Culture War, to the death
In the last few years the advancement of civil rights has led to the Catholic Church doing things like threatening to close (or perhaps acutally close) orphanages because they refuse to consider placing a child with a same sex couple.
I strongly disagree with this, but at least there could be, in a different world, evidence that such a child would be better off with a traditional couple. There was a debate to be had, and I think the law has come down on the winning side.
Now I read "The District of Columbia became the sixth US jurisdiction to allow same-sex unions after the Supreme Court threw out a last-minute legal challenge." at BBC news. [ Note for non-Americans: there are 50 American states, but "Washington D.C" aka "District of Columbia" is not contained in any of them. The nation's capital is an anomalous jurisdictional. ]
In America most health insurance comes via the workplace, and all such policies I know of can be extended to cover spouses and children. And I also see today this, in the Washington Post:
"Catholic Charities -- the archdiocese's social service arm -- said last month that it would end its 80-year-old foster care program rather than place children with same-sex couples. On Monday, it told its 800 employees that it would not make spousal health benefits available to any new employee, straight or gay, to any current employee who marries in the future or to spouses of current employees who are not covered by the plan."
What is the debate here? That Catholics might help a gay person get healed? Does that condemn the Catholics to their Catholic hell? So the solution is not to heal spouses? Hey: what if the employee is homosexual? I don't have the time or energy to dig into the relevant employment law for that case.
I strongly disagree with this, but at least there could be, in a different world, evidence that such a child would be better off with a traditional couple. There was a debate to be had, and I think the law has come down on the winning side.
Now I read "The District of Columbia became the sixth US jurisdiction to allow same-sex unions after the Supreme Court threw out a last-minute legal challenge." at BBC news. [ Note for non-Americans: there are 50 American states, but "Washington D.C" aka "District of Columbia" is not contained in any of them. The nation's capital is an anomalous jurisdictional. ]
In America most health insurance comes via the workplace, and all such policies I know of can be extended to cover spouses and children. And I also see today this, in the Washington Post:
"Catholic Charities -- the archdiocese's social service arm -- said last month that it would end its 80-year-old foster care program rather than place children with same-sex couples. On Monday, it told its 800 employees that it would not make spousal health benefits available to any new employee, straight or gay, to any current employee who marries in the future or to spouses of current employees who are not covered by the plan."
What is the debate here? That Catholics might help a gay person get healed? Does that condemn the Catholics to their Catholic hell? So the solution is not to heal spouses? Hey: what if the employee is homosexual? I don't have the time or energy to dig into the relevant employment law for that case.