California bishop defunds non-profit whose president supports abortion, same-sex ‘marriage’
Image via Wikipedia SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA, March 9, 2012, ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – The Diocese of Sacramento has withheld funds from a non-profit organization whose leader publicly supports abortion and same-sex marriage. Diocesan spokesman Kevin Eckery said that Bishop Jaimo Soto personally approved the decision to defund Francis House Center because of the outspoken stance of its leader - United Methodist Rev. Faith Whitmore - in opposition to Catholic teaching on key moral issues. Whitmore told Sacramento’s News 10-TV that a priest personally explained to her in January that the diocese would no longer collect funds for the organization because of her strong “support for Planned Parenthood , because I believe that Planned Parenthood is the foremost educational health care provider to women, especially to poor women.” While serving as pastor of St. Mark’s United Methodist Church , she conducted same-sex “marriage” ceremonies in defiance of her denomination’s ban on doing so