Catholic Church Says It Will Stop Charity Work If D.C. Passes Gay Marriage Law | TPMDC. (via Reddit)

The D.C. city council is weeks away from possibly passing a law that would legalize gay marriage in the city. Though controversial with some religious groups in the city, council sources and gay rights advocates say the law is destined for passage in the nation’s capital, and supporters here expect to see the first legally recognized same-sex weddings in D.C. by spring. But today, the Washington-area Catholic Archdiocese told the city that legalizing gay marriage will cost D.C. the social services and charity work the church offers to help the city’s homeless and other low-income populations.

Some are calling the threat the strongest stand against same-sex marriage taken by the Catholic church anywhere in the country.

Classy move.

I don’t know everything about Jesus. Indeed the bible itself has contradictory accounts regarding several aspects of his life, but surley he wouldn’t approve of his largest subsidiary trying to force the prevention of gay rights by threatening the withdrawal of charity in the area to those most in need of it?

Is blackmail a sin? Apparently not if you’re trying to defeat the gays. Can these the ends justify the means? I can’t understand how people can so bury their conscience in dogma at the expense of reason and what is right.

Rufus: He still digs humanity, but it bothers Him to see the shit that gets carried out in His name – wars, bigotry, televangelism. But especially the factioning of all the religions. He said humanity took a good idea and, like always, built a belief structure on it.
Bethany: Having beliefs isn’t good?
Rufus: I think it’s better to have ideas. You can change an idea. Changing a belief is trickier. Life should malleable and progressive; working from idea to idea permits that. Beliefs anchor you to certain points and limit growth; new ideas can’t generate. Life becomes stagnant.