SF Catholic Charities official is gay adoptive parent

[kweerwolf]

The controversy over Catholic agencies' involvement in same-sex adoptions has taken a new turn, with a report that the chief administrative officer of Catholic Charities in the San Francisco archdiocese is an openly homosexual man with an adopted daughter.

Writing on the Ignatius Insight internet site, Valerie Schmalz notes that Glenn Motola, the director of programs for Catholic Charities in San Francisco, is openly gay-- as are at least four members of the Catholic Charities board. Motola has been identified as a gay adoptive father in the archdiocesan newspaper, Catholic San Francisco, as well as in the gay publication, The Advocate.

Archbishop George Niederauer, the newly installed head of the San Francisco archdiocese, announced last week that Catholic Charities must stop placing children for adoption by same-sex couples. It is not yet clear whether the San Francisco office of Catholic Charities, like its counterpart in Boston, will pull out of the adoption business rather than risk a legal confrontation in light of anti-discrimination laws that require adoption agencies to give equal treatment to homosexual couples.

Archbishop Niederauer's policy decision came after a message from Archbishop William Levada, the prefect of the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, indicated that Catholic agencies cannot be involved in same-sex adoptions. Ironically, Archbishop Levada had allowed Catholic Charities to facilitate same-sex adoptions during his term as the Archbishop of San Francisco.

http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=43096

[CatholicEdHead]

1. Oh Catholic World News

don't you just love the hate in the comments? I skim it every day and I get a weak stomach every time. :puke: :puke:

[Ian David]

2. World Church of the Creator looks forward to religious exemptions...

for adoption and other services.

Their dream for an all-white homeland is inching ever closer toward them.

[TaleWgnDg]

3. In light of . . .

In light of http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=43096 as to San Francisco Catholic Charities, gay adoptions, and the Roman Catholic Church . . . the turn of events will be similar to those as in Boston's Catholic Charities.

When push comes to shove, it will be a sad turn of events. Because San Francisco Catholic Charities will be forced to comport w/ The Holy See's edict about homosexuals, period. That is, SF Catholic Charities will be compelled to divest itself from services re gay parents who adopt children as did Boston's Catholic Charities.

However, what happens to those gays who are serving the administration of SF Catholic Charities? Well. I don't believe The Holy See requires their resignation u/ its hypocritical and unworkable "inclusiveness" tenet, i.e., include and love the homosexual but condemn the behavior! (How "workable" is THAT?) Instead, I believe gays will resign in disgust. Who could blame them? After all, if the Roman Catholic Church mandates that it discriminate against gays, then what gay will serve and enforce discriminatory policies against gays?

For those unfamiliar w/ The Holy See's egregious edicts and writings about homosexuals wherein the Vatican uses the strongest of Canon Law wording against homosexuals, such as "violence against children," "immoral," I strongly urge you read some of these documents:

http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20030731_homosexual-unions_en.html
(wherein the Vatican rails against homosexual unions/marriage and their parenting, as last visited Thursday, March 16, 2006)

http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20021124_politica_en.html
(wherein the Vatican rails against Roman Catholic voters and politicians who do not vote within the Roman Catholic religious tenets, as last visited August 4, 2004)

http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=40891
(an unofficial English from Italian translation of The Holy See's Congregation for Catholic Education - Instruction concerning the criteria of vocational discernment regarding persons with homosexual tendencies, considering their admission to seminary and to Holy Orders, wherein Rome prohibits homosexuals from entering their religious training for the priesthood but does not restrict homosexuals presently w/i the Church, all of which is allegedly a "curative measure" against priest pedophilia, as last visited Wednesday, November 30, 2005)


Gay Unions/Marriage legally grant the parties the right to parent,
which is u/ attack by the ultra-conservative Christian rightwing;
therefore, the ultra-conservative Christian rightwing have chosen to attack
the other legal avenue of "gay parenting," so-called "gay adoptions."

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[cap]

4. I think the gays should hang in there

and force the Vatican to order the archbishop to fire them. I think this would piss off a lot of moderate Catholics. It wont make moderate/liberal Catholics in the SF area too happy. I think if the laity backs the gays, the Vatican will back off.

[GodlessBiker]

5. Do as we say, not as we do.