The Archdiocese of Cincinnati revised its employment contracts for parochial schoolteachers, with the new version specifying a long list of fireable offenses, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer. Teachers may not improperly use social media; cohabit before marriage; lead a “homosexual lifestyle;” have an abortion; use a surrogate, artificial insemination or in vitro fertilization—or publicly support these choices. Each teacher must “serve as a Catholic role model, inside and outside the classroom, regardless of his/her personal beliefs or other religious affiliation.”

Archdiocese officials said that lawsuits in the region spurred the new contract language, according to the Enquirer. In 2010, the Cincinnati Archdiocese was ordered to pay an unmarried teacher $171,000 for improperly firing her after she became pregnant through in vitro fertilization.

Regarding the new “teacher-minister” title for the 2,200 parochial teachers under the revised contract, David Ball, co-chairman of the Religious Organizations Subcommittee of the American Bar Association, told the Associated Press, “I’m not sure that would hold up in all cases.” Mike Moroski, who was fired from his assistant principal position at a Cincinnati Catholic high school last year for supporting marriage equality in his blog, told the Cincinnati Dispatch, “This contract will force some people to lie to keep their jobs, and they don’t want to do that.” Parents and parishioners are planning to appeal the new policy to the superintendent.