"Surely, this is a joke? How do they always manage to outdo themselves, time after time after time? Cardinal Levada isn't representing San Francisco, you morons; he is representing the doctrines of the Catholic Church to the world. Nor is the Church trying to "meddle" in your precious hedonistic, bacchanal "values, customs, and traditions"; it is only trying to promote what it believes is the truth. "
Exactly. They are trying to force catholic charities to defy catholic teaching by making them place children with same sex couples.
It is similar to attempts to force catholic hospitals to perform abortions and prescribe contraception.
If they want to place children in the homes of same sex couples, they should form their own adoption agency.
I'm guessing most mothers-to-be would prefer to work through the catholic agency.
Similarly, patients who go to a catholic hospital shouldn't expect an abortion, or a prescription for the pill. They can go to other hospitals for that.
"If they want to place children in the homes of same sex couples, they should form their own adoption agency.
I'm guessing most mothers-to-be would prefer to work through the catholic agency."
Yes, which is exactely why they won't do that, of course. They know they can't actually compete in the realm of ideas, so they try to either shut down the ideological competition or intimidate it into capitulating.