Catholic Ping List
Please freepmail me if you want on/off this list
Posted on 04/06/2006 5:17:12 PM PDT by wagglebee
(AgapePress) - A resolution passed unanimously by San Francisco's Board of Supervisors has prompted a lawsuit alleging the city officials have launched a "startling attack" on the Catholic Church, its teachings and beliefs, and its adherents.
On March 21, the Board of Supervisors voiced their approval of a resolution condemning Catholic moral teaching on homosexuality and urging the Archbishop of San Francisco and Catholic Charities of San Francisco to defy church directives prohibiting adoptions by homosexual households. According to the Thomas More Law Center, which has filed the lawsuit on behalf of two Catholic citizens of San Francisco and the Catholic League, Catholic doctrine states that allowing children to be adopted by homosexuals effectively places those children in an environment that is not "conducive to their full human development."
"[S]uch policies are gravely immoral and Catholic organizations [a reference to Catholic Charities] must not place children for adoption in homosexual households," says a Law Center press release.
In addition to calling on local Catholic leaders to defy church teachings, the Board's resolution alludes to the Vatican as a foreign country "meddling" in the city's affairs, and describes the church's moral teachings and beliefs as "insulting to all San Franciscans," "hateful," and "insulting and callous."
Robert Muise, the Law Center attorney handling the case, explains the rationale behind the lawsuit. "[The U.S. Constitution] forbids hostility toward any religion," he says. "In total disregard for the Constitution, homosexual activists in position of authority in San Francisco are abusing their authority as government officials and misusing the instruments of government to attack the Catholic Church."
He calls the Board's move an "abuse of power" and "a clear violation" of the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the Constitution.
The lawsuit alleges that the resolution adopted by the Board of Supervisors essentially tells not just the plaintiffs, but all those who adhere to the Catholic faith, that they are "outsiders" and "not full members of the political community." At the same time, says the lawsuit, the measure tells those who oppose Catholic doctrine regarding homosexual unions and adoption they are "insiders" and "favored members of the political community."
Says Richard Thompson, president of the Thomas More Law Center, "San Francisco may as well as have put up signs at [the] city limits [saying] 'Faithful Catholics Not Welcomed.'"
Catholic League president William Donohue agrees. "Make no mistake about it," he says. "Resident Catholics have been told, however indirectly, that the government does not look kindly on their right to publicly express their religion."
Donohue reminds the Board of Supervisors that the so-called "separation of church and state" is a two-way street.
"Imagine what would have happened if the Vatican had condemned the San Francisco Board of Supervisors for 'meddling' in the internal affairs of the Catholic Church simply because the two entities disagreed on a public policy issue?" he wonders. "Separation of church and state cuts both ways."
He adds that when elected representatives accuse members of any religion of interfering in municipal affairs, the inevitable result is a "chilling effect on the rights of the faithful."
As opposed to the prevailing immorality that the leftists in San Francisco embrace.
DISCUSSION ABOUT:
"Lawsuit Alleges City Resolution Labels Catholics as 'Outsiders' (San Francisco)"
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
To be included in or removed from the MORAL ABSOLUTES PINGLIST, please FreepMail wagglebee.
To be included in or removed from the HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA PINGLIST, please FreepMail either DBeers or DirtyHarryY2K.
Just another step by the forces of evil to destroy anything that's holy and decent. Led, as always, by the left.
You guys hang tough! We're with you.
BUMP
Thanks for the ping ... I suppose we should expect this sort of thing from San Fransicko. The good news here is that the Thomas More center has a pack of top-notch lawyers. This should be interesting.
FYI ping to both of your lists.
Even for the gay coast, this is a bit brazen. It is almost like they either
1. Want to start a fight.
2. Feel that they can say these things and will have no bad effects on them.
....and they did this in a city named "SAN FRANCISCO" no less, not Seattle, Atlanta, Denver or Miami.........
Ping!
"Oh, we'd have UTOPIA if it weren't for this evil Catholics!".
Huh?
Catholic Ping List
Please freepmail me if you want on/off this list
I'd like to see them pass a resolution condemning Muslim religious teaching. Talk about hypocrisy! San Francisco is rapidly becoming a hell-hole.
Feel that they can say these things and will have no bad effects on them.
Homosexuals own the court...havent you noticed?
Catholics are the Jews of the 21rst century. Wait.
"....and they did this in a city named "SAN FRANCISCO"
Good point. They'll have to pass a resolution changing the name of the city, because Saint Francis was one of those pig Catholics.
This case should bring in hundreds of millions of dollars in damages from the San Francisco city council.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.