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Same-sex ‘marriage’ law forces D.C. Catholic Charities to close adoption program
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.- Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Washington announced today that it is shutting down its foster care and public adoption program. The District of Columbia said the charity would be ineligible for service because of the new law recognizing same-sex “marriage.” “Although Catholic Charities has an 80-year legacy of high quality service to the vulnerable in our nation’s capital, the D.C. Government informed Catholic Charities that the agency would be ineligible to serve as a foster care provider due to the impending D.C. same-sex marriage law,” the organization said in a statement. The Catholic Charities affiliate transitioned its foster and adoption program to the National Center for Children and Families (NCCF) on Feb. 1. The transition includes seven staff, 43 children and their biological families, and 35 foster families. The transition was scheduled to coincide with the expiration of the current contract between Catholic Charities and D.C.’s Child and Family Services Agency (CFSA). “Foster care has been an important ministry for us for many decades. We worked very hard to be able to continue to provide these services in the District,” said Ed Orzechowski, president and CEO of Catholic Charities D.C. “We regret that our efforts to avoid this outcome were not successful.” Orzechowski expressed gratitude to the staff and foster families involved in the program. The D.C. City Council’s law recognizing same-sex “marriage” required religious entities which serve the general public to provide services to homosexual couples, even if doing so violated their religious beliefs. Exemptions were allowed only for performing marriages or for those entities which do not serve the public. The archdiocese and legal experts criticized the exemptions for being too narrow. D.C. law also now requires partners with the city to provide benefits for same-sex couples. This also poses a problem for Catholic Charities, though the Washington Post reports that the organization is optimistic it can structure benefits in a way that would allow it to remain in partnerships with the city. Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, slammed the District’s actions. “Archbishop Donald Wuerl is a man of principle and prudence: he did not want to end the foster-care program, but he was left with no realistic option,” Donohue said Wednesday. “District lawmakers could have granted the kind of religious exemptions that would have ensured a continuation of services, but instead they sought to create a Catch-22 situation for the archdiocese. “Surely they knew that Archbishop Wuerl was not going to negotiate Catholic Church teachings on marriage, yet that hardly mattered to them. The real losers are the children who were served by the Catholic Church.” Those who characterized the Catholic Church’s actions on the issue as neglectful of the children, Donohue claimed, were “phonies.” “Archbishop Wuerl isn't about to allow the state to run roughshod over Catholic doctrine, and that is why he is being forced to drop the foster-care program.” CNA sought comment from Archbishop of Louisville Joseph E. Kurtz, chairman of the U.S. Bishops’ Ad Hoc Committee for the Defense of Marriage. He was unavailable for an interview. Catholic Charities of Boston was forced to close its adoption services in 2006 because it would no longer place children with homosexual couples, as required by state law. Laws have also forced Catholic adoption societies in Britain either to close or to disaffiliate from the Church. Subscriber comments:
Published by: Theresa
Chandler, AZ, USA 02/22/2010 02:44 PM EST  Rate: Good
I am a cradle Catholic, and believe that ALL God's children should be treated equally. Regardless of the family situation, children need parenting. I understand the Catholic Church's feeling about marriage, but sometimes we have to look past this and if we really are thinking of children, we should be happy that a family wants to adopt/foster them. Families come in all shapes, sizes, religions and make-ups. Perhaps someday the church will look beyond this. Pray can help.
Published by: Anne
Florida 02/22/2010 02:32 PM EST Rate: Regular
Thanks be to God for our brave Archbishop! I'm sorry for those of you who spend your life trying to twist God's commands and teachings to satisfy yourselves. Always some excuse and justify going against Christ. At the end of the day, if you have all the money, prestige and power of the world, and then you smile and gloat about it, but you don't have Christ- what do have? NOTHING.
