Comments on: Catholic Charities and Discrimination

By: LucasP

LucasP — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:52:21 +0000

If the Catholic Charities wished to promote their agends in agreement with teachings of their “One true faith” then they’d need to expel all Catholics who are divorced without a proper anullment, who use –gasp– contraception, and who support abortion rights, gay/lesbian rights, or who marry outside the faith. Kick out the adulterers too….

Pretty obvioous isn’t it?

By: CPT_Doom

CPT_Doom — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:42:38 +0000

My understanding was that the Church created Catholic Charities explicitly to avoid church/state issues. CC was supposed to be a secular, purely charitable arm of the Church, financed by Catholics but not run by the Church. Mr. O’Malley in Boston proved that understanding completely wrong.

And I know I’m beating a dead horse here, but let’s never forget that neither the MA nor the DC equal marriage laws in any way changed CC’s obligations to act without discrimination towards gays and lesbians. Both MA and DC had anti-discrimination ordinances govering LGBT people for years before these decisions.

By: cowboy

cowboy — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:47:57 +0000

Mr. Kincaid,

LDS Family Services primarily help LDS Couples in finding children. And you are right, the Mormons would rather not have any tax money if it comes with conditions.

I know a few LDS people were pursing their lips a bit when they heard lesbian Utah Legislator Christine Johnson is the surrogate mother for two gay men in Salt Lake City. That’s one way to get around the adoption restrictions.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 04:00:48 +0000

More power to the secular adoption agencies for stepping up to the plate and providing services previously offered by the homophobic Catholic Church. I hope that this issue gets a lot of press as it will embarrass the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church seems to following the proverbial cutting off of one’s nose to spite the face.

By: Frijondi

Frijondi — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:49:52 +0000

New bumper sticker –

Discrimination is a privilege, not a right.

Every once in a while I get a call from Catholic Charities, although I’ve asked them a couple times to remove me from their list. I politely tell them that there are other charities that do the same good works CC does without discriminating against anyone, and that these are the only ones I’m inclined to support.

By: Timothy Kincaid

Timothy Kincaid — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:22:00 +0000

andrew,

Good question and I’m not absolutely sure of the answer. My assumption is that these are children of Mormons.

By: andrew

andrew — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:04:45 +0000

Tim, just out of curiosity, where do the Mormon’s in MA “get” those children? Does the state funnel needy children to them, or would a parent looking to give up a child / infant have to approach the Mormon organization?

By: Timothy Kincaid

Timothy Kincaid — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:09:11 +0000

Alternately, the Catholic Charities could do what the Mormon adoption agencies did in Massachusetts. They could fund themselves and continue to place children only in families that fit their criteria.

I don’t object to parents deciding that they want their child to be adopted only by someone who has the Catholic faith or by someone who only is heterosexual. Just don’t do it with my gay Protestant tax money.

By: Ephilei

Ephilei — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 18:45:12 +0000

As a Christian, I believe the Church should get out of government as it limits what she can do, making her submit to the government’s morality. As pro-gay, I agree with the government’s morality over the Catholic Church’s, but more often not. As a supporter of America’s First Amendment, I believe that hiring religious institutions to contract the government’s work violates the government’s promise not to respect or encourage any religion.