Vatican to SF Church: "Obey only us!" SF Court: "Uh, No."

[curiosityandthecat]

San Fran Resolution Against Vatican’s Anti-Gay Instructions OK’d

A San Francisco resolution decrying instructions from the Vatican to an American Catholic organization to defy local law was upheld in federal court.

The March 21, 2006 resolution was a response by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to orders issued by the Vatican instructing Catholic Charities to break the law and treat prospective adoptive parents on a discriminatory basis according to whether or not the couples were heterosexual or homosexual.

http://bit.ly/9rQQh

[Will]

Serves them right. Institutionalized bigotry has to be challenged.

[curiosityandthecat]

Figured you'd probably heard about this one, Will. Just seems crazy to me that the Vatican would think they could tell churches in other countries to disregard local laws and only follow theirs.  

[Nulono]

It's because questioning them is taboo.

[PipeBox]

And because they're the Vatican.  Political fallout from this outside San Francisco?  None.