GAY ADOPTION ISSUE SPURS BIGOTED FUROR

Catholic League ^ | March 15, 2006 | Bill Donohue

[NYer]

March 15, 2006

GAY ADOPTION ISSUE SPURS BIGOTED FUROR 

A Boston Globe editorial yesterday criticized Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney for endorsing a bill that would allow Catholic Charities to continue providing adoption services without servicing gay couples.  In a related development, San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom said he will not attend the installation ceremony of former San Francisco Archbishop William Levada as a cardinal because of the Vatican’s opposition to gay adoptions. 

 

Catholic League president Bill Donohue responded as follows:

 

“In perhaps the most anti-Catholic editorial we’ve seen in years by any major American newspaper, the Boston Globe erupted in a Catholic-bashing furor yesterday that will surely mar its reputation.  It wasn’t sufficient for the newspaper to simply criticize Governor Romney for seeking to exempt Catholic Charities from a state law on adoption services, it had to lecture him that he is ‘governor, not a Catholic bishop.’  Worse, after citing John F. Kennedy’s remarks on separation of church and state, the editorial accused Romney, a Mormon, of ‘accepting instructions on public policy from the pope.’  Their lame attempt to spin the issue will fool no one save those Boston Catholics whose anger over the sex abuse scandal has driven them off the deep end.  They are so full of rage they can’t even see straight anymore.

 

“Another city that is cracking up with Catholic-bashing furor is San Francisco.  It’s not the Catholics who have cracked up there—it’s those public officials who are so wedded to the radical gay agenda that they no longer know what the common good means.  When Pope John Paul II died, Mayor Newsom and the entire Board of Supervisors refused to attend a Mass presided over by Archbishop Levada, and now Newsom has decided not to travel to Rome for Levada’s installation because he thinks the Vatican’s opposition to gay adoption is ‘corrosive and divisive.’  He also blasted the Vatican for its ‘stale and questionable documents,’ as if his trendy and morally bankrupt positions should instruct the Vatican. 

 

“It’s open season on the Catholic Church.  The bullies need to be beaten back and branded as the bigots that they are.”

[Clint N. Suhks]

Gavin Newsom said he will not attend the installation ceremony

Who gives a crap?

[Logophile]

. . . editorial accused Romney, a Mormon, of ‘accepting instructions on public policy from the pope.’

I doubt that Romney has conferred with the Pope on this or any other policy issue.

However, speaking as a "Mormon" myself, I would much rather accept advice from the Pope than from the editorial staff of the Boston Globe

[Toby06]

So opposing sodomy is bigoted? Now there a bigoted headline.

[Thorin]

I don't always agree with Donahue, but he nails it here.

[Antoninus]

Gavin Newsom said he will not attend the installation ceremony.

Mayor Newsom's daemon was probably too afraid to go anywhere near Rome anyway.

[Publius6961]

GAY ADOPTION ISSUE SPURS BIGOTED FUROR

Can anyone guess why I refused to read further any part of this article?

[JohnnyZ]

Because you resemble that remark?

[JohnnyZ]

Just a guess........

[trisham]

However, speaking as a "Mormon" myself, I would much rather accept advice from the Pope than from the editorial staff of the Boston Globe

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LOL! As a Catholic, I'd rather accept advice from Romney than from some of the Catholics here in MA, particularly those at the Globe.

[trisham]

Can anyone guess why I refused to read further any part of this article?

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No. Care to tell us?

[son of caesar]

It would actually be more reasonable to take advice from a muslim imam than from any major editorial page in the USA.

[maryz]

From yesterday's Best of the Web Today:

Law Students Against Representation

It turns out the military isn't the only organization whose law school recruitment efforts activists have targeted. The Boston Globe reports:

When word spread at Harvard Law School last month that one of the most successful recruiters of its graduates, Ropes & Gray, was helping Catholic Charities explore ways to prevent same-sex couples from adopting children, gay and lesbian students wanted to stop the law firm it [sic] its tracks.

There were "people who were upset and people who were very upset," said Brad Rosen, a first-year student and board member of Lambda, the school's group for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender students.

A Lambda representative wound up meeting with Ropes's managing partner and others at the firm and expressing the students' unhappiness.

Two weeks ago, Ropes said it would no longer do legal work to assist the bishops in their efforts to stop gay adoptions, and last week Catholic Charities said it would end its adoption program because it could not reconcile church doctrine, which holds that gay adoptions are "gravely immoral," with state antidiscrimination laws

It's unclear what impact, if any, Harvard's students had in Ropes's decision, although they are among the country's most sought-after law graduates. .

It's one thing for Harvard to object when an organization discriminates in hiring, but the complaint about Ropes & Gray goes against one of the most basic premises of the law: that lawyers are not responsible for the actions of their clients, and that everyone is entitled to seek legal representation. Even if the Catholic Church is invidiously discriminating against gays, the law firm is no more responsible for this than a serial killer's lawyer is for the former's crimes.

I'm surprised no one else seems to have picked up on this. At least I haven't seen it reported elsewhere . . .

[Mrs. Darla Ruth Schwerin]

I saw this on FOX NEWS last night.
#1, the ACLU is behind the trouble and controversy being stirred up, when as usual, there is no reason for it all.

As Mitt Romney pointed out, REMEMBER THE SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE? Is not the state attempting to control what the church does and does not do? I mean, get real, it can't be both ways. Can't have your cake and eat it too! And besides, another Romney point is that the Catholic Church isn't the ONLY adoption place in Massachusettes. So, that's another, GET REAL, point. SO, GO FLY A KITE, ACLU...

[NYer]

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