Posted on 03/15/2014 3:55:55 PM PDT by marshmallow
The attorney general of Massachusetts has filed an amicus brief in support of a discrimination lawsuit brought against the Worcester diocese by a homosexual couple.
The couple had sought to purchase an estate—formerly a retreat center—which the diocese was selling. After reaching an initial agreement, the diocese pulled out of negotiations. Accidentally, a diocesan official sent the couple a copy of an email message saying that the sale should not be completed because the couple might host gay marriages at the site.
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“Accidentally” my foot. Somebody on the diocesan staff is clearly wanting to get his boyfriend on the diocesan health plan.
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I can refuse to sell my property for any reason whatsoever.
Sounds like sour grapes.
In the USA of 2014, I believe that is quite far from the truth.
This is the infamous Martha Coakley who is now a candidate for Governor.
The only way to keep ..... whatever ... out or away from you and your sale or rental is to not publically advertise
The sodomites have been waiting for a situation like this to bring a suit that they will take to SCOTUS.
I smell a big rat here. Note the diocese was clear that the potential buyers had failed to secure financing. That is a clear and objective standard and indicates to me that the purchasers were not acting in good faith.
An analogy is of a black man who goes to a car dealership and wants to buy a car. No problem, says the dealership, how would you like to pay for it? I’ll get a loan from the bank, says the man.
But then, because he is a credit risk, the bank turns him down. But he wants the car anyway, so wants the dealership to give it to him. No way, says the dealership.
You are racists, says the man.
In this case, I suspect that the potential buyers just wanted the land long enough to conduct a profane ritual on it, but had no real intention to buy it.
If this is the case, the sick intent is like trying to steal communion wafers and sacramental wine to use them for unholy purposes. They want to marry homosexuals at the retreat so they could lie and say they were married on Catholic property, which would be accurate if the sale was a fraud and title was never transferred from the church.
I don’t think you can in MA. You have to entertain each offer as they come. They have a ton of “equal protection” clauses.
The Church ain’t gonna win this one.
Someone had an agenda.
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