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Michigan’s Attorney General Dana Nessel has announced that taxpayer-funded adoption agencies with religious objections to placing children in homes of homosexual “married” couples will no longer be able to cite their faith as a legitimate reason to opt out of providing that service. The move has the effect of forcing religious adoption agencies to violate their consciences if they want state money. In a statement released Friday, Nessel, a liberal Democrat and a lesbian, declared that “discrimination in the provision of foster care case management and adoption services is illegal, no matter the rationale.” Nessel’s unilateral decision, which will likely bring to an end Christian adoption services in Michigan, serves as the settlement reached between the State of Michigan and the American Civil Liberties Union, which sued the state in 2017 on behalf of a lesbian couple who wanted to adopt but were turned away from St. Vincent Catholic Charities and Bethany Christian Services , two of...

Cover of The New Tolerance Tolerance is our culture's supreme virtue. Whether it is  Glee  plot lines about homosexual children or battles about the role religion may play in the public square—from Christmas trees to Catholic Charities —the buzzword is "tolerance." Casual observers might note, however, that tolerance has undergone a change in meaning. What once meant recognizing other people's right to have different beliefs and practices now means accepting the differing views themselves. Vestiges of the old tolerance—conscience protections for medical professionals, religious liberty, and open discussions—are on the way out. Nowadays, conscience protections are frowned upon, threats to religious freedom prompt Congressional hearings, and "glitter bombs" replace meaningful debate. This shift from accepting the existence of different views to believing that all views are equally valid is "subtle in form, but massive in substance," explains...

National Organization for Marriage (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Let's be clear about something: the homosexual lobby and their puppet politicians' assault on Chick-fil-A is just the beginning. You see, wealthy homosexual activists, such as the so-called Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation , are not merely threatening, bullying , and attempting to destroy a great American business—they are declaring war on anyone who disagrees with their radical agenda. And why? To bully and intimidate the media and enough politicians and activist judges to force homosexual marriage as the law of the land—thereby destroying the time-tested, God ordained, traditional institution of marriage . If the homosexual lobby gets its way—and it might if people of faith don't immediately stand up to their bullying tactics—gay "marriage" will be imposed as the law of the land and the consequences will be profound. Consider: Young children will be taught in public scho...

Image via Wikipedia BELLEVILLE, ILLINOIS, February 1, 2012, ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – What’s in a name? Sometimes more than meets the eye. Catholic Social Services of Southern Illinois is changing its name to Christian Social Services of Illinois as of today, but the shift is more than one of semantics. The social agency is ending its 64-year affiliation with the Diocese of Belleville so it can provide adoptions to homosexual couples. “CSS has chosen to become independent of the Catholic Diocese of Belleville in order to adhere to the new State of Illinois Religious Freedom Protection and Civil Union Act and to avoid closing the agency,” the formerly Catholic service  stated  in a press release. It added, “The mission and values of Christian Social Services will remain the same.” Gary Huelsmann, the agency’s executive director, said, “Although we are sad to lose our Catholic identity, we are excited to be able to broaden our base of support to other Christian traditions .”...

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-s...

Image via Wikipedia Another important and immediate result of same-sex “marriage” would be serious damage to religious liberty . Religious liberty means much more than liturgical rituals. It applies not only to formal houses of worship, but to para-church ministries, religious educational and social service organizations, and individual believers trying to live their lives in accordance with their faith not only at church, but at home, in their neighborhoods, and in the workplace. These, more than your pastor or parish priest, are the entities whose religious liberty is most threatened by samesex “marriage.” Some of these threats to religious liberty can arise from “nondiscrimination” laws based on sexual orientation, even without same-sex “marriage.” But when homosexual “marriage” becomes legal, then laws which once applied to homosexuals only as individuals then apply to homosexual couples as well. So, for example, wh...

CHICAGO, October 20, 2011  – Lawyers for Catholic Charities affiliates in three dioceses in Illinois are protesting in court after the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) said it would transfer over 1,000 children from the church-run agencies by only a fraction of the original timeline. The revelation comes at the same time as news broke that the Illinois child-welfare agency, which is taking over the children’s cases after the state pas Image via Wikipedia sed its homosexual civil unions bill, has a history of subversively administering psychotropic drugs to children without permission. “Why is the DCFS, particularly in light of the scandal that it is handling now, dealing with [Catholic Charities’] workload in a hasty manner,” asked attorney Peter Breen of the  Thomas More Society , who is representing Catholic Charities, in an interview with LifeSiteNews. Breen pointed out that the state agency has only imposed the accelerated time frame on the th...

Image via Wikipedia When the “Catholic” Association for Lesbian & Gay Ministry attempted to hold a fundraiser in a St. Paul-Minneapolis parish several months ago, Archbishop Niensted  quickly put a stop to it . When the same “Catholic” Association for Lesbian & Gay Ministry (CALGM) announces it will host its  national conference  in Albany, NY , Bishop Howard Hubbard   agrees to celebrate Mass for them . Bishop Hubbard turns 75 in a little over two years, but he seems intent on continuing to inflict pastoral damage on his diocese until he retires. This is the  same bishop  who has publicly praised and gave Communion to Gov. Andrew Cuomo , approved the distribution of free needles by Catholic Charities to serial drug abusers, and through his position on the US Bishops ’ committee on international justice and peace,  puts Catholic endorsement behind horrible political proposals which will harm our fragile economy . Bishop Hubbard’...