The California Catholic Daily has this story today about how Homosexuals are in a Position of Authority .
“Homosexual activists in positions of authority”
Federal appeals court slated to consider constitutionality of San Francisco resolution condemning Catholic Church
A three-judge panel of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is scheduled this morning to hear arguments on whether a 2006 resolution by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors calling the Catholic Church’s teachings on homosexual adoptions “hateful” and “ignorant” violates First Amendment guarantees that the government cannot be hostile to religion.
“Thomas More Law Center attorney Robert Muise will present oral arguments urging the Court to reverse the decision of District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel,” said a news release issued yesterday by the Thomas More Law Center. “Judge Patel, a Carter appointee and one time counsel for the National Organization for Women (NOW), ruled that the resolution did not violate the constitution because the Catholic Church invited the condemnation by publicly opposing adoptions by homosexual partners.”
San Francisco supervisors adopted the resolution on March 21, 2006, after the Vatican reiterated its opposition to adoptions by homosexuals as harmful to children. The resolution, among other things, “alludes to the Vatican as a ‘foreign country’ meddling in the affairs of the City and describes the Church’s moral teaching and beliefs as ‘insulting to all San Franciscans, ’ ‘hateful,’ ‘insulting and callous,’ ‘defamatory,’ ‘absolutely unacceptable,’ ‘insensitive and ignorant,’” according to the law center’s news release. The resolution also urged the Archbishop of San Francisco and Catholic Charities of San Francisco to defy the Vatican’s directives.
“Our constitution plainly forbids hostility toward any religion, including the Catholic faith,” said Muise. “In total disregard for the Constitution, homosexual activists in positions of authority in San Francisco have abused their authority as government officials and misused the instruments of the government to attack the Catholic Church. Their egregious abuse of power now has the backing of a lower federal court. This decision must be reversed.”
In her ruling, Judge Patel said, “The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith provoked this debate, indeed may have invited entanglement, by its statement. This court does not find that our case law requires political bodies to remain silent in the face of this provocation.”
“Judge Patel attempted to rationalize the evocative rhetoric and venom of the resolution which are sad reminders of Catholic baiting by the Ku Klux Klan,” said Richard Thompson, president and chief counsel of the Law Center. “Sadly, the ruling itself clearly exhibited hostility toward the Catholic Church.”
The Thomas More Law Center filed the appeal on behalf of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights and two Catholic residents of San Francisco, the news release said.
A week after adopting the anti-Catholic resolution, San Francisco supervisors adopted a resolution condemning 25,000 Evangelical teens who had gathered in the city to express opposition to homosexual conduct. “Openly gay San Francisco Assemblyman Mark Leno said the teenage group is ‘obnoxious’ and ‘disgusting’ and should not be tolerated,” said the Law Center’s release. “He told the Christian group to ‘get out of San Francisco.’” Leno is now a Democratic candidate for state Senate.
“The policy of San Francisco is one of totalitarian intolerance of Christians of all denominations who oppose homosexual conduct,” said Thompson. “My concern is that if the judge’s ruling is allowed to stand, it will further embolden the San Francisco Board in its anti-Christian attacks.”
To read the San Francisco Board of Supervisors’ resolution in its entirety, Click Here.
To read federal Judge Marilyn Patel’s ruling, Click Here.
To read the complaint filed by the Catholic League, Click Here.
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