The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington has, in response to marriage equality in DC, chosen to drop spousal health care benefits for its employees. Additionally, they have dropped their foster/adoption program. The reason is that the Catholic Church does not recognize same-gender-loving couples and is unwilling to extend health care to the spouses of their gay and lesbian employees. Additionally, they are not willing to place children in houses of married gay or lesbian couples.
I find this so troubling. Jesus helps us redefine family, extending our notion of who is and who is not family far beyond our comfort zone. Jesus embraced the outcast, the unlovely and unlovable, extending love and a healing touch even to the untouchables. Here, Jesus points, are my sisters and brothers...all who do the will of God.
The Catholic Church has now chosen to pull the plug on the well-being of the families of its employees. Additionally, it is turning its back the cries of children who long for permanent, forever families.
While conservative pundits warn that marriage equality will spell the ruin of marriage and destroy the family, it seems like the ones who are doing that are conservatives themselves!
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