Punishing the children in "God's" name !

Gay Catholics' Kids Might Not Be Baptized in Canada

Archbishop of Quebec testifies as the church continues to fight a same-sex marriage bill.
By Christopher Guly
Special to The Times
July 16, 2005
OTTAWA — With Canada's gay marriage bill just days away from becoming law, the country's top Catholic leader has warned that the church could refuse to baptize the children of same-sex parents.
"If I take the example of the ceremony of baptism, according to our canon law, we cannot accept the signatures of two fathers or two mothers as parents of an infant," Cardinal Marc Ouellet, the archbishop of Quebec and primate of the Canadian Catholic Church, told a Senate committee hearing held here on the pending legislation this week.
The same-sex marriage legislation, passed last month by Canada's House of Commons, redefines civil marriage to be the "lawful union of two persons to the exclusion of all others," and not just between a man and a woman.
But the pending law allows religious officials to refuse to perform marriages "that are not in accordance with their religious beliefs.
source: http://www.latimes.com
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Posted on Sat, Jul. 16, 2005
Adoption agency bars Catholics
The Associated Press
JACKSON, Miss. — A Christian adoption agency says it does not place children with Roman Catholic couples because their religion conflicts with the agency’s “Statement of Faith.”
Bethany Christian Services stated the policy in a letter to a Jackson, Miss., couple this month. Another Mississippi couple said they were rejected for the same reason.
Sandy and Robert Steadman, who learned of the agency’s decision in a July 8 letter, said their priest told them the faith statement did not conflict with Catholicism.
Bethany, based in Grand Rapids, Mich., has 75 offices in 30 states. The offices are independently incorporated and are affiliated with various religions, spokesman John VanValkenburg said from the agency headquarters. He couldn’t say whether any were Catholic-affiliated. The Jackson office is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church of America, he said.
The faith statement describes belief in the Christian Church and Scripture.
source: http://www.kansascity.com