U.S. bishop asks Catholics: Are you a homosexual bigot?
JOLIET, January 27, 2012 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – In a hard-hitting statement Illinois Bishop Daniel Conlon has decried his state’s refusal to provide funding to Catholic adoption agencies over their refusal to adopt children to homosexuals, and defended the Church against charges of discrimination. “Are a bigot? If you are a believing Catholic, chances are many people will consider you a bigot,” the bishop wrote. “To believe, as Catholics do, that homosexual acts are disordered, as well as immoral, is considered a form of prejudice against people with same-sex attractions.” Bishop Daniel Conlon The state stripped funding from Catholic adoption agencies this past summer after the legislature passed a same-sex civil unions bill. Though the bill’s promoters had actively campaigned to dispel the “myth” that it would affect faith-based adoption agencies, after it passed the state immediately moved to end its contracts with Christian adoption agencies that refused to offer same-sex adopti