Posted on 08/16/2023 9:32:11 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
When I first moved to Massachusetts in 1969 from Protestant-dominated Minnesota, I was struck by the awesome power the Catholic church wielded there. Reverent media attention was afforded the Cardinal, the legendary Richard Cardinal Cushing, who died in 1970 and was replaced by Humberto Cardinal Medeiros. The funeral and selection of a replacement was a major media event in the Boston area. I had never seen the like of it in the Great Plains. There was more than a tinge of class resentment against the formerly dominant Yankees, who were Protestants.
Things have changed in 2023, and it appears that in place of the Roman Catholic faith, a different religion has achieved dominance: the creed of LGBTQWERTY. The formerly reigning Catholic faith is now considered anathema by at least some official state agencies. How else to understand this from the Wall Street Journal?
The Massachusetts Department of Children and Families’s decision to deny Michael and Kitty Burke’s foster-care application comes less than a decade after the Supreme Court’s 2015 ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, which held that states could not deny marriage licenses to same-sex couples. In a short but tart dissent, Justice Alito raised a red flag that Justice Anthony Kennedy, author of the majority opinion, glided over in his enthusiasm for making his own preferences law. Whatever this decision was, Justice Alito warned, Obergefell was not a victory for a live-and-let-live America.
“It will be used to vilify Americans who are unwilling to assent to the new orthodoxy,” he wrote. “In the course of its opinion, the majority compares traditional marriage laws to laws that denied equal treatment for African-Americans and women. . . . The implications of this analogy will be exploited by those who are determined to stamp out every vestige of dissent.”
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The Burkes were willing to accept children of any race, culture or ethnicity, as well as some special needs. They would even take siblings. The state, in its assessment of the Burkes, acknowledged the family’s “strengths.” In the license study describing the family, the Massachusetts DCF noted that “Kitty and Mike are devoutly Roman Catholic and not only attend church with regular frequency, they both also work for local churches as musicians.”
Once upon a time that would be an endorsement. Today it’s an indictment. The Burkes were found unfit to be trusted with a child.
bkmk for later
They need to go to China and adopt a girl.
Or go to eastern Europe and adopt.
Friends of ours, who are also Catholic adopted two girls from China. This was after they had four boys of their own.
Big time violation of first amendment rights.
Most prospective foster parents don’t have the money to do that. Not even close.
supreme court time!
Most prospective foster parents don’t have the money to do that. Not even close.
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My wife and I adopted two children (siblings) in what started out as an uncontested adoption , a relatively inexpensive process but it turned out to be contested, a very expensive process. We were very happy with the end results. I would not have been able to go to China to adopt.
I believe you are right, most potential adopters simply cannot afford it.
My insurance provided by my employer at the time would have paid fully for an uncontested adoption but paid zero for a contested one.
By the way, I just clicked on your screen name to see what state you’re from and got the following:
“This site contains deceptive content
Web Shield has detected a variety of phishing items on ageofmary.com that might attempt to trick you into installing harmful software on your computer and revealing your sensitive personal information, such as passwords, bank account information, etc.”
Very little support for these deserving Catholics at Proto dominated Free Republic.
Sad.
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