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Will, to teachers, even trusted teachers, and that's a shame. >> reporter: what's 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 through his representative, he said no. and instead gave us a copy of an open letter written by h...

Element. and it's a way to -- we're 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 applying for a job and being told you can't have sex outside of marriage. you can't have in vitro f...

Family. >> i don't believe that. you know, i don't 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 i'm cowardly, and i would like to be able to have a check at the end of the week. isn't that terrible? >> reporter: there is also worry that students will suffer. >> the students cannot feel comfortable coming out, if you will, to teachers, even trusted teachers. and that's a shame. >> reporte...

Money, most definitely. >> reporter: but a newly revised morality clause in next year's 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. >> it's 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 any of those. for shoemate, that homosexual ban is a slap in the face. her son zack is gay. >> th...

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, he's 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 he's talking to people about black jews being treated like dogs and i don't want blacks at my game. you have to be kidding me! th...