Published by: Kacey
Philadelphia 02/22/2010 02:23 PM EST
It is clear someone sent out a mailing saying come to this Catholic site and judge and hate. The laws are for everyone and everyone must comply? There is no freedom of religion? Think your logic through. Hitler's law was to place Jews in concentration camps. It's the law. Everybody get on board! The United States made it law that people were slaves by the color of their skin. It's the law, people... so obviously it is right. Currently, we have laws that say we can kill our children, but abosolutely MUST protect trees. The fact is that freedom of religion and speech are to be protected, because otherwise we default into our own failings as a race and even worse facism. Look up the explanation on Britanic, but read it in totality. This is a travesty and as a student of history it has been done before. Silence the church. Silence opposition under the guise of hate. Only those who get in line will have freedom. The intolerant decide the tolerance. Rules become arbitrary. I pray the church will fight this to protect all dissenters not just those I agree with.
Published by: Ron Pichlik
Battle Creek, MI USA 02/21/2010 09:51 PM EST
There is no such thing as same-sex marriage. God ordained marriage as between one man and one woman. The Catechism of the Catholic Church properly, and correctly defines homosexuality as disoredered thought; God didn't make anyone homosexual or wrong gendered. God doesn't make mistakes; people get psychologically messed-up. Same sex attraction may simply be the cross that some are called to bear; perhaps they are called to lead lives of spiritual contemplation and prayer. I'm not sure when our society became so wrapped up with defining people almost exclusively by their sexuality. Those who criticize the Church and her charities by suggesting that somehow they are self-martyring themselves and being judgmental, etc. simply do not get it. The Church has not, can not, and never will compromise with extrinsic evil or the truth for that matter. As a result the Church cannot abandon the teachings handed down to it by Christ and the Apostles simply to "go with the flow". To anyone who might care, I'll close with a quote from the late Archbiship Fulton Sheen: "The truth is the truth even if no one believes it; and, a lie is a lie even if everyone believe it".
Published by: Kira
San Francisco, CA 02/21/2010 06:00 PM EST Rate: Regular
Nobody "forced" them to do anything. They *chose* to end their foster care program because they did not want to comply with the laws that every other organization must. They thought they should be above the law just because they are a "religious organization". Why should they be able to flaunt the law just by citing their religious beliefs? What good is the law if anybody can flaunt it that easily?
The law must apply to all. If people want to get government money and provide services under government auspices they need to obey applicable laws. If they can't hack it that's not the fault of others.
Published by: Sarah
Chicago, IL 02/20/2010 02:40 PM EST
It's really disappointing that the Catholic Church would put culture wars above helping those in need. It is attitudes like this within the institution of the Church that make it so difficult for me to identify as a Christian. The Church is now holding children and the needy hostage because leadership isn't getting it's way. This move reveals the hatred and bigotry of Church executives, and is making others suffer over political differences. There are good people in the Catholic Church whom I know do not support this move. This is shameful.
Published by: Tom
Florida 02/20/2010 11:24 AM EST
It's really amusing watching Catholics marginalize themselves for the sake of their dogmatic bigotry.
Great work! Keep it up!
Published by: Tsepho
Charlotte 02/19/2010 12:50 PM EST
Tim, in Genesis, after God created everything, and saw that it was good, He also said, "be fertile and multiply." A gay couple cannot do this. You are misguided in your thought. Many, many psychiatrists disagreed with the APA's decision to cease calling homosexuality a disorder. Most believe that it was more a political decision than a scientific one.
Published by: Tsepho
Charlotte 02/19/2010 12:42 PM EST
Sayadina, you are greatly misinformed. Try to get your facts straight before making judgments on people. There is a lot more to Catholic Charities that its adoption program- a whole lot more.
Published by: Mike
Washington, DC 02/19/2010 11:05 AM EST
Using scare quotes does not render civic same-sex marriages invalid; CNA is being childish by using them.
The fact remains that Catholic Charities is choosing to leave this area of social service rather than accept that it must offer benefits to its own employees, which is short-sighted and petty.
