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The media may have painted the same-sex adoption fight as a battle over religious freedom. But there’s much more at stake. When Massachusetts wanted to force Catholic Charities ’ adoption services to submit to the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruling about homosexual “marriage,” the Church refused. The media played the story as a simple confrontation over religious rights — as if Catholic Charities’ right to affirm traditional marriage is only defensible in the same way as tribal religions’ rights to get high from peyote buttons. People like Charles Mitchell who grew up with homosexual parents know that the Church’s opposition to the practice isn’t an eccentricity of Catholic belief. It’s a bold, counter-cultural stand in defense of children. Charles Mitchell and two brothers were adopted as infants by two men. He called same-sex adoption “a tragic social experiment” and said, “homosexuality destroyed a normal way of life for us.” Often, the homosexual parents shown in the media ar...

Image by Catholic Church (England and Wales) via Flickr Yesterday, our Commander in Chief – the man whose most central oath is to strengthen and defend our country and its military – signed into law an action that will do more to damage U.S. military strength than any bombs or tanks of our enemies. With all due respect to separation of Church and State , the U.S. military could learn some valuable lessons from the Roman Catholic Church .          The combat forces of the U.S. military, like the Catholic priesthood , have always been built on a distinctly masculine bond of obligation. Both bands of brothers gather to protect something Sacred. The  priestly gathering is most visible  whenever two or more gather around the altar to celebrate Mass, with Jesus Christ in the Eucharist , at the Sacred Center.          Just as the military bands together in its collective duty to protect the nation and her citizens, so the prie...