From the Washington Post...

The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington said Wednesday that it will be unable to continue the social service programs it runs for the District if the city doesn't change a proposed same-sex marriage law, a threat that could affect tens of thousands of people the church helps with adoption, homelessness and health care.

So let me get this straight, if Washington D.C. doesn't discriminate against gay people, the Catholic Church will stop helping the needy?

OK all you Catholics out there, I want you to take a long hard look in the mirror and ask yourself if you really believe this is a righteous stance to be making. Did you believe the Catholic Church to be correct when they fought against allowing interracial couples to marry? Was Leon Bazile, the deciding judge in the Loving v. Virginia case, correct when he proclaimed

"Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. And but for the interference with his arrangement there would be no cause for such marriages. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix."

The supreme court didn't think much of Bazile and overturned his decision 9-0 which made all laws banning interracial marriage unconstitutional.

When laws preventing gay people from marrying are one day deemed just as unconstitutional as the discriminatory race laws that proceeded them, I'd like to tell my children that the Catholic Church was on the right side of this one. If the church's actions in Washington D.C. are any indication, I won't be able to.

I shouldn't be surprised. After all...


...of course, by "God", he really means "I"?

Do you?