Catholic Charities to stop all adoptions

Domenico said allowing gay adoption is participating in evil? That's just off the wall. Flat-out insane. Evil is killing people. Evil is rape. Or, come to think of it, child molestation. Or even lying to cover-up child molestation. Gay adoption isn't evil.

Even if you oppose it, calling it evil betrays your insanity, Dom.

This is where my Catholic faith and the Catholic church diverge. For years I haven't been able to reconcile the teaching I learned from CCD teachers who explained that (the Catholic) God loves everyone equally, without retribution and what the church is espousing today. Now there is a march to protect "all that is is holy" from "those" sinning gays. Ptoooooooooey! Look, the church can tell its faithful what is the right way to live. It's the same for Orthodox Jews who keep two kitchens and walk to temple on Saturdays. It is part of the dogma, no matter how ugly it may be. And what is a religious tenet is unique to that religion. If the Catholic Church thinks gays and lesbians are sinners, fine.

Far be it from me to impune a certain practice within a ceremony, sacrament or rite. But adoption isn't a religious rite. Adoption is a secular family matter. The state is right not to exempt Catholic Charities for its religious dogma as it relates to a secular operation. What's next? Will Catholic schools disenroll children of same-sex couples? Will Catholic hospitals turn away sick gay and lesbian people? Not birth babies of same-sex couples?

Will Catholic hospitals then also deny medical care to divorced people, as it supposedly does the Eucharist? Will it turn away unwed mothers in active labor because she conceived their child in "sin?" Will the schools do the same, and expel its pregnant students and the students of divorced parents?

I can't see ardently and actively sidelining gay and lesbian couples under the guise of church teachings without also doing the same for anyone who is divorced or never married. Because as far as I have been taught, unless a marriage is annulled by the Pope a divorce is a civil matter; and any "relations" after the divorce but before an aullment are extra-marital in the church's eyes and therefore in violation of a commandment.

So, if the Boston Archdiocese, and the greater Catholic Church, is so concerned about adhering to church doctrine vis a vis same-sex couples, it should apply all its doctrines equaly lest it be considered a hypocrite. And as the Bible teaches: Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.