DC Archdiocese Halts Spousal Benefits to Avoid Gay Activist Lawsuits
Starting today, Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Washington will no longer extend health benefits to spouses of new employees and to spouses of current employees not already receiving these benefits.
Catholic League president Bill Donohue supports this decision.
This decision by the Washington Archdiocese was driven by the marriage inequity activists who will brook no dissent in their crusade to ram their gay-marriage agenda down the throats of the faithful. They know full well that no Catholic entity is about to prostitute its own teachings merely to do business with the government. Unfortunately, that is exactly what is at stake: Catholic Charities had to halt spousal health benefits lest it be sued for discriminating against homosexuals who will shortly claim to be married in the District.
Nature, not the Catholic Church, was the first to ordain that it is biologically incongruous for a man and a man to conceive a child. That ability is wholly the reserve of a man and a woman, and no amount of social and legal fictions can alter it. This issue isn’t about equality, it is about creating an inequitable condition—allowing people of the same sex the same rights afforded men and women—that will only disable the institution of marriage in the long run. Which is why it must be resisted.
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The Washington Diocese would rather deny benefits to all spouses rather than risk one of those spouses being of the same sex as the employee. Yet another petty, retrograde, discriminatory, vindictive and unjust action from an organisation that claims to be concerned with the betterment of society . Still it'll save the church some money too, no doubt!
On a more encouraging note, by describing gay marriage advocates as ' marriage inequity activists' Mr Donohue at lasts acknowledges that an inequity exists. Thank you Mr Donohue for this about face.
"This issue isn't about equality, it's about... allowing people of the same sex THE SAME RIGHTS afforded men and women ." (emphasis added) I rest my case.
That being said, the Church should not be forced to acknowledge those marriages or pay spousal support to those in gay marriages, or those in second marriages, for that matter, since the Church doesn't recognize those, either.
The biased author is clearly mssiing a big point. The Catholic diocese has had no problem with adopting to people who have been divorced or providing spousal benefits to partners in second marriages for decades.
Divorce is a much graver sin in the bible , mentioned many more times than the two or three times mentioning gays in the NT.
This proves that the diocese is driven by hatred toward gays-why else the hypocrisy?
Fortunately, God is guidng this country toward equality.
If the Catholics choose to abandon God's neediest in lieue of their own animus toward gays, they will surely fall.
Praise God for equality for all!
Why must the Catholic Church punish those who are already employed by them? Gays would certainly not work for the church 's establishments where they would be discriminated against, condemned, and crucified, so why worry about the law . Perhaps it is just a guise for not having to pay benefits to those you employ, to save money . It must surely cost a lot to run the beautiful Vatican city. Perhaps rather than push people (Gays, family and friends of Gays) away from Christ, they should be working on bringing them closer.
I was born Gay, went to Catholic school , and hated myself most of my life for being so different. My life was miserable, trying to be something "others" wanted me to be. In 1988, I accepted myself as the Gay man God created me to be, and my life completely changed. I am now blessed with constant miracles, have a wonderful relationship with an exceptional man, and have Christ in my soul! It hurts me when people say such hurtful mean things about Gays...about me...and they have never met me. I put it into God's hands. What one sows, so shall they reap! I pray deeply, that those who discriminate and judge will see clearly, why they are reaping what they presently are. Steve Leong