March 15, 2006

GAY ADOPTION ISSUE SPURS BIGOTED FUROR

A Boston Globe editorial yesterday criticized Massachusetts Governor
Mitt Romney for endorsing a bill that would allow Catholic Charities to
continue providing adoption services without servicing gay couples. In
a related development, San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom said he will
not attend the installation ceremony of former San Francisco Archbishop
William Levada as a cardinal because of the Vatican’s opposition to gay
adoptions.

Catholic League president Bill Donohue responded as follows:

“In perhaps the most anti-Catholic editorial we’ve seen in years by any
major American newspaper, the Boston Globe erupted in a Catholic-bashing
furor yesterday that will surely mar its reputation. It wasn’t sufficient for
the newspaper to simply criticize Governor Romney for seeking to exempt
Catholic Charities from a state law on adoption services, it had to lecture
him that he is ‘governor, not a Catholic bishop.’ Worse, after citing John F.
Kennedy’s remarks on separation of church and state, the editorial accused
Romney, a Mormon, of ‘accepting instructions on public policy from the pope.’
Their lame attempt to spin the issue will fool no one save those Boston Catholics
whose anger over the sex abuse scandal has driven them off the deep end.
They are so full of rage they can’t even see straight anymore.

“Another city that is cracking up with Catholic-bashing furor is San Francisco.
It’s not the Catholics who have cracked up there—it’s those public officials who
are so wedded to the radical gay agenda that they no longer know what the
common good means. When Pope John Paul II died, Mayor Newsom and the
entire Board of Supervisors refused to attend a Mass presided over by
Archbishop Levada, and now Newsom has decided not to travel to Rome
for Levada’s installation because he thinks the Vatican’s opposition to gay
adoption is ‘corrosive and divisive.’ He also blasted the Vatican for its ‘stale
and questionable documents,’ as if his trendy and morally bankrupt positions
should instruct the Vatican.

“It’s open season on the Catholic Church. The bullies need to be beaten back
and branded as the bigots that they are.”

http://www.catholicleague.org/06press_releases/quarter%201/060315_gay_adoption.htm

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