Catholic Charities to halt adoptions over issue involving gays

By Associated Press  |  March 10, 2006

BOSTON (AP) -- The Boston Archdiocese's Catholic Charities said Friday it would stop providing adoption services because state law requires them to consider gays and lesbians as parents.

The social services arm of the Roman Catholic archdiocese has provided adoption services for about a century. But it says state law allowing gays to adopt runs counter to church teachers on homosexuality.

"The world was very different when Charities began this ministry at the threshold of the twentieth-century," the Rev. J. Bryan Hehir and trustees chairman Jeffrey Kaneb said in a joint statement. "The world changed often and we adapted the ministry to meet changing times and needs. At all times we sought to place the welfare of children at the heart of our work.

"But now, we have encountered a dilemma we cannot resolve," they said.

The state's four Catholic bishops said earlier this month that the law threatens the church's religious freedom by forcing it to do something it considers immoral.

Maybe this story will help put the lie to the often heard refrain from my liberal activist listeners of "Please, will you Christians stop jamming your morality down on our lives and just leave us alone!" 

Let me speak for the children and say, "Choose your perversion for yourselves, but don't make us have to choose between having a home and being surrounded by confusing, life shaping gender madness. You CHOSE to adopt homosexuality. We couldn't choose to become orphans."

Another victory of rights for the emerging gay "superclass", at the expense of "the least of these".

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