make up for the fact some gay teachers had slipped through the net.

The charter was launched in June

 

 

 last year by Devine and Michael McGrath, director of the Catholic Education Service, as a way of laying down the moral framework of denominational schools.

It also insisted that all staff appointed to the denominational sector would be “expected to support and promote the aims, missions, values and ethos of the schools,” which Devine says precludes the hiring of gay teachers.

   

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Scotland's Catholic Schools Take a Step Backward to Ban Gay Teachers

Senior Catholics have drawn up plans to ban gay teachers taking up jobs in faith schools and to refuse promotion to those already in post.

Bishop Joseph Devine, president of the Catholic Education Commission, told the Sunday Herald that the proposed new code would stop homosexual teachers from being hired by faith-based schools.

 “Being openly gay would not at all be compatible with the charter,” he said. “It would cut across the whole moral vision enshrined in the charter. It would be offering a

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