[CS-FSLUG] City attacks Catholic Church

[Legatus]

Ed Hurst wrote:
> I'm guessing most on the list are not Catholic. Still, we overlap on 
> such a broad range of things, you'd have to worry when a city government 
> openly attacks Catholics for doing the same things we all would likely do.
> 
>     http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49631
> 
> 
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> In the March 21 measure, the city's board condemned Catholic moral 
> teaching on homosexuality and urged the archbishop of San Francisco and 
> Catholic Charities of San Francisco to defy church directives 
> prohibiting homosexual adoptions.
> 
> The resolution alludes to the Vatican as a foreign country meddling in 
>       the affairs of the city and describes the church's moral teaching 
> and beliefs as "insulting to all San Franciscans," "hateful," "insulting 
> and callous," "defamatory," "absolutely unacceptable," "insensitive and 
> ignorant."
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> 
> Of course, the Catholics are hitting back with a lawsuit. While I'm 
> hardly surprised this happened in some place like San Francisco, what's 
> to stop other cities attacking *your* church?
> 
The Catholics are the largest owners of adoption agencies and hospitals. 
I expect the Catholic church to get out of those businesses with the 
imposition of governments(state & fed, etc) pushing them to distribute 
birth control, do abortions, and allow gay/single adoptions.

NOTE: As a adoptive parent of three kids from foster care, I have to add 
that all states allow gay adoption. Most just do it by letting single 
people adopt children. If this is an issue you are concerned with, then 
you might want to check out this back door around the citizens will.