From the Washington Post:
The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington said Wednesday that it will be unable to continue the social service programs it runs for the District if the city doesn’t change a proposed same-sex marriage law, a threat that could affect tens of thousands of people the church helps with adoption, homelessness and health care.
Under the bill, headed for a D.C. Council vote next month, religious organizations would not be required to perform or make space available for same-sex weddings. But they would have to obey city laws prohibiting discrimination against gay men and lesbians.
Fearful that they could be forced, among other things, to extend employee benefits to same-sex married couples, church officials said they would have no choice but to abandon their contracts with the city.
“If the city requires this, we can’t do it,” Susan Gibbs, spokeswoman for the archdiocese, said Wednesday. “The city is saying in order to provide social services, you need to be secular. For us, that’s really a problem.”
Oh yeah, and the money that the church has been using to help the poor?
From 2006 through 2008, Catania said, Catholic Charities received about $8.2 million in city contracts, as well as several hundred thousand dollars’ worth this year through his committee.
“If they find living under our laws so oppressive that they can no longer take city resources, the city will have to find an alternative partner to step in to fill the shoes,” Catania said. He also said Catholic Charities was involved in only six of the 102 city-sponsored adoptions last year.
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19 Comments so far. Leave a comment below.First line “will be unable to continue.” Fuck off. They’re able, They just don’t want to. Say “doesn’t want to continue.” And then call them “dicks.”
Sounds like there’s a back-up plan if this church can’t be the middle man, which is good. Hope the city can act fast so the “tens of thousands” don’t struggle for too long.
How very Christian of them.
Somehow they skipped over “hating on Teh Ghey takes priority over everything” in my catechism.
So…in what way is this not attempted blackmail and/or extortion?
The Katholickass church….. the ENEMY of the HUMAN RACE! Fuck every one of them right up their Poop-shoots. They’re very familiar with that! The Miserable Mother-f–kers!
Someone tell those Child-raping mother-fuckers, we will no longer allow you to minister to us… And we want all of our money back!
The diocese position is shameful, but thankfully:
Getting the Catholic Church out of social services certainly would protect many children in DC from child molesting priests.
If I was President…. I’d drop my first Nuke on the Vatican.
Before you drop the nuke on the Vatican, rescue all the art and literature they’ve stolen and are keeping from the people. Then nuke ‘em. And the horse they rode in on. And Bill Donohue.
@ Robert Green
I’m Italian and I approve this,
just give me one day of time to save my girlfriend, who actually lives near Vatican’s walls,
then you can nuke Pope Nazinger and Berlusconi with anything you have ^w^
You’re Right Miss Poppy Hussein Dixon
We need to open the Vatican vaults and free the truth from their control.
They’ve got some balls. Fuck the church, leave’em in the dust
Bastards.
Every time a see a priest on the street, I greet him with, “Hi Ass-fucker!” Be smart people, cut off their funding, and the Bastards are finished! It is not a sin to tell them to go fuck themselves when they ask for money!
And that goes for all those PHONY TV Evangelists too!!!!
@Robert Green, Stephen, Valeria, peach, Miss Poppy Hussein Dixon, libhomo, jchack, damnedyankee, McGee, cicely, Justin, and all the rest of you self-loathing cretins: Thank God, you’re well on the way to self-elimination. Society will be better off when you and your ilk are gone.
@James T.
spoiler: God doesn’t exists,
but the good news is that you don’t need it/him/her