Monday, November 16, 2009

Tolerating the intolerant

I am getting more and more frustrated with the politically correct idea of religious tolerance of various faith based organizations. And yet, those organizations themselves are intolerant. Example, the Catholic Church, in another one of their hypocrisies, is against providing healthcare benefits to it's gay employees, because of their opposition to gay marriage. The Catholic church is also against divorce, but is allowing divorced and then remarried people health care benefits. Hmmm... http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/georgetown/2009/11/catholic_charities_gays_and_dcs_poor.html

This article mainly points out however how the Washington DC City Council enacted a law that prohibits discrimination against gay marriage. Because of this, the Catholic Charities will close down and not offer help to anyone, because they take tax money and that would force them to uphold this law. Meaning, they won't be charitable to anyone, if they have to be charitable to gays!

The author of this article is placing some of the blame on the city council for enacting this law, and thus forcing the Catholic Charities to shut down and consequently having less providers of this service.

This is what I don't get! Discrimination against gay people by anyone is wrong. PERIOD!!! Compromising with the church only would support their continued intolerance and hypocrisy! The Church is WRONG and IMMORAL for doing that and it should not be condoned with compromises by the government!



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