Published by: Frank
Madrid, Spain 02/19/2010 07:39 AM EST
For Jeff: Kindly recall that Jesus had only one father: The Father. St. Joseph was his legal, not his biological father. ¿How is it that such a basic theological distinction is not respected? Frank 19 FEB 10
Published by: Sayadina
oakland ca usa 02/19/2010 01:50 AM EST
I understand that the Catholic Church receives $20 million annually to take care of the 43 children paying 7 staff members. Where is that money going? That is obscene!!
That comes to $465,116 per child per year. I know that most foster parents receive about $700 per child per month to help with the costs of raising the child that is $8,400 per year. So where is the rest of our tax payer dollars going? Let’s see health care is most likely carried by the state so let’s be extremely generous and say that is another $700 per month covers health care and other items such as clothing school supplies etc which is $16,800 total per year per child. What else could possibly account for the remaining $448,316 per year per child? So total budget is $20 million per year, expenditures for children $722,400 per year leaves $19,277,600 per year. There were 7 staff members so did they each make approximately $2.8 million dollars per year? I so want that job!!!!!
Every tax payer should demand that these foster children are given a silver spoon education, clothing and social life because we are certainly paying for it. How did this contract ever go to the church?
Published by: George
Youngstown, Ohio 02/18/2010 10:39 PM EST
The Wahington DC, Boston, as the whole US is puting Sodome and Gomorah to shame. The so called Catholic homosexual guy forgot to mention if his partner can procreat a child.
The freedom wrongly interpreted can become an instrument of evil.
America must get back to it Christian conservative reality.
God Bless Archbishop Wuerl for a good response to this goverment.
The homosexual Catholic guy must be sure that the Catholic love him but hate his sin. He should start to re-read the bible and study some moral theology.
George
Published by: Belinda
Indiana 02/18/2010 10:23 PM EST
No one is forcing them to close. If they won't see two men or two women as viable parent options, they can change their 'rules' regarding whether or not a couple has to be MARRIED to adopt. They're just playing the martyr by saying they have to close. Its ridiculous and only draws the lines in the sand even deeper.
Published by: Lorenzo-NY
NY/NY/USA 02/18/2010 08:05 PM EST
Catholic Charities may remain Catholic. They cease to be charitable, and not to mention Christian.
Published by: Margaret Keller
Baltimore MD USA 02/18/2010 06:13 PM EST
I am glad that they are standing up for our Catholic Church.
Published by: Tim
Washington, DC 02/18/2010 05:53 PM EST
Many, many, many good and faithful Catholics who live in Washington, DC support the District's law which now will take another step down the road toward ending discrimination and allow those men and women whom God created with a same-sex sexual orientation to commit to civilly recognized relationships in marriage.
Many religious leaders -- including priests and religious -- also testified publicly before the DC Council in support of this new law. I pray that during this Lenten Season Archbishop Wuerl will see the error of his decision and will not only allow the resumption of adoption services, but will also come to see that God's gay children are created gay by God; and, as Genesis says, "... and God saw that it was good."
Published by: DLL
scituate Mass. USA 02/18/2010 05:30 PM EST
Jeff: I don't get it! Why is being termed a homosexual such a class distinction,as compared to being Catholic,Protestant,Muslim,Jewish,Hindu or a nationality such as:Irish,English,German,Russian,American,etc? Why is the homosexual the only one who is loving and NOT hateful? It appears that it seems to be that the whole world is against the homosexual and they are all unloving but the homosexual is closest to the Sacred Heart of Jesus because only they can love? It may be that your agenda is what people can't in a spirit of a good conscience accept. Being attracted to the same sex isn't a sin.So God bless. Living an active homosexual lifestyle is a sin."Love the sinner hate the sin". I am glad however that you are a Catholic brother in Christ. Happy Lent!
Published by: Bruce
Colorado Springs/CO/USA 02/18/2010 05:04 PM EST
Jeff, unfortunately you've never read your Catechism, because you cannot receive Holy Eucharist if you are in a state of mortal sin. Sex outside of marriage is a mortal sin, and marriage is only defined as being between one man and one woman for life. So if you are engaging in homosexual sex, you are in a state of mortal sin. If you are doing so on purpose, you have already excommunicated yourself, and are therefore no longer Catholic. The door is always open, but like Christ, you have to take up your cross like the rest of us.
