The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington DC continues to show its true colors:
The Archdiocese of Washington has decided to drop its foster care program over a dispute on pending same-sex marriage law with the District of Columbia.
The decision, posted late yesterday on the archdiocese’ Web site, announced that the archdiocese had ceased its 80-year-old program Feb. 1, the day the city’ contract expired with Catholic Charities, the church’ social services arm.
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Catholic Charities, which runs more than 20 social service programs for the District, transferred its entire foster-care program — 43 children, 35 families and seven staff members — to another provider, the National Center for Children and Families.
Priorities! It’s amazing to me that the Catholic Church still laughably considers itself the one true church, because they don’t seem to know their Bibles very well at all! The Bible mentions same gender marriage exactly, um, zero times, and gay sex six times. Even then, the condemnations involve rape, coercion, domination, and tribal practices, so it’s not really “sexytime” they’re talking about anyway. But that same book has a whole buncha verses about caring for the downtrodden, with a particular emphasis on orphans.
But then again, I guess if the Catholic church can’t keep the kids under close priestly supervision, they’d rather not deal with them at all.
Can we finally stop pretending they’re a moral authority on any subject?
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Unlike fundamentalists who pretend to obey and respect the Bible, the Vatican openly considers itself its own authority, above that of the Bible whenever it deems appropriate.
Speaking as a disillusioned ex-Catholic, I believe the church leadership has suffered from millennia of smug self-isolation, interrupted occasionally by very brief periods of perestroika and glasnost. The decade immediately following Vatican II was one such period.
This brief exposure to reality triggers backlash among “conservatives” whose power is derived less from tradition or integrity, than from ignorance, obedience, politics, and cronyism.
The echo chamber doors slam shut, and the old circular logic and unaccountable corruption resume.
The church cares primarily about children that it can influence and make ignorant. That ignorance is required to accept the unethical and unhealthy practices and teachings of the clergy: Clergy who, as a condition for keeping their home and job, maintain the closed, unaccountable, corrupted system and the strict rules which lock that corruption in place.
Comment by Michael Airhart — February 18, 2010 @ 12:56 am
There is probably a cover up of sexual abuse from the DC Archidiocese of Washington that is going to come out from all of this eventually. Usually those that raise the most ruckus are the ones that are scurrying about, sweeping the most dirt under their rugs.
Comment by Don Craddock — February 18, 2010 @ 12:12 pm
So these Catholics think its more harmful to allow same sex couples to marry than it is to throw orphans into the street. I don’t think too many decent people are going to agree with that.
Comment by Priya Lynn — February 18, 2010 @ 2:35 pm
Oy vey, the Catholics. Victims once again, ha ha. They don’t seem to object to placing children with people who have divorced and remarried (that is, done TWO things that are biblically prohibited), nor with couples where the bride and groom weren’t virgins on their wedding night (that’s a no-no in the Bible). So why all the fuss about same-sex couples, married or not? Religions have really gone loco in this country.
Comment by JeffreyRO5 — February 18, 2010 @ 6:59 pm
http://www.uua.org
Comment by John Fisher — February 26, 2010 @ 7:22 pm
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Mr. Airhead illustrates quite well where he received his training when he mentions. “perestroika and glasnost”?……
Comment by pat — August 7, 2010 @ 7:03 am