Comments on: Catholic Charities Ends Spousal Benefits

By: [links] Link salad for a rain forest Sunday | jlake.com

[links] Link salad for a rain forest Sunday | jlake.com — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:11:09 +0000

[...] Catholic Charities Ends Spousal Benefits — n a bid to avoid inadvertently providing spousal benefits to gay men and women who happen to be employees, Catholic Charities of Washington, D.C. , has taken the extraordinary step of ending spousal benefits for all of its employees, the Washington City Paper reports. Stay classy, conservative America. It’s what you do best, along with forcing women to remain pregnant, ruining the economy, and launching trillion dollar wars of choice. [...]

By: Ben in Oakland

Ben in Oakland — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:05:59 +0000

I am indeed, and a truly great one.

By: RodW

RodW — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:53:34 +0000

This policy change is for Catholic Charities in the DC area only. In San Francisco, they actually figured out a win-win solution years ago after the City of SF mandated that all city contractors offer equal spousal benefits. Catholic Charities SF changed their benefits policy to remove any mention of spouses, and offer benefits to another adult member of the employee’s household (and their kids). Wonder why DC couldn’t do likewise and had to pull this juvenile stunt instead…?

By: kevin K

kevin K — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:14:17 +0000

So when are all the gay priests going to lose their health coverage?

And does this mean the Pope has to buy his own insurance?

By: Tim Hulsey

Tim Hulsey — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 04:15:26 +0000

@ Ben in Oakland: Ummm … you are aware that HADRIAN THE SEVENTH is a work of fiction, are you not?

By: Richard W. Fitch

Richard W. Fitch — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 02:29:43 +0000

^^doesn’t like^^

By: Richard W. Fitch

Richard W. Fitch — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 02:11:41 +0000

Eddie89 – and in this instance, he did. The Mass was aborted……..wait RCC does like that term, so computerese, it experienced an ABEND(abnormal end).

By: Eddie89

Eddie89 — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:57:21 +0000

This news item just cross my desk. This is not directly related to this article, but it is Catholic related. Best quote from the article:

The man at the centre of the row has said he just wants equal treatment - if he is regarded as a sinner, he wants the priest to refuse communion to all other sinners too.

Netherlands gay protest over Catholic communion snub

By: homer

homer — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:52:48 +0000

And now the rest of us taxpayers get to pay the hospital bills for the spouses/partners/children of new employees. Isn’t that convenient? The Catholic Church gets to save a pile of money while pretending to be martyrs.

By: Richard W. Fitch

Richard W. Fitch — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:39:10 +0000

@Jon: Well, at least those umpteenth marriages are between ‘a man and a woman’.
@Donnchadh: I believe that it is legal to continue spouse benefits under the new policy for those previously enrolled on the same basis that CA SSM were not invalidated. RE: voting rights, that played out on an entirely different field.