S.F. Catholic lawsuit rejected by Supreme Court

Dan82 · May 5, 2011

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/05/03/BASI1JASB7.DTL

The U.S. Supreme Court turned down an appeal Monday by Catholics who said San Francisco supervisors violated their religious rights by denouncing a Vatican ban on placing adoptive children with same-sex couples.

The supervisors passed a resolution in 2006 condemning the decree by Cardinal William Levada, the former San Francisco archbishop who now heads the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. He said allowing gay or lesbian couples to adopt children "would actually mean doing violence to these children."

The decree barred Catholic Charities, the church's provider of social services, from placing children with gays or lesbians.

The nonbinding resolution, sponsored by then-Supervisor Tom Ammiano, called Levada's order "hateful and discriminatory." It urged the new San Francisco archbishop, George Niederauer, and the local Catholic Charities to disregard the ban...

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Emberstone · May 5, 2011

the catholics claiming they are against violence to children....

actions speak louder than words.

it has been proven time and time again that children are not harmed if they are placed with same-sex families. violence against children is tied to the parent(s), not the gender of the parent(s).

shame on a church known for its disregard of children's well being to equate the parental love of two commited same-sex parents for their adoptive/suroggated children with being an act of violence.

Jay · May 5, 2011

Some Catholics.

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