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Will, to teachers, even trusted teachers, and thats a shame. >> reporter: whats behind the so-called morality clause on steroids? mainly an increasing number of teacher lawsuits. last year in cincinnati, a federal jury ordered the archdiocese to pay this unmarried teacher $170,000 after she was fired for using in vitro fertilization. we asked the archbishop to meet with us and explain the new contract. ask him some of the same questions that teachers and their supporters have been asking us, but...

Element. and its a way to -- were already talking about it. but this is a fight with future hearings already scheduled that is not over. they may be betting that it will fall on deaf ears to the vast majority of the american people, that this is essentially an echo chamber debate. but this is exactly the way to get attention for a book that is coming out now. this is the chapter that everybody wanted to see. this is the controversy. >> all right, john avlon, thank you very much. now, imagine a...

Family. >> i dont believe that. you know, i dont think you can separate the two. >> reporter: there have been protest rallies and billboards asking would pope francis sign the new catholic teacher contract. 43-year veteran language teacher roger rosen did sign, but held his nose. >> i signed it because im cowardly, and i would like to be able to have a check at the end of the week. isnt that terrible? >> reporter: there is also worry that students will suffer. >> the students cannot feel comfort...

Money, most definitely. >> reporter: but a newly revised morality clause in next years contract covering 2200 teachers in greater cincinnati is throwing teachers for a loop, including shoemate. she is walk weigh from her dream job after 14 years. >> its sad, and my spirit is broken. >> reporter: the new contract now has a litany of thou shalt knotts, including no sex outside marriage, no in vitro fertilization, no remarriage without an annulment, no homosexual lifestyle, and no public support of...

Allegedly racially prejudice. i bet at least 90% of the players in the nba are african-american. doc rivers was brought over to the clippers, hes african-american. alvin gentry, associate coach for the clippers, african-american. how hypocrite call to be hiring all the black men to lead their team to victory and to bring a ton of money. and to also bring in chris paul, another black man to play for the clippers, to take the clippers to the top and behind the scenes hes talking to people about bl...

They can only tell chirp and punish them for free speech or publishing things like this retweet if its a substantial disruption to the school? how would this be a substantial disruption? you argue its not a substantial disruption issue its a conduct clause? >> its the policy and -- it has a morality clause. theres a policy regulation that covers all the students, if you didnt allow for policy regulations. >> if theres something at the school if you are playing soccer at this school, you better...

It ends up ginning up a lot more support for phil robertson and grabs a lot more attention to the situation. >> what do you think theyre going to do, mercedes? >> i think theyre going to keep him. theres been such an outcry against anyone opposing robertson. theyre going to keep him. theres 12 million viewers a night. thats unbelievably high. probably the highest rating cable show. >> theyve been mum for quite a while. cracker barrel turned within 24 hours, but a&e seems to be mulling this over ...

And they have a come -- compelling case. he wont go to jail. this is a secures and exchange case. but that means theyll bar him from the business. >> changing the nature of oversight. >> theyre looking to basically end his career as a public fund manager. basically looking to put him out of business, managing other peoples money. this is a pretty big case, and what is interesting is that theyre going at it not with a the charge you think is explosive, but because at it they have so much in their...

Metastasize with horrible unintended consequences, organized crime. theres a group of people who feel theyve lost control of their country and want to take it back. they can take it back by the demonization of recent immigrants of the united states and as always, african-americans. its about unfunded congressional mandates. everything that were talking about today is alive in the prohibition story. if you back up, rewind and its not just about model ts careening around rain-slicked chicago stree...

Is moral turpitude. martha: not holding a knife to his wifes neck. >> awful the stuff was way before they started to terminate the contract. they only terminated the k*rt after he lodged insults alternate the producers of the stores. this stuff has been going on nor months and weeks. they say what can we say charlie shows up and we make billions of dollars. this is about money. martha: they basically laughed it off. as long as he was showing up for work and making money for everybody they were h...