Posted on 03/23/2006 2:56:26 PM PST by dukeman
Top Cardinal is "decidedly unqualified", says resolution
SAN FRANCISCO- In one of the most startling attacks on the Catholic Church coming from a governmental body in the United States in half a century, the governing body of the city of San Francisco - the Board of Supervisors - voted unanimously Tuesday to approve a non-binding resolution blasting the Catholic Church for its opposition to homosexual adoption.
While many city's residents agree with the Church's stand against homosexual adoption, the resolution stated "It is an insult to all San Franciscans when a foreign country, like the Vatican, meddles with and attempts to negatively influence this great city's existing and established customs and traditions, such as the right of same-sex couples to adopt and care for children in need."
The city supervisors levelled an ad hominem attack on former San Francisco Archbishop William Levada, who has been appointed to head the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), one of the most senior posts in the Church. " Cardinal Levada is a decidedly unqualified representative of his former home city, and of the people of San Francisco and the values they hold dear,'' the resolution stated.
The supervisors also demonstrated their childishness as they attempted another dig at the Cardinal by indicating in the resolution that the CDF was once known as the Office of the Inquisition. "That the Board of Supervisors urges Cardinal William Levada, in his capacity as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith at the Vatican (formerly known as Holy Office of the Inquisition), to withdraw his discriminatory and defamatory directive that Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of San Francisco stop placing children in need of adoption with homosexual households," reads the resolution.
The resolution attacked the teaching of the Catholic Church that homosexual adoption does "violence" to children since they would be placed in an environment that is not conducive to their full human development. The resolution blasted the teaching as "hateful and discriminatory rhetoric (that) is both insulting and callous, and shows a level of insensitivity and ignorance which has seldom been encountered by this Board of Supervisors.''
Demonstrating their own profound ignorance, at least in terms of biological realities, the supervisors contend, "Same-sex couples are just as qualified to be parents as are heterosexual couples."
Concluding, the board urged current San Francisco "Archbishop Neiderauer and the Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of San Francisco to defy all discriminatory directives of Cardinal Levada."
You're late. This was posted earlier today. See:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1601388/posts
As this body also deems the US Military unnecessary they should be allowed to stew in their own little cesspool.
If I was Catholic I would pull ALL charities out of San Francissy. Let the "good" folks there start meeting the needs of the less fortunate. Yeah, right. Like they would literally get their heads out of their own butts to help anyone.
Tell the Board of Supervisors that you'll never spend another cent in San Francisco.
Tell them that you'll never visit...EVER!
How can I live with the shame?
These homos need a lesson in civil discourse.
Wow! That has got to be the very best and all inclusive description of SF yet.
Good job!
It's all about "tolerance" in the city by the bay.
Once again everyone can voice their opinions but those who disagree. I don't think the Catholics are asking for or care about their opinion. They have their faith and religion and their rules.
A little complicated that.
SF is actually one of the more Catholic cities in the US. It has probably one of the highest rates of parochial school enrollment in the country (15%). Maybe 1/3 of the city is Catholic.
We have a substantial insane liberal atheist minority, and a rather larger number of just plain liberal atheists, but there are a lot of genuine Catholics here.
...and about intolerance of all who don't subscribe to their idea of 'tolerance'.
Maybe 1/3 of this city are good conservatives, and we would rather not be stewed, thank you.
Secular Humanism is a religion of peace too I see.
The board does not care for such mundane things.
We SF conservatives, on the other hand ...
If I lived in that city, I'd find religion too, if only out of fear.
The real weirdos are very easy to avoid.
And don't bother reading the local newspapers.
Anyway, perhaps the 1/3 of the city that is Catholic better start voting and take back control.
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