Published by: Tsepho
Charlotte 02/18/2010 04:34 PM EST
Jeff, I don't see hate in the comments on this post. I see a frustrated reaction to a small amount of gay activists who have influenced unjust laws against the Church. And you are right, the Church is all about love - but it is also about truth. You should look into the Catholic organization called "Courage." It is very compassionate - and speaks to those who struggle with same-sex attraction. Remember, Jeff, the "Truth will set you free" beyond your wildest imagination. God bless you.
Published by: Kay
US 02/18/2010 03:48 PM EST Rate: Very Good
Excellent reply, Dom. By the way, we lived in Albany years back.
Jan's reply is entirely ignorant I'm afraid. I'm a victim of sexual abuse and have read on this issue for years. Statistically, the molest offenders in the Church are lower than the general population of offenders. Not to mention the media hyped it up so much because it was sensationalist to make the Church look bad. The offender who molested me was a non-practicing protestant. I'm guessing there are more offenders in public institutions than any church. Sadly, homosexuals just want to promote their sexual orientation and it is all SELFISH. They will continue to push good people aside and many have even put good people out of jobs because the homosexuals are so intent on getting their point across (they don't care if the employee and their family are homeless!). It is quite evil and what is worse, I think most of them KNOW they are wrong but just don't want to listen to their conscience.
Published by: Irene
Colorado Springs/CO/USA 02/18/2010 03:25 PM EST
Well said, Dom! The Human Rights League is a hate group, beginning to border on terrorism. They need to be investigated.
Published by: Don Guillermo
West Sacramento/ CA/USA 02/18/2010 02:58 PM EST
It is unwise for the State to continue to provoke Christians like this. Religious freedom must be respected. If it had been respected in the District of Columbia, Catholic Charities would have been able to keep doing adoptions there. The Church is right to hold true to its identity. Thank God that it did. The harm done to adoptions in DC is on the so called gay rights activists. The only discrimination here is against the Church.
Published by: mary
San Antonio 02/18/2010 02:37 PM EST
STudies do not show that children are equally better off with homosexual couples. Homosexual couples are much more promiscuous, much more unstable as couples, and much more violent. In addition, homosexual couples have been found to use their adopted children for sexual purposes and even to pimp them out. Of course, some heterosexual couples also abuse their children, adoptive or otherwise. Finally, the homosexual couple is incapable of providing the template of male/female that a child needs to form his psyche, at least according to what psychology said from its founding until recently.
Published by: Odile Brock
long-time DC resident 02/18/2010 02:29 PM EST
This is a perfect situation for the Church to practice civil disobedience. Keep doing right by the children of DC. Don't accept adoption applications the Church feels are inappropriate for the children. Let DC cut off its funding. Let DC take that step. Let them cut off the best adoption agency in DC. Why back out?
If vilified, fined or arrested, Blessed are you! Thus did they treat the prophets before you.
Published by: Jeff
Washington, DC 02/18/2010 01:49 PM EST Rate: Regular
I'm Catholic (by choice!), I'm pro-life OH...and I'm gay. I've NEVER had any problem reconciling my homosexuality with the Catholic Church, how/why? Because the Church, while not officially endorcing homosexuality, preaches love, at least that's what drew me to the Church. Many of you who've posted here, while you may be catholic, aren't Catholic. While you aren't coming right out and saying it, your hate is bleeding through your words. In any evnet, while we're prhoibiting gays from marriage, lets talk about inter-racial couples, maybe we should revisit that? Oh...and, what about inter-religious couples, ie. Catholics and Lutherans. Not long ago, you couldn't be Catholic and marry outside the Church. Hummmm, I think that changed.
