Thankyou for bringing that up. I had never thought of that and that rank hypocrisy is valuable in pointing out the disingenousness of the claim that treating married gay couples as married “infringes” on their religious “freedom”.

The phrase just begs to be completed, and seems to lead to either “for white slavery” or “for” some darker purpose involving human sacrifice, cannibalism, and an eventual zombie apocalypse.

The AFA reeks of sanctimony and santorum (Google it).

I believe this because their reasoning is simply unbelievable. For years the Church’s social service agencies, hospitals, schools, universities and colleges all complied with Civil Rights laws that protected both religious belief and marital status. Thus, even though the Catholic Church regards remarriage after divorce as adultery, a Catholic hospital could not deny the second husband of one of their nurses health benefits. So why now, and only with homosexuality, is the Church so concerned about their religious beliefs? Heresy, blashpemy, fornication and adultery are all sins equal to, if not worse than, homosexuality, but there has never been a protest by the Church about having to treat the people who choose to live in those sins equally to faithful Catholics.

IMO, as a former Catholic, that only makes their actions sadder. Any Catholic I know, myself included, can point to warm, loving and wonderful gay priests who truly met all the expectations one should have someone in that position. The leadership of the Church must know them as well, so they know their own actions have no foundations. They would have more integrity if they were mere bigots.

Catholicism was once known to offer loving care to all… schools have typically welcomed non-Catholic families, for example.

So, it strikes me as appropriate that a genuinely compassionate, professional, social service agency would no longer identify as Catholic.

(unlikely)

Well, stop looking in their dark hearts. Go over to the NOM website. The light is so much better.