Catholic Charities

A consumer group allied with anti-LGBTQ hate groups told supporters to avoid Burger King and McDonald’s “whenever possible” and instead go to Wendy’s, although they also don’t like their “progressive” company culture.

Ten Republicans have to support the landmark LGBTQ legislation for it to pass. Her objections could tank the bill.

The agency says it’s Christian religious beliefs give it the freedom to discriminate.

An investigation in the Church’s city-state show that voluntary donations for the poor made up a majority of the bucks given to a company that funded “Rocketman”, among other ventures.

The Catholic Archdiocese of Indianapolis has declared war on all LGBTQ workers – and now they’re going after straight allies.

The best interests of the child isn’t as important as their bigotry against some potential loving parents.

The law would allow adoption agencies to discard the best interests of the child in favor of the group’s “sincerely held religious beliefs.”

Child service agencies and business are against allowing discrimination against gay and lesbian couples – but Catholic officials and the Kansas City Chiefs’ owner are for it.

If the Little Sisters of the Poor and the Catholic Church are really “of the poor,” how can they square their policies with truly serving poor people?

Former U.S. House Speaker, and failed GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich, appearing Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” falsely claimed that Catholic adoption agencies are being “outlawed” in some states where marriage equality laws take effect.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — A bill that would amend the Illinois Religious Freedom Protection and Civil Unions Act to allow religiously based child welfare institutions to decline adoption to couples in a civil union was killed in Springfield Friday by activists from the ACLU of Illinois and The Civil Rights Agenda.

According to ABC News Chicago, Cardinal Francis George has began to backtrack on comments likening gay activists to the Ku Klux Klan, even after earlier refusing to do so. Last week Chicago’s Roman Catholic leader decried a rerouting of the 2012 June LGBT Pride parade route to a path that would take the march in front of a Catholic church, saying “You don’t want the gay liberation movement to morph into something like the Ku Klux Klan, demonstrating in the streets against Catholicism.”

On the heels of an agreement about parade times reached between Chicago LGBT Pride organizers and Our Lady of Mt. Carmel church — which sits on the June parade route — the Windy City’s Cardinal Francis George compared the event to “something like the Ku Klux Klan.”

Three Roman Catholic dioceses have dropped their lawsuit against the state of Illinois, agreeing to transfer more than 1,000 foster care children and staff to other agencies in their regions to avoid placing children in the homes of gay and lesbian parents.

When you contrast the millions upon millions of dollars that these parasitic groups of institutions have spent to marginalize and demonize LGBTQ persons against the stark reality of the needs of the poor, disadvantaged and children who need loving homes and who need to be nurtured, it is difficult to not feel disgusted and angered.

An Illinois judge on Thursday reached a verdict in a lawsuit brought by Catholic Charities against the state regarding adoption services for same-sex couples in civil unions, and ruled that the state had the right to discontinue contracting with Catholic Charities.

An Illinois judge on Tuesday granted the state’s Catholic Charities programs a preliminary injunction preventing the state from canceling its adoption and foster care contracts with the agencies.

The state of Illinois has announced it will not renew its foster care and adoption contracts with Catholic Charities across Illinois, because the group has said it would not comply with the state’s new civil unions law.

Catholic Charities of Peoria and Joliet, Illinois, following the lead of the Rockford Diocese, announced Friday that they will discontinue adoption and foster care programs because of the state’s civil unions law that took effect June 1.

The Rockford, Ill., Catholic Diocese announced Thursday that it would discontinue adoption and foster care programs rather than be forced to serve same-sex or unmarried opposite-sex couples under the state’s new civil unions law.