Catholic Church- “We either get to hate the gays or kill the homeless. Your call!”

This is what the Pope reminds me of. He wants his precious back!

Catholics, you never cease to amaze me. Now, before some of you go on about how you don’t agree with many of the churches standards, but still consider yourself a Catholic… well you are just as bad. It would be the same thing if I joined the KKK and contributed to the cause, went to the meetings, but openly told my friends that I felt lynching was archaic and tacky. You support it, you are responsible for it’s practices. The same thing goes to you gay Mormons. Yes, there are several of you that I am looking at. (point point)

Finger pointing aside.

The Catholic Church of D.C. has stated that if the same sex marriage bill is passed, they will no longer be able to keep their contracts with the city, effectively terminating their social services work. In a stunning upset, from a usually compassionate and logical… oh no wait. I was thinking about that Yo Gabba Gabba show.

So, if I gather this correctly, the church is planning on punishing thousands of innocent and destitute people because the queerosexuals may be getting married? Well as long as we don’t forget the teachings of Jesus Christ.

Under the bill, headed for a D.C. Council vote next month, religious organizations would not be required to perform or make space available for same-sex weddings. But they would have to obey city laws prohibiting discrimination against gay men and lesbians.

Fearful that they could be forced, among other things, to extend employee benefits to same-sex married couples, church officials said they would have no choice but to abandon their contracts with the city.

“If the city requires this, we can’t do it,” Susan Gibbs, spokeswoman for the archdiocese, said Wednesday. “The city is saying in order to provide social services, you need to be secular. For us, that’s really a problem.”

Several D.C. Council members said the Catholic Church is trying to erode the city’s long-standing laws protecting gay men and lesbians from discrimination.

I honestly don’t have much to say on this subject at the moment, but for those of you who may be curious as to why I despise religion, take note.

“Lets say an individual caterer is a staunch Christian and someone wants him to do a cake with two grooms on top,” said council member Yvette M. Alexander (D-Ward 6), the sponsor of the amendment. “Why can’t they say, based on their religious beliefs, ‘I can’t do something like that’?”

After the vote, the archdiocese sent out a statement accusing the council of ignoring the right of religious freedom. Gibbs said Wednesday that without Alexander’s amendment and other proposed changes, the measure has too narrow an exemption. She said religious groups that receive city funds would be required to give same-sex couples medical benefits, open adoptions to same-sex couples and rent a church hall to a support group for lesbian couples.

Peter Rosenstein of the Campaign for All D.C. Families accused the church of trying to “blackmail the city.”

“The issue here is they are using public funds, and to allow people to discriminate with public money is unacceptable,” Rosenstein said.

Rosenstein and other gay rights activists have strong support on the council. Council member Phil Mendelson (D-At Large), chairman of the judiciary committee, said the council “will not legislate based on threats.”

“The problem with the individual exemption is anybody could discriminate based on their assertion of religious principle,” Mendelson said. “There were many people back in the 1950s and ’60s, during the civil rights era, that said separation of the races was ordained by God.”

Catania, who said he has been the biggest supporter of Catholic Charities on the council, said he is baffled by the church’s stance. From 2006 through 2008, Catania said, Catholic Charities received about $8.2 million in city contracts, as well as several hundred thousand dollars’ worth this year through his committee.

“If they find living under our laws so oppressive that they can no longer take city resources, the city will have to find an alternative partner to step in to fill the shoes,” Catania said. He also said Catholic Charities was involved in only six of the 102 city-sponsored adoptions last year.

Terry Lynch, head of the Downtown Cluster of Congregations, said he did not know of any other group in the city that was making such a threat.

Read the entire article at The Washington Post

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