Tag Archives: Catholic Church

RHODE ISLAND: Catholic Diocese Calls On Assembly To Kill Civil Unions

Following the collapse of Rhode Island’s same-sex marriage bill, a civil unions bill is now being floated as a “compromise.” And of course, the Catholic Church is early out of the gate with their denouncement. We hope that those members of the Rhode Island General Assembly who have consistently supported traditional marriage will stay steadfast in their opposition to the …

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Corpse Of Pope John Paul II Exhumed In Preparation For Sainthood

Beyond creepy.

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BRITAIN: Court Rejects Catholic Bid For Exemption From Gay Adoption Laws

A British appeals tribunal has rejected the demand of the Catholic Church that they be exempted from laws banning discrimination against gay adoptive parents. As we’ve seen happen in several U.S. cities, church adoption officials say they’d rather close their doors and let children go without families than abide by the law. Leeds-based Catholic Care have said they will have …

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Catholic League’s Bill Donohue To Lady Gaga: Why Don’t You Pick On Muslims?

Catholic League blowhard Bill Donahue takes a moment off from defending pedophiles to attack Lady Gaga over her new single, Judas, in the video for which she plays Mary Magdalene. The clip will be released (ta-DAH) on Easter Sunday.

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Queer Rising To Protest Easter Parade

Queer Rising will protest the Catholic Church at this weekend’s NYC Easter Parade, which as evidenced by the above photo typically draws a fair amount of gay men, drag queens, and fashionistas. Queer Rising cites a recent anti-gay marriage lobbying trip to Albany by Archbishop Timothy Dolan as prompting the protest. Via press release: “It is good to see members …

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ILLINOIS: GOP Sneaks Anti-Gay Adoption Provision Into Bill For The Blind

Illinois Republicans have quietly added an anti-gay adoption amendment into a bill to assist the blind. Windy City Times reports: An amendment to a proposed bill in the Illinois Senate states that “a child welfare agency that is religiously based or owned by, operated by, or affiliated with a bona fide religious organization may decline an adoption or foster family …

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Catholic League Publishes Full-Page Anti-Gay New York Times Ad

The Catholic League today published a full-page ad in the New York Times in which blowhard Bill Donohue blames the church’s pedophilia scandals on homosexuality. An excerpt: The refrain that child rape is a reality in the Church is twice wrong: let’s get it straight—they weren’t children and they weren’t raped. We know from the John Jay study that most …

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This Week In Holy Crimes

Over the last seven days… Texas: Pastor Julio Perez charged with murder for hiring a hit man to shoot his wife.Mississippi: Pastor Eddie Prince charged with downloading child porn on a public library computer.Washington DC: Whistleblower lawsuit filed against Catholic Charities for charging the poor for flu shots meant to be free under a government-funded program.New York: Father Francis McCloskey …

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COLORADO: Denver Archbishop Celebrates Defeat Of Civil Unions Bill

“In the face of unfriendly media coverage and heavy political pressure, opponents of the legislation did the right thing. They challenged and tabled the bill, killing it for this session. That sounds like a small act, but it took courage, especially in an environment of bitter criticism. The committee members who opposed the bill deserve our gratitude and support. The …

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Catholic Church Fights CT Move To Lift Statute Of Limitations On Molestation

Connecticut lawmakers says they are shocked by the Catholic Church’s opposition to a proposed lifting of the statute of limitations on lawsuits for the sexual abuse of minors. “I’m just so surprised they are opposing this. We certainly had the sense last year that they would not,” Sen. Beth Bye, D-West Hartford, said of the bill she proposed that eliminates …

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NOM Rhode Island: House Vote On Marriage May Be Very Close

The leader of NOM’s Rhode Island chapter appeared on CBN yesterday to praise Catholic and Hispanic churches for “standing up against gay marriage.” According to this NOM spokesbigot, marriage equality has a shot of passage in the state House, but petitions from anti-gay churches may have convinced the Senate not to move forward.

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NEW HAMPSHIRE: House GOP Leader Calls Catholic Bishop “A Pedophile Pimp”

New Hampshire House GOP leader D.J. Bettencourt is under fire for calling Bishop John McCormack a “pedophile pimp” after the cleric demonstrated against proposed budget cuts for social services. Before being named bishop of Manchester in 1998, McCormack served as a top aide to Cardinal Bernard Law in Boston, where the Catholic sex abuse scandal began and where he was …

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Catholic Bishops To HUD: Don’t Add Gays To Housing Discrimination Protections

In January the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) proposed sweeping new rules adding LGBT people as a protected class in all of its programs. That doesn’t sit well with the Catholic Conference of Bigoted Bishops, who have sent HUD a letter strongly opposing the change. “By this, we do not mean that any person should be denied housing. …

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O’Donnell On Catholics & Gays

Last night MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell ripped on Archbishop Timothy Dolan and Glenn Beck for their dumbassery in the face of the latest poll showing that the majority of America’s lay Catholics do support LGBT rights and same-sex marriage.

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Archbishop Timothy Dolan: I Have No Right To Play Shortstop For The Yankees And Gays Have No Right To Get Married

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Vatican: Obama’s Pro-Gay UN Resolution Attacks Our Right To Be Hateful Bigots

“People are being attacked for taking positions that do not support sexual behaviour between people of the same sex. When they express their moral beliefs or beliefs about human nature … they are stigmatised, and worse — they are vilified, and prosecuted. These attacks are violations of fundamental human rights and cannot be justified under any circumstances. States can and …

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Maggie Gallagher: Britain’s War Against Christians Is Coming To America

“In Great Britain, Christians are now effectively second-class citizens, judged ‘unfit’ to care for foster children. If they are unfit to foster children, logically they are also unfit to adopt, and possibly as one British lawyer suggested to the press, unfit to parent their own children, too. Could it happen over here? Yes. We see the first steps of the …

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Baltimore Archbishop Calls For Day Of Fasting To Prevent Same-Sex Marriage

Baltimore Archbishop Edwin O’Brien is calling on Maryland’s Catholics to pray and fast on this Friday in order that God hears their call to prevent same-sex marriage. Good As You has the rest of his message: “The institution of marriage can only belong to the union of one man and one woman because nature – not social prejudice – has …

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PHILADELPHIA: 21 Catholic Priests Suspended Over Abuse Accusations

In a move that is being described as the most sweeping in the history of the American Catholic Church, the Archdiocese of Philadelphia has suspended 21 priests accused of sexual abuse or “inappropriate behavior with minors.” The Archdiocese is refusing to identify the the suspended priests and most parishioners will learn of their priest’s involvement when he fails to appear …

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OHIO: Drunk Driving Catholic Priest Offers Blowjobs To Arresting Officers

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