Posted on 03/16/2006 8:37:53 AM PST by serendipity_kate
Please excuse the two typos in the last reply (hundreds and chastise). I was typing too quickly for my own good...
However, I will post this link here to a list of what Catholic Charities USA describes as their "Legislative Priorities" . . . all of which involve lobbying government on behalf of various left-wing causes that have absolutely nothing to do with charity in any Christian sense.
Just read through that list (I've highlighted some of the real winners) . . . "Support full funding for the Section 8, Section 202, and other affordable housing programs," "Preserve the targeting of Section 8 vouchers to extremely low-income households," "Support increased funding for McKinney homeless assistance programs," "Support improvements in the TANF program to reduce child poverty; improve employability of recipients; ensure quality, affordable child care; provide adequate income for families; and support marriage and family life," "Support immigration reforms to help undocumented workers to adjust to legal status," "Support restoration of federal benefits to legal immigrants," "Support access to higher education to children of undocumented immigrants," "Promote just and fair budget and tax policies to provide adequate resources for federal investments in housing, health care, and social services for lower-income households, "Protect and expand the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and other tax policies that benefit low-income households," "Preserve the Medicaid entitlement and benefits for low-income individuals," "Support increased access to affordable health insurance coverage for the uninsured and underinsured," "Support legislation to facilitate enrollment of children in Medicaid and SCHIP," "Support and preserve funding for food stamps and child nutrition programs," "Support labor law, wage and hour reforms and better enforcement of current laws for agricultural workers," "Support reforms of laws regarding child agricultural workers," "Support legislation to remove barriers that prevent former prisoners from accessing housing, employment, educational and job training, and services needed to successfully reenter society," "Support improvements to and reauthorization of the Head Start Program," "Support incentives to states to improve quality of subsidized child care," "Support increased access to child care for children whose parents work non-traditional hours," etc.
With all due respect, this is not a charitable organization . . . it is a den of Marxism that has no business using the word "Catholic" in its name.
I think that a lot of the ensuing discussion has been a bit off topic. The bottom line is that Catholic Charities should not be forced to place children with homosexual couples. What is of priority are the children, and each adoption agency has its own methods by which is determines what home will be the best for a child. The government was saying that CC had to place children in homosexual arrangements, which a Catholic organization (no matter how nominally Catholic) should not be able to do, in "good conscience." Hence the shutdown. It's not discrimination for CC to make a principled case for not placing children with homosexual couples, because as the article points out, they were already referring same-sex couples interested in adoption to other agencies. Whether or not CC is a bona fide Catholic, "Rome is Home" organization is more of a moot point because the real issue is why should the government be FORCING them to give children to homosexual couples, SO LONG as the children were already getting placed? Isn't the point of the process that children get placed? As Jacoby points out, it's not about the adults, it's about the children. But somehow in all this uproar about whether or not CC is a "true" Catholic organization or not, we've lost the real tragedy of this - that there is one less organization in Boston that is working hard to provide children with what all children should have: a loving home and family that wants them.
It's a great article because it makes a great point: that in the name of "nondiscrimination" extremely intolerant views are being imposed on an organization.
Well said. And thanks for getting us back to the topic.
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