Requirement To Consider Gay Couples for Adoption Forces Illinois Catholic Charities Affiliates To Close

NYTimes.com:

Roman Catholic bishops in Illinois have shuttered most of the Catholic Charities affiliates in the state rather than comply with a new requirement that says they must consider same-sex couples as potential foster-care and adoptive parents if they want to receive state money. The charities have served for more than 40 years as a major link in the state’s social service network for poor and neglected children.


The bishops have followed colleagues in Washington, D.C., and Massachusetts who had jettisoned their adoption services rather than comply with nondiscrimination laws.


For the nation’s Catholic bishops, the Illinois requirement is a prime example of what they see as an escalating campaign by the government to trample on their religious freedom while expanding the rights of gay people. The idea that religious Americans are the victims of government-backed persecution is now a frequent theme not just for Catholic bishops, but also for Republican presidential candidates and conservative evangelicals.


“In the name of tolerance, we’re not being tolerated,” said Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki of the Diocese of Springfield, Ill., a civil and canon lawyer who helped drive the church’s losing battle to retain its state contracts for foster care and adoption services.

Once again, the "rights" of those who engage in an immoral sexual choice trumps those seriously in need of a home.

Charles Krauthammer: ‘Ridiculous’ GOP Congress And ‘Embarrassing’ Candidates Are Handing Obama A Victory

Mediaite.com:

President Obama’s consistent lead over most Republican contenders has taken some on the right by surprise, given his low approval ratings and the bad economy the administration can’t seem to shake. To Charles Krauthammer, none of the credit should go to President Obama, however, but to the “embarrassing” Republican candidates and the “ridiculous” behavior of the Congressional Republican leadership.


Krauthammer explained during Special Report today that President Obama has mostly been a “passive observer” to a landscape that has been remarkably favorable to him and his administration despite the bad times domestically. Krauthammer attributed the “ridiculous way the Republicans have conducted themselves in Congress” for “making Obama look like at least a grown-up,” while Republicans have had “an almost year-long exposure to a weak Republican field.” “The fact that Santorum is the last standing alternative,” he explained, “think of how this is going: Trump, Bachmann, Perry, then Cain, then Newt– who’s really in decline now– Ron Paul, who is on the ascent but not electable, then Santorum.”


Concluding that “Every alternative is going to get a try,” Krauthammer highlighted how the weak field made a difference by arguing, “imagine a race with a Mitch Daniels, Paul Ryan, Christie, Thune… it would’ve had a completely different complexion” instead of having “embarrassing candidates like Cain and others.”

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The truth hurts.

Chicago Cardinal Francis George Draws Criticism After Comparing Gay Rights Movement to Ku Klux Klan

This shouldn't even be news. But of course any statement made by a public VIP that goes against the repulsive and Godless liberal-pro-gay agenda will make for boldface headlines in the liberal press. A Catholic priest daring to equate an immoral, unnatural behavioral choice to the KKK?!? Surely you jest:

Chicago Cardinal Francis George is drawing criticism after comparing the gay rights movement to the Ku Klux Klan.


George was asked during an interview on WFLD-TV what he thought about a local priest's concerns that the city's annual gay pride parade might interrupt morning Mass at his church.


George replied that he was concerned the gay rights movement might "morph into something like the Ku Klux Klan, demonstrating in the streets against Catholicism."


He says the rhetoric of the KKK and some in the gay rights movement involving the Catholic Church was similar.


On Thursday, a coalition of Catholic groups that work for LGBT rights called George's comments "crude" and "demagogic."


Organizers of the June parade agreed Wednesday to start later to avoid disrupting church services.

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