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by Maureen Fiedler on Mar. 02, 2010
The law permitting same sex marriage goes into effect in the District of Columbia Wednesday, March 3. It prohibits any kind of discrimination against couples in a same sex union.
So, in advance of that, Catholic Charities of Washington, in order to avoid paying health care benefits to employees who may be in same sex unions, announced that it would no longer cover any spouse of an employee unless he or she is already enrolled in the health care plan. Employees got the news by e-mail March 1, and the policy is effective March 2.
The archdiocese could have done what the Archdiocese of San Francisco did years ago, namely, decided to cover “domestic partners” while expanding the definition of “domestic partner” to include a parent, sibling or someone else in a household. Instead, it eliminated benefits for all spouses.
Catholic social justice teaching has long advocated worker benefits such as health care. It is sad that this teaching was trumped in order to discriminate against a whole class of citizens. It is a decision the Archdiocese will someday come to regret.
No. This is the government's
No. This is the government's fault for not including religious exemptions. D.C. has alreay forced out several Catholic charities on the grounds of "inclusiveness." Poor people be damned, we will have faux equality!!
It is unfortunate when we are
It is unfortunate when we are made unable to do good by the mandate of the government to do evil.
Ms. Fiedler omitted an
Ms. Fiedler omitted an important piece of information. According to today's Washington Post, "Catholic Charities receives $22 million from the city for social service programs." If all Catholic Charities throughout the nation gave up their government contracts, grants and subsidies, there would be no questions regarding spousal health care benefits nor adoptions/foster care by same sex couples nor discrimination in hiring. However, the U.S. Catholic Church and all its myriad agencies want it both ways - tax-payer funding AND no restriction to their discriminatory human resources, social services and medical practices.
"hyp-o-crite...1: a person
"hyp-o-crite...1: a person who puts on a false appearance of virtue or religion...'
How do you say "cowards" in
How do you say "cowards" in Latin?
given in singular form, here
given in singular form, here are a few possibilities:
abiectus -a -um
ignavus -a -um
inaudax -acis
timeo -ere
debilis -e
deficio -ficere -feci -fectum
elumbis -e
enervis -e
flaccidus -a -um
imbecillus -a -um
perimbecillus -a -um
languidus -a -um
Latin was such a strong and precise language that our much devolved and crude tongue cannot come close to it, another reason to keep up with your Spanish reading. Perhaps you may discover lying here within this list "le mot juste" for your purpose, which I cannot now decipher.
It is pitiful that real
It is pitiful that real benefits to real spouses in real families have been lost the law would force a Catholic institution to violate its institutional conscience and cover ersatz "spouses" in imitation marriages. Again, the real coin is victimized while the counterfeit is given benefits...and the Church blamed. Another illustration of how the homosexual lobby will use the law and the social policy the law supports as a battering ram to force their acceptance of "same-sex marriage" (as real as four-sided triangles). What it also discloses is that the simplistic argument that marriage is about what the "spouses" think and not a broader social institution is again revealed to be what it is: a lie. Marriage is a social institution, and somebody's definition of that institution will be socially controlling.
P.S.: If Mr. McCrea is looking for cowards, he might start with the majority in the House and Senate, which could have used Congressional oversight authority to overturn the D.C. policy, but which failed to do so. But you won't need Latin for that group -- even pseudo-Catholics like Nancy Pelosi would probably be stumped.
Dear JMG, By what authority
Dear JMG,
By what authority and standards do you so freely toss about the calumnious term "pseudo-Catholic?"
frère charles du désert OSB, Catholic
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