The Massachusetts Catholic Conference is deliberating a move to fire homosexual employees who decide to “marry” their same-sex partners, a Church spokesman said last Thursday.
The Massachusetts Catholic Conference's associate director for policy and research, Daniel Avila, who sets guidelines for the four dioceses within Massachusetts, told Reuters news, “There have been conversations about how one needs to act consistently with the Church's teachings and this has been discussed. The Church has long had a position that the people working on its behalf need to display conduct consistent with the beliefs of the Church,” he said.
“Practically and theoretically, we have the right to conduct our activities consistent with our practices,” Avila said, emphasizing that the Church can act just as well as speak against the anathema of same-sex marriage.
Massachusetts is currently the only U.S. state to have legalized same-sex “marriage.” The Supreme Judicial Court's order came into effect in May.
(This update courtesy of LifeSiteNews.com.)
Same-Sex Adoption Endorsed by the American Medical Association
The American Medical Association, at their annual general meeting this week, has overwhelmingly endorsed a motion to allow same-sex adoptions.
The move marks the third major “politically correct” action taken at this session, including a recommendation that the FDA allow over-the-counter sales of the morning-after pill, and that the U.S. restore its funding to the United Nations Population Fund. The motion, introduced by medical student Jana Montgomery Tuesday, ended with delegates overwhelmingly supporting the motion by a vote of 316 to 130.
(This update courtesy of LifeSiteNews.com.)
