Now that the Washington D.C. city council is set to vote to allow gay marriage in the district, the Catholic Church is threatening to pull all of it's social services from the district.
Although the measure before the city council explicitly states that no churches or religious organizations would have to marry the gays if they didn't want to, apparently that language is not strong enough. They are worried they might have to extend employee benefits to same-sex partners of Catholic charity workers.
I can understand why they may not want to do such a thing, but their reaction shows you where their priorities lie. I'm not a biblical scholar, but I seem to recall that Jesus talked a lot about the poor...feeding, clothing, etc. It's kind of a big deal. I don't recall the part where he talks about employee benefits not being extended to domestic partners. Maybe it's somewhere towards the back.
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