Leslie Shaw Klinger: Most Catholics support conservative archbishop

Re “Ad calls for S.F. archbishop’s ouster” (Page A5, April 17): The writer fails to mention some interesting facts:

The San Francisco Chronicle ran a poll asking if Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone should be removed. Seventy-nine percent voted no for one reason: the archbishop is upholding Catholic teachings.

Here’s an idea: If you do not want your children learning Catholic teachings, do not send them to Catholic schools.

Here’s another: If you do not want to work for a school that requires certain behavior of their employees, i.e. that they uphold and model the core values taught at that school, don’t work there.

And finally: If you do not want to uphold and model, to the best of your ability, the core values of your religion, then change your religion. Stop demanding the religion change to suit you.

Granted, all this requires common sense and application of reason – something that seems sadly lacking in the world today.

Honor diversity. Let us be Catholic. Let us educate our children. Let us worship as we see fit. We are Catholic because we want to be.

This story was originally published April 30, 2015 at 11:05 AM with the headline "Leslie Shaw Klinger: Most Catholics support conservative archbishop."