When gay couples adopt children, they are CHOOSING to adopt. It's not an "oops, honey, I'm pregnat," and then the child ends up in an orphanage. REMEMBER, these children in DC orphanages, aren't the product of gay couples, people. No, when hetrosexual couples can get their own houses in order and not divorce, molest, abandon, and kill their children, then you can start preaching to couples who 1)are fighting to secure the bonds of marriage, not trying to get out of them; 2) fighting to have families. Marriage and family = LOVE. How can you be against that?! Come to think of it, Christ was from an untraditional family, having two fathers...humm.
Love and Peace.
Published by: Cathy Frazier
Mendota Heights MN USA 02/18/2010 01:11 PM EST
Refreshing to see Catholic institutions standing up for their beliefs. Much needed!
Published by: Tom R
Pottstown, PA, USA 02/18/2010 01:10 PM EST
God Bless Archbishop Wuerl for standing firm on Catholic doctrine. Shame on DC's city council!!!
Published by: Dom
Albany NY 02/18/2010 11:36 AM EST Rate: Good
Chuck Anziulewicz/Shane/Jan: why do homosexuals so frequently mention your "tax dollars" as a reason for granting your various unreasonable demands for official recognition of their lifestyles? In case you haven't noticed, everyone pays taxes, and most people probably don't agree with every single government expenditure. As for the Church "feeding at the government trough" as you so crudely put it, the Church uses any grant money provided by the government for legitimate charitable purposes. Before you and your angry mob condemn of ingrates come down too hard on the Church, keep in mind that the Catholic Church has done more to ease the suffering and pain of AIDS victims, a homosexual disease, than any other government or charitable organization. We stand up for our beliefs, and these things are not negotiable. The big difference between the Catholic Church and your militant lobby is that we try to live according to faith and help others, the homosexual lobby on the other hand is based purely on hedonistic selfishness, which is pretty clear from your guys' comments. Has the Human Rights League encouraged you to monitor this site to spread more venom? Do yourself a favor, save your soul, and look into the teachings of the Catholic Church. It's never too late to turn away from the homosexual lifestyle, help is available, you need only ask for it. I pray that you do.
Published by: Mark
Farmington, CT USA 02/18/2010 10:49 AM EST
Catholics are a diverse group. Many are Democrats who agree that this action is horrible and also agree that same sex marriage is wrong.
But, that doesn't make all homosexuals bad people. (disagree with the act not the people)
Please don't take the easy road and politicize this by slapping labels on it. Every group has their extremists.
Who only elevate their fervor to insight fear. Usually these fringes will make their comments public every chance they get. Hoping this will rile a few as a call to action. But is that any way to fix problems we actually agree on? Nope, its divisive, and divided we fall.
You can still make intelligent arguments without cranking up the spin machine.
After all we are tolerant of each other aren't we?
Catholics Unite!
This is about the children. It has happened elsewhere as the article above states. We have to work to find common groud on this. Enough blame game.
Published by: JP
Toronto 02/18/2010 10:41 AM EST
This is just sad and unfortunate. No one will suffer except the children. Talk about bigoted/ biased! Where is the freedom of choice? The Catholic charities are not imposing anything on anyone. They simply exist to create an alternative option for those who seek one. Taking away that option is a violation of one of the basic freedoms we enjoy. Who's intolerant now?
Published by: Steve
philadephia, PA 02/18/2010 10:24 AM EST Rate: Regular
I do not understand Catholic Charities. Study after study has shown that regardless if the parents are hetero or gay - they both can raise normal happy children. it is not the orientation of the partent that matters it is the love and nurturing they receive at home. gay life styles may be a sin but they do no harm when it comes to raising children..and if some one can provide me evidence of a study that says they do I would appreciate it but I doubt if any one can. All CC is doing is hurting deserving children.
