Title: Vatican to SF Church: "Obey only us!" SF Court: "Uh, No."
Post by: curiosityandthecat on June 06, 2009, 11:34:15 PM
Post by: curiosityandthecat on June 06, 2009, 11:34:15 PM
San Fran Resolution Against Vatican’s Anti-Gay Instructions OK’d
http://bit.ly/9rQQh (http://bit.ly/9rQQh)
QuoteA 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 (http://bit.ly/9rQQh)
Title: Re: Vatican to SF Church: "Obey only us!" SF Court: "Uh, No."
Post by: Will on June 06, 2009, 11:48:36 PM
Post by: Will on June 06, 2009, 11:48:36 PM
Serves them right. Institutionalized bigotry has to be challenged.
Title: Re: Vatican to SF Church: "Obey only us!" SF Court: "Uh, No."
Post by: curiosityandthecat on June 06, 2009, 11:50:31 PM
Post by: curiosityandthecat on June 06, 2009, 11:50:31 PM
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. 
Title: Re: Vatican to SF Church: "Obey only us!" SF Court: "Uh, No."
Post by: Nulono on June 07, 2009, 04:02:42 AM
Post by: Nulono on June 07, 2009, 04:02:42 AM
It's because questioning them is taboo.
Title: Re: Vatican to SF Church: "Obey only us!" SF Court: "Uh, No."
Post by: PipeBox on June 08, 2009, 03:40:49 AM
Post by: PipeBox on June 08, 2009, 03:40:49 AM
And because they're the Vatican. Political fallout from this outside San Francisco? None.