San Fran Catholic attack results in lawsuit

[Soldier4Christ]

Church's morals called 'insulting,' 'hateful,' 'defamatory,' 'insensitive,' 'ignorant'


A stridently anti-Catholic resolution passed unanimously by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors has prompted a federal lawsuit.

In the March 21 measure, the city's board condemned Catholic moral teaching on homosexuality and urged the archbishop of San Francisco and Catholic Charities of San Francisco to defy church directives prohibiting homosexual adoptions.

The resolution alludes to the Vatican as a foreign country meddling in the affairs of the city and describes the church's moral teaching and beliefs as "insulting to all San Franciscans," "hateful," "insulting and callous," "defamatory," "absolutely unacceptable," "insensitive and ignorant."

The resolution calls on the local archbishop to "defy" the church's teachings and describes Cardinal William Joseph Levada, the head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which is responsible for safeguarding the doctrine on the faith and morals of the church throughout the Catholic world, as "unqualified" to lead.

The Michigan-based Thomas More Law Center brought the lawsuit on behalf of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights and two San Francisco Catholic citizens.

They are challenging the resolution as a "startling attack by government officials on the Catholic Church, Catholic moral teaching and beliefs, and those who adhere to the tenets of the Catholic faith, in violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution."

Richard Thompson, president and chief counsel of the Thomas More Law Center, said the "demagoguery and virulent words of this resolution are reminiscent of the anti- Catholic bigotry of the Ku Klux Klan and the Know Nothings, which marred our nation's earlier history."

"San Francisco may as well have put up signs at the city limits: 'Faithful Catholics Not Welcomed," he said.

Thompson pointed out Catholic doctrine proclaims allowing children to be adopted by homosexuals would actually mean doing violence to them because their condition of dependency would be used to place them in an environment not conducive to their full human development.

Such policies, therefore, are considered gravely immoral by Catholics.

The lawsuit claims that the First Amendment "forbids an official purpose to disapprove of a particular religion, religious beliefs, or of religion in general."

It also states this "anti-Catholic resolution sends a clear message to plaintiffs and others who are faithful adherents to the Catholic faith that they are outsiders, not full members of the political community and an accompanying message that those who oppose Catholic religious beliefs, particularly with regard to homosexual unions and adoptions by homosexual partners, are insiders, favored members of the political community."

Robert Muise, the Law Center attorney handling the case, argued the Constitution "forbids hostility toward any religion."

"In total disregard for the Constitution, homosexual activists in positions of authority in San Francisco are abusing their authority as government officials and misusing the instruments of government to attack the Catholic Church," he said. "This egregious abuse of power is an outrage and a clear violation of the First Amendment."

[JudgeNot]

There is a church in San Francisco called Glide Memorial. Glide is the local media’s choice as ‘voice’ of City ‘Protestants’. It is supposed to be (once was) a Methodist church. When Cecil Williams took over as pastor, his first act was to have the big wooden cross removed from the wall from behind the pulpit. It seems it was too exclusive. If you go to their website (http://www.glide.org) you will not find the words “God” or “Jesus”.

Glide is THE example of how The City government (politics) reshaped a church into the Progressive Religion. Glide worships The City’s mandated brand of diversity – not God. The City Government played the starring roll in the death of Christianity at Glide Memorial Church. It was clearly, without a doubt, the government establishing religion.

Now, for some reason, they think they can do the same with the Catholic Church? It is amazing these folks believe they are so all-powerful. How arrogant can silly liberals get?

One thing is for sure – they will eventually learn the truth.

[Soldier4Christ]

One thing is for sure – they will eventually learn the truth.

Amen, brother. San Francisco has become a modern day Sodom and Gomorrah and they will indeed see the truth in the end.

[Shammu]

Amen, brother. San Francisco has become a modern day Sodom and Gomorrah and they will indeed see the truth in the end.

AMEN brother!

I myself think homosexuality, is  'insulting,' 'hateful,' 'defamatory,' 'insensitive,' 'ignorant' to Gods Word! The Bible even says so.

Deuteronomy 22:5 The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.

Leviticus 18:22 You shall not lie with a man as with a woman; it is an abomination.

Leviticus 20:13 If a man lies with a male as if he were a woman, both men have committed an offense (something perverse, unnatural, abhorrent, and detestable); they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

1 Corinthians 6:9 Do you not know that the unrighteous and the wrongdoers will not inherit or have any share in the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived (misled): neither the impure and immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor those who participate in homosexuality,

Genesis 13:13 But the men of Sodom were wicked and exceedingly great sinners against the Lord.

Genesis 18:20 And the Lord said, Because the shriek [of the sins] of Sodom and Gomorrah is great and their sin is exceedingly grievous,

2 Peter 2:6-9 And He condemned to ruin and extinction the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, reducing them to ashes [and thus] set them forth as an example to those who would be ungodly;   7 And He rescued righteous Lot, greatly worn out and distressed by the wanton ways of the ungodly and lawless--  8 For that just man, living [there] among them, tortured his righteous soul every day with what he saw and heard of [their] unlawful and wicked deeds--  9 Now if [all these things are true, then be sure] the Lord knows how to rescue the godly out of temptations and trials, and how to keep the ungodly under chastisement until the day of judgment and doom,

Jude 1:7-10 [The wicked are sentenced to suffer] just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the adjacent towns--which likewise gave themselves over to impurity and indulged in unnatural vice and sensual perversity--are laid out [in plain sight] as an exhibit of perpetual punishment [to warn] of everlasting fire.  8 Nevertheless in like manner, these dreamers also corrupt the body, scorn and reject authority and government, and revile and libel and scoff at [heavenly] glories (the glorious ones).  9 But when [even] the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, judicially argued (disputed) about the body of Moses, he dared not [presume to] bring an abusive condemnation against him, but [simply] said, The Lord rebuke you!  10 But these men revile (scoff and sneer at) anything they do not happen to be acquainted with and do not understand; and whatever they do understand physically [that which they know by mere instinct], like irrational beasts--by these they corrupt themselves and are destroyed (perish).