Published by: Anne
Florida 02/18/2010 10:02 AM EST
Doing the right thing isn't always easy. Archbishop Wuerl absolutly did the right thing. Watering down and changing the faith that Christ instituted for us some 2000 years ago, just to please some selfish, faithless, living in darkness politicians will never do. JC in CAL- Why in the world do you expect a handout from the government to run your daycare in DC, especially when you discriminate against children of other faiths? You want to teach our christian faith to others? Where is you humility and love towards others? How many are you going to attract with all that venom?
Published by: DLL
scituate Mass. USA 02/18/2010 09:51 AM EST
Placing children with homosexuals is unwise because homosexual marriage is at best,a new societal experiment that is hardly proven to be a stable home situation for any child. In the late 60's homosexuality was a mental illness. If being a thief became all of a sudden became an acceptable human condition and they could marry and adopt children,the final result of the upbringing would be an obvious mistake. No one at this point in time,who cares for the welfare of a child's upbringing,could predict the overall outcome of a homosexual couple nurturing of a child. It hasn't happened at this time as homosexuals are still fighting for marriage rights. Homosexual relations have caused enough trouble with the spread of physical diseases such as AIDS. The societal damage 20 years down the line of homosexual nurturing could be a disaster. Maybe this would be proved false in time but at this point in time the church stand against these adoptions is in keeping with the teachings of the Catholic Church. Supporting sinfulness is the other factor for the Church and that they can never condone.
Published by: Chuck Anziulewicz
Spring Hill, West Virginia, USA 02/18/2010 09:42 AM EST Rate: Regular
The question is not whether the Archdiocese of Washington has "religious freedom" to discriminate against Gay couples, but whether they are accepting public funds in the process! Gay people are taxpayers too, and I don't want my tax dollars going to organizations that discriminate against me, any more than a Catholic would want his tax dollars going toward an organization that discriminates against Catholics.
Catholic Charities of Boston went through this same situation years ago. I frankly couldn't care less if their adoption service discriminated against Gay couples or Muslim couples or whomever. Problem was, Catholic Charities of Boston were being funded by the State of Massachusetts to the tune of a million bucks per year! And they were given a choice: Either stop discriminating against Gay couples, or give up their public funding. They chose to give up the funding. Fine by me. You wanna feed at public trough, you'd better be prepared to play by the rules.
Published by: Ray
Essex, Ct 02/18/2010 08:13 AM EST
I support this very difficult decision by the church. Be assured that the resources will be used for other social services as important, because that is what the church does better than most others. Some commentators on this story are very distorted and angry. God will bless them anyway.!!!
Published by: Thomas Paine
Maryland 02/18/2010 12:09 AM EST
There is a reason that in every single state in which the legalization of homosexual marriage has been put to a ballot, it has been defeated. The American people do not want marriage to mean anything but a union between a man and a woman. Call it a partnership, call it a domestic pairing, give them health benefits, whatever. Just don't try and rewrite the definition of the most basic building block of human society. The DC council will find out soon enough that they were wrong on this, that their citizens don't want this. Just like the gun laws, this too will be overturned. I have a lot of respect for Archbishop Wuerl standing up and playing hardball with the council. I feel sorry for the families that would have benefited from the adoptions though. Sad that they are the ones who lose because the council tried to force the Church into a corner. So much for the First Amendment huh?
Published by: Lendale
Cross Junction / VA 02/17/2010 10:43 PM EST
This is the same type of ruling proclamation that seeded the insanity of the Roman Empire into its on self inflections.Though the Rome Empire made continuos attempts to destroy our Holy Roman Catholic Church, its out come was to fall in its own malignant self destrution. As Jesus Christ assured ..."NOT EVEN THE GATES OF HELL WILL BE ABLE TO STAND AGAINST OUR HOLY ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH"Nothing escapes God's Governing Will
Published by: Bruce
Colorado Springs/CO/USA 02/17/2010 10:41 PM EST
God Bless Archbishop Wuerl for standing up against the oppressive government and the homosexual lobby! The state has no right to force its citizens to violate their consciences, and the Church will never stand for such measures. DC lost today, and lost badly. It is a shame that the homosexual lobby is so bent on destroying society.
