I read it and still don’t understand what’s going on here.
Could you explain it a bit for me?
The Freedom of Choice Act can be summed up like this:
In the past, the government has allowed sinners to sin.
In the future, the government will force non-sinners to sin.
My best interpretation of this bill is that it would allow the liberal lay Catholics who support Obama and other liberal causes to have power in running Roman Catholic churches.
This power would be denied to Catholic clergy who believe in traditional values (anti-gay marriage, pro-life etc.) under the legislation.
Consider thst more and more traditonal values bishops and priests are standing up to oppose the anti-life and gay activist agendas. They are trying to discipline those in the church including politicians who are voting against chuch teaching.
This legislation is designed to attack traditional clergy by denying them administrative power in church affairs.
In the Catholic Church, basically, the Pope is in charge and he appoints the Bishops. Each Bishop is in charge of his Diocese and he appoints the Pastor to each Parish. The Pastor reports to the Bishop personally and is responsible for all aspects of running the Parish.
My reading of this bill is that the Holy Father and the Bishop and the Pastor are no longer in charge, they are replaced by a group of parishoners who are totally in charge of the Parish. Several leftist/liberal groups who claim to be part of the Church have been agitating for this for years. It would fit in nicely with their agenda.
This way of running a Church may be the way many Churches are run and it is fine for them if that is what they want to do. The problem, the ‘wrongness’ with this bill is that it COMPELLS the Catholic Church to be run that way. I am forced to conclude that their main reason (ignore the purpose stated at the end of the bill it is a smokescreen) that the legislators who introduced this bill did so is because don’t like the Catholic Church. I submit if this is such a noble idea why aren’t they submitting bills for the other Christian Churches or for Jewish Congreations?
Again, if they can do this to the Catholic Church they can do this to any Church. If this succeeds is a “Patriotic Catholic Church of Connecticut” run by the state just like they have in Communist China far behind?
This is not about FOCA (expanding abortion in all cases). This is about Catholic Bishops controlling the Catholic schools. This bill would strip them of this power in CT.
Private schools and home schooling are the 2 biggest threats to the forced indoctrination of our youth.
Bishops have been in the news a lot lately about stopping schools from honoring pro-abortion, pro-homosexual marriage, etc- speakers and politicians.
This bill will allow the local liberal Catholics to do as they please without direction from the Bishops.