The Boston Archdiocese’s Catholic Charities said Friday it would stop providing adoption services because of a state law allowing gays and lesbians to adopt.
The social services arm of the Roman Catholic archdiocese, which has provided adoption services for about two decades, said the law runs counter to church teachings on homosexuality.
Amazingly, in December of last year the 42-member board of Catholic Charities voted unanimously to consider gay households when placing children in adoptive families. This clearly means that non-clergy members of the church have absolutely no problem with homosexual households adopting children, a clear pronouncement that a loving home is a loving home and that only bigotry and intolerance make such homes unlivable for children.
Directly contradicting its board members, the church’s clergy have now decided they want to see children suffer and languish rather than placed in loving and caring homes. You no doubt smell the disingenuous intent from a church that prides itself on hiding and protecting child molesters within its own ranks. Suddenly, they see fit to deny stability, care, family, and love for those children who might otherwise not find a home were it not for gay adopters.
Eight members of Catholic Charities board later stepped down in protest of the bishops’ stance.
Anyone surprised?
The state’s four Catholic bishops said earlier this month that the law threatens the church’s religious freedom by forcing it to do something it considers immoral.
Again, I cannot help but ponder the meaning of this deceptive and misguided attempt at superior morality from an organization that has spent decades keeping from the public the clergy’s own sexual abuse of minors. Now they have a conscience and wish to wield it as a weapon against gays? I have obviously missed something here, right?
It’s disheartening to see such hypocrisy from the Catholic Church, such an utter disregard for the welfare of children in search of places to call home and people to call family, and the apparent blind eye being turned to proof that clearly demonstrates that gay homes are as nurturing and as supportive as heterosexual homes. (See this comment for some examples I found with relative ease that demonstrate there is no risk for children with gay parents, adopted or otherwise.)
The truth is that there are more children waiting to be adopted than there are potential heterosexual couples to adopt them. Adding gay adopters into that statistic still leaves many children who may never find a home. By disallowing homosexual people from providing for these children, the Church clearly demonstrates that it actually dislikes kids and wishes to see them suffer.
Again, I remind you that this is the cult that spent years and years hiding its own internal child predators, using the cloak of religious freedom to keep the law at bay and to ensure the rampage of child abuse could continue unabated. With this announcement, we’re suddenly to believe that the Church is acting in the best interest of children despite their ongoing problems in that regard and the statistical data that clearly disagrees with them?
Oh, and one final thought. The Catholic sexual abuse scandal centered in the Boston Archdiocese, so that should certainly tell you something about how much they care for children. With this decision, they demonstrate yet again that adolescents are pawns and fodder for the Church’s whims, whether they are predatory and sexual or simply uncaring and uninterested.