Carlson tapped archdiocesan fund to fight gay marriage in Maine
12 November 2009 7:29 am by Jane Austen
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From the St. Louis Post Dispatch (which both my husband and I read everyday) we learned that the St. Louis Archdiocese contributed to the defeat of the law that would have allowed same-sex couples to marry in Maine. According to IRS regulations, “It is illegal for tax-exempt religious organizations to participate in political campaigns for candidates, but they can “engage in advocating for or against issues and, to a limited extent, ballot initiatives or other legislative activities.” Talk about circumventing the law.
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I grew up in St. Louis, knowing all about the Catholic Church and their long reach.
Just go back to Kerry’s presidential election run. Look at what the Catholic Church did that year, aided by the evangelicals on Karl Roves’ gay marriage referendums across the country.
When Woolsey talked about the IRS reaching out it was on solid ground. They Bishops’ representatives were in the room on health care in the House, signing off on the bill.
The whole racket is undemocratic.
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops is meeting next week in DC. Hold on to your living wills, folks. They’re playing overlord again:
http://www.usccb.org/comm/archives/2009/09-226.shtml
The full body of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) will take into account the most recent Catholic teaching on care for the chronically ill and dying when they vote on a proposed revision of the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services at their November 16-19 general assembly in Baltimore. The proposed revision states more definitively the moral obligation to provide medically assisted nutrition and hydration to patients in a “persistent vegetative state.”
Oh, and there’s also this re: gay marriage in DC:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/11/AR2009111116943.html
Taylor Marsh says:
12 November 2009 at 8:46 am
What’s a little extortion if you can bully the lawmakers into overturning civil law? And people wonder why I had to leave the Catholic church. This is only one of them and there are many. I guess you can say I got tired of living my life according to the dictates of a bunch of celibate men running around in red skirts.
I guess you can say I got tired of living my life according to the dictates of a bunch of celibate men running around in red skirts.
What a line!
Half of my family is Catholic, including cousins, etc. Cafeteria Catholics, as they say. They, however, don’t give the money like they used to, because of the pedophile disgrace, which should have sent every Catholic scurrying. So, they had to find another money maker. Even the Pope made a plea to Anglicans over gay marriage. The inspiration for these people is money. Saving souls is a distant third.
Second is charity work, which I respect. Though when you balance it with their hospitals it’s a wash.
Touche JA and TM I almost spit my coffee out on the iMac. You know what else fires me up first thing in the AM? Folks who obviously know little of the history of the gay and lesbian community such as this: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-kaufman/marriage-equality-and-the_b_353748.html
I always hope people think about the way they want their lives to end and hope they have Advanced Directives (few do). I have an AD with my daughter, who is a registered nurse, listed as the person who makes decisions about by health if I am not able to do so. My husband took himself out of the picture because of the emotional part of making the decision. I have one great fear and that is having my life extended, even if I’m in a constant vegetative state with no hope of ever getting better, by being force fed. Somehow I don’t want that to be the last memory that my family has of me. I’d rather they remember as being a feisty opinionated old lady who loved to laugh and loved life. I think that the Catholic church is way off base with this kind of directive. There’s a time for everyone to die and to die with dignity not with a tube in your arm and in other areas of your body.
Holy, jumping homophobes, Iceblinkjm! That one is a jaw dropper.
Yeah, if dem queens would jest stayz in da closet an only come out when we needz em ta vote everthang would be jest peachy!
JA: “I guess you can say I got tired of living my life according to the dictates of a bunch of celibate men running around in red skirts.”
If you haven’t, you need to hear Romanovsky & Phillips’ “Homophobes in Robes.”