Posted: 4/24/2006 10:48:12 AM EDT
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(enter your email address below) Defending the Religious Freedom of Christians Restoring Time Honored Family Values Protecting the Sanctity of Human Life How can I help? Sign up as a Pro-Bono Attorney Refer a case Make TMLC your homepage Search San Francisco's Hateful Anti-Catholic Resolution Prompts Lawsuit Tue, Apr 4, 2006 Related Stories Printer-Friendly ANN ARBOR, MI – A virulently anti-Catholic resolution unanimously passed by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors condemning Catholic moral teaching on homosexuality and urging the Archbishop of San Francisco and Catholic Charities of San Francisco to defy Church directives prohibiting gay adoptions has prompted a federal lawsuit by the Thomas More Law Center, a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The lawsuit, brought on behalf of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights and two San Francisco Catholic citizens, challenges the anti-Catholic resolution as a “startling attack by government officials on the Catholic Church, Catholic moral teaching and beliefs, and those who adhere to the tenets of the Catholic faith, in violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution.” The March 21, 2006 resolution alludes to the Vatican as a foreign country meddling in the affairs of the City and describes the Church’s moral teaching and beliefs as “insulting to all San Franciscans,” “hateful,” “insulting and callous,” “defamatory,” “absolutely unacceptable,” “insensitive[] and ignoran[t].” The resolution calls on the local Archbishop to “defy” the Church’s teachings and describes Cardinal William Joseph Levada, the head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which is responsible for safeguarding the doctrine on the faith and morals of the Church throughout the Catholic world, as “unqualified” to lead. According to Richard Thompson, President and Chief Counsel of the Thomas More Law Center, “The demagoguery and virulent words of this resolution are reminiscent of the anti- Catholic bigotry of the Ku Klux Klan and the Know Nothings, which marred our Nation’s earlier history. San Francisco may as well have put up signs at the City limits: ‘Faithful Catholics Not Welcomed.” Catholic doctrine proclaims that allowing children to be adopted by homosexuals would actually mean doing violence to these children, in the sense that their condition of dependency would be used to place them in an environment that is not conducive to their full human development. Therefore, such policies are gravely immoral and Catholic organizations must not place children for adoption in homosexual households. The lawsuit claims that the First Amendment “forbids an official purpose to disapprove of a particular religion, religious beliefs, or of religion in general.” The lawsuit states that this “anti-Catholic resolution sends a clear message to Plaintiffs and others who are faithful adherents to the Catholic faith that they are outsiders, not full members of the political community and an accompanying message that those who oppose Catholic religious beliefs, particularly with regard to homosexual unions and adoptions by homosexual partners, are insiders, favored members of the political community.” Robert Muise, the Law Center attorney handling this matter, commented, “Our constitution forbids hostility toward any religion. In total disregard for the Constitution, homosexual activists in positions of authority in San Francisco are abusing their authority as government officials and misusing the instruments of government to attack the Catholic Church. This egregious abuse of power is an outrage and a clear violation of the First Amendment.” Thomas More Law Center 24 Frank Lloyd Wright Drive P.O. Box 393 Ann Arbor, MI 48106 Ph. (734) 827-2001 Fax (734) 930-7160 © 2005, Thomas More Law Center home | about us | resources | issues | newsroom | donate | contact us |
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Not suprising, as San Fransisco's city council is hostile to anyone who has religious beliefs that don't agree with their PC notions. I doubt a court will do anything about this, as a resolution doesn't actually damage anyone's religious freedoms. All it does is show them to be real asshats... |
You couldn't trim the start of the story? I don’t know how many times I’ve seen the word Advertisement because somebody was too lazy to edit the article. And you could have trimmed abut six inches off the start by deleting
and the rest of the irrelevant material. It's a good article, but all that wasted space makes me think less of you than had you done a little editing. |
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Yet, as everyone now knows, over 90% of the cases of sexual abuse in the Church was committed by homosexuals against young boys. But that will not stop them from attempting to place children in harms way by placing them with sodomites. Even the safety and innocence of children is worth sacrificing upon the altar of the homosexual agenda. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_pederastic_couples Notice the age of the children, 14, 15, 13, 12, and even 10 year old boys. So, homosexual sodomites using government to gain access to young boys, Mexico turning the entire south-west into third world shit hole, and the President I voted for actually spending money faster than it is being printed. Excuse me if Iran does not presently register all that high on my give-a-crap-ometer. |
Pssst: Ya see, a neutron bomb IS a nuclear bomb. Get it?  It just happens to leave most of the buildings intact, killing the people with the neutrons from the nuclei of the atoms involved, rather than with blast.We now return you to your regular loony-left thread. Edited to delete the word "Kid" as it might not be seen as tongue in cheek as originally thought... 
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You are right..it was not tongue in cheek..I have had the unfortunte experiance of going to CA, worst trip ever. That state has ZERO redeming qualities...get those out that are worth saving, if there are any, and the nuke the rest. All of it. Let the USAF use the entire state for a bombing range.. My own worthless brother and sister-in-law live in Huntington Beach and I still would like to see CA slide into the sea.. |
| CA has some of the most beautiful scenery in the US. I've been to SF twice and to SD once. That's it. But it's beautiful. It's also INSANE. Way too many people there. I HATE the political climate there. In general, I despise CA. But it can be a very nice place to visit. I put a lot of miles on my sneakers walking around the Bay area and enjoyed almost every minute of it. Nevertheless, one of these days the terrorists may make good on their threat to hit SF hard. I have mixed feelings about that. On the one hand, I'm an American and nobody messes with my fellow Americans! On the other hand, good riddance to the center of liberal BS and if any of the worthless scum survives, maybe they'll be in the mood to use their long-lost brains. But I doubt it... |
Don't murder, or steal, or commit adultery or homosexual sodomy, don't lie or cheat, or bear false witness, don't do unto others as you would not have done unto yourself. Feed the hungry, defend the weak, etc, etc... You mean that message? |