Results tagged “catholiccharities”

Just about a week ago, Bostonist garnered more comments than we'd ever before received on a single post when we talked about the Massachusetts Catholic archbishops' plan to stop placing children for adoption with same-sex couples, in violation of state anti-discrimination law. At first, the Church seemed confident it would get around the problem hiring a white-shoe law firm to seek an exemption, and although the Governor initially said the matter was out of his...

The new and improved (?) Supreme Court dropped a decision yesterday that has a ton of relevance to the Boston area, ruling that it is constitutional for Congress to require law schools to give access to military recruiters, even if the schools have a general policy banning employers who, like the military, discriminate against homosexuals. The law schools' theory was that a rule requiring them to let bigots on campus forced them to endorse the...

Yesterday passed without a single major media picture of John Kerry after Ash Wednesday services. The solidarity he showed with his Catholic faith on the election trail might not have been something he needed to flaunt, or wanted to, this year. When in competition with Bush it seemed an important political message to show that he was a bit more moderate than the ‘Massachusetts liberal’ he’d been portrayed as. This year, Ash Wednesday came and went with the spotlight shining instead on the resignations from the board of the Catholic Charities over same-sex-couple’s right to adopt.

Whew! Bostonist was worried for a minute that gay marriage and related issues might stay out of the headlines for too long, but the good folks at the Catholic Church seldom let us down. The bishops of Massachusetts's four archdioceses have announced their plan to seek an exemption for Catholic Charities from the state rule (in .pdf form) forbidding licensed adoption agencies from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation. As you might have guessed,...