Catholic Charities

A Catholic adoption agency is closing because they can’t discriminate against gay people

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

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Kansas governor will sign law making it legal to ban gays & lesbians from adopting

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

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Oklahoma & Kansas inch closer to legalizing discrimination in adoptions

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.

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Contraception and little sisters carrying a big stick

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?

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Gingrich claims religious rights are being ‘outlawed’ by marriage equality

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.…

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Illinois Senate subcommittee kills anti-gay adoption bill

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…

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Chicago Cardinal George backs away from gay ‘Ku Klux Klan’ comment

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…

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Chicago cardinal compares LGBT Pride to ‘Ku Klux Klan’

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…

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IL Catholic Charities drops lawsuit, will abandon child care to avoid serving LGBT parents

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…

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Is it really about the children?

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…

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