In Illinois, bishops in three dioceses have announced that they have dropped their lawsuit against the state, and will shut down their adoption and foster care programs, after a civil union law required them to provide their services to same-sex couples.
Bishop Thomas Paprocki, Bishop Edward Braxton of Belleville, and Bishop Daniel Conlon, all agree that the "decision not to pursue further appeals was reached with great reluctance, but was necessitated by the fact that the State of Illinois has made it financially impossible for our agencies to continue to provide these services. Since we now need to close offices and lay off employees, further appeals would be moot.”
Um, except you wouldn't have to close facilities and lay off any people if you would simply let gay people adopt of foster children. I mean, you Catholics spend so much time saying it's all about the children, and you work for the children and you want to protect the children, but then you shut down an agency that would do so because you want to punish gay people for being gay.
Which, as always, begs the question: if you're going to stop your adoption and foster services because you might have to let a child live with a gay person, or gay couple, where is this holier than thou stance when it comes to Catholic priests raping children?
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That's the Catholic church, protecting children from gay people, but not from pedophile priests.
Is it any wonder that the Catholic church is seeing a decline in all of the "first world" countries?
ReplyDeleteThe funniest thing is the number of Catholics who support gay rights, birth control, etc. The hierarchy will always be behind it's members, now especially because they've been anti life for too long to back down now.
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