Published by: Henry Vanden Brook
Grand Rapids 02/17/2010 09:52 PM EST
This was the wrong thing to do. Why did we run with our tail between our legs. We should continue doing what's right and go to jail or be shot or tortured for it, not close the doors on the children.
I say transfer the so called leaders out, and bring real leaders in. Archbishop Wuerl should step aside. Bill Donohue should quit. These are cowards, not Christians.
Published by: Tsepho
Charlotte 02/17/2010 08:42 PM EST
JC, your sarcasm makes no sense. Try and get to know the Catholic Church and what She really teaches. It is beautiful, it is true, and it shows respect to all major religions. In my experience, most people who criticize the Church base it on half-truths, or un-truths. The media is good at spinning those.
Published by: Francis Xavier T
Washington, D.C. 02/17/2010 08:24 PM EST
I am glad that DC is not eligible to have her own U.S. Congress Representative since they made the same-sex marriage law by force and without letting citizens to vote. Now, we will see HOW the gays, lesbians, and the trans in Dupont Circle open their own charity organization and foster care program. These people are so vicious and perverted. I pray that God will turn them around
Published by: JC
Ca 02/17/2010 08:10 PM EST Rate: Regular
This is horrible. I run a day care center in Washington D.C. and take money from the city, like Catholic Charities.
Pretty soon the city will force me to integrate Muslims, Hindu's, and Jews kids into my program. All I want to do raise the kids in the CORRECT religion and not that of the HEATHENS (MUSLIMS and Hindus, Jews are sort of OK.) Why can't the city give me a religious exemption to discriminate against the Muslims and Hindus that pay taxes that fund my day care center.
Published by: Charlie
NY 02/17/2010 07:38 PM EST
There are 2% of the entire Catholic clergy ever accused of molestation. Jan is erecting a straw man. There a far more "secular" child molesters and far more protestant clergy who molest as well.
If anything the DC government is actively persecuting the Church for having the courage to stand up for 2,000 years of teaching. If anything, the DC government is throwing children under the bus, not the church. If DC cares about kids give the Church an exemption. Catholic Adoption services is a labor of love not a constitutional right.
When the DC DSS cannot handle the added case load, I can guarantee the DC government will slither back to the Church, regardless of the Church's stance on marriage.
Published by: John Geiger
Georgia 02/17/2010 07:21 PM EST
Shame on the D.C. City Council. Their political means children will suffer.
Published by: Francis
Wareham Ma 02/17/2010 06:43 PM EST Rate: Good
This is not by accident. The Homosexuals and their secular, leftwing, liberal allies have declared war on the Catholic Church and Christianity in general. These people know that the Catholic Church stands in their way of pushing homosexual "marriage", homosexual "adoptions", abortion, and other social engineering invented and promoted by the leftwing, secular progressivists on the USA and the world. They are trying to get some members of the Church to renounce the teachings of Christ, natural law, and 2000 years of Catholic dogma (which are all one in the same) and to capitulate to their unnatural, liberal, and progressivist "dogmas" and "lifestyles". I am glad Catholic charities in Washington D.C. followed Boston's Catholic Charities and did the right thing by upholding Divine law and natural law and not capitulating to the leftwing secular liberals. Children need a mother and a father, not two "mothers" or two "fathers".
Published by: Angel
oklahoma city 02/17/2010 06:35 PM EST Rate: Very Good
God Bless Archbishop Wuerl for standing firm on Catholic doctrine. Shame on DC's city council
Published by: Tsepho
Charlotte 02/17/2010 06:23 PM EST
Get real, Jan.
Published by: Shane
Arlington 02/17/2010 06:04 PM EST Rate: Regular
The sooner adoption and foster care services are transferred to a non-biased/bigoted, sectarian group, the better! I don't want one penny of my tax dollars going to the Catholic church.
Published by: Jan
Washington DC 02/17/2010 05:22 PM EST Rate: Bad
Molestation and blackmail- a winning combination.
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