SAN FRANCISCO: Levada gift's city seal upsets supervisors

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 3/29/6 | Charlie Goodyear

[SmithL]

Some see breach in light of cardinal's gay adoption stance -

When San Francisco's Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a resolution last week condemning the city's former archbishop, now Cardinal William Levada, for a church policy barring adoptions by same-sex couples, the action drew widespread media attention.

But the news didn't change plans for an official city delegation that traveled to the Vatican for Levada's installation as cardinal and presented him Friday with a glass paperweight etched with the official seal of the city.

Now Supervisor Tom Ammiano, a gay Catholic who sponsored the Levada resolution, and other supervisors are wondering how such an apparent contravention of city policy could have occurred and whether any rules governing San Francisco's seal were broken.

"I think it is a significant breach," Ammiano said Tuesday. "You can't be cavalier about things like that."

Of the delegation, headed by Police Commissioner Joe Veronese, Ammiano said, "They must have heard of this little brouhaha. It made international news."

Veronese was in Italy on Tuesday and did not respond to messages left on his cell phone, at his office or via e-mail. But his mother, Angela Alioto, herself a former Board of Supervisors president who was deeply involved in planning the Vatican visit, said supervisors erred in condemning Levada.

[SmithL]

SF's Politburo has its collective panties in a bunch.

[Salvation]

**"I think it is a significant breach," Ammiano said Tuesday. "You can't be cavalier about things like that." **

I wonder if he will be 'cavalier' when he stands in front of God for his particular judgment. <sarcasm off

[vox_freedom]

I wonder if he will be 'cavalier' when he stands in front of God for his particular judgment. //sarcasm off

lol.
He'll probably be standing with his hands out in front of him, instead of being on his knees or prostrate and begging for mercy...

[A.A. Cunningham]

a gay Catholic

oxymoron

[pravknight]

Kind of like a drunk Catholic, or an adulterous Catholic, or a kleptomaniac Catholic.

[Antoninus]

Now Supervisor Tom Ammiano, a gay Catholic apostate Catholic who sponsored the Levada resolution...

There, much better.

[TaxachusettsMan]

I just sent SUPERVISOR TOM an email:

NEWS FLASH, Mr. Supervisor:

IT'S NOT ALL ABOUT YOU, SWEETHEART!

Nobody cares where your Mayor goes or doesn't go, what you or any "San Francisco Supervisor" thinks about ANYTHING,

and certainly no Cardinal of the Catholic Church cares about your paperweight!

"Supervisors" - you're all a Platoon of Princesses.

GET OVER YOURSELVES!

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Because it's Lent, I withstood the temptation to tell him what to do with the paperweight and also speculation as to how easily that could probably be done.