[Unam Sanctam]

In Massachusetts, Catholic Charities was told they had to accept homosexual couples in their adoption service, or get out of the adoption business. They chose correctly—get out of the business.

No, the correct course would have been to challenge this in court on First Amendment grounds. It still rankles me that the Church did not do this.

[rovenstinez]

And the 2nd Amendment also is in peril. Where now days can people actually bear arms?

[Claud]

Wouldn’t it be a grand display of episcopal leadership for the bishop(s) to order Catholic Charities to proceed as usual and then dare state officials to arrest them?

[annalex]

challenge this in court on First Amendment grounds

You don't go to court unless you are willing to submit to a decision against you, and the Church cannot subject herself to any temporal court. Least of all to the court system that holds abortion legal, and, increasingly, gay "marriage" legal.

[LibertarianLiz]

I'm waiting for the first "gay" couple to go into a Catholic church, request to be married; and then, when the Priest refuses, take them to court.

Perhaps then the Catholic church will take them on.

I believe this scenario is only a matter of time.