Australian court ruling allows religious charities to discriminate against gays
”It is important to protect people from unjust discrimination but it is ridiculous to claim discrimination every time we show a preference for some people over others.”
Catholic Cardinal George Pell basically saying the definition of “discrimination” has nothing to do with the discrimination that his church uses. He is remarking on a the case of a gay couple that won a judgement against Wesley Mission for refusing access to their foster care services. The $10,000 award and an order for the Mission to stop discriminating was overturned by a panel alluding that its okay for a religious services organization to refuse equal services to gays and monogamous heterosexual couples because they offend people in their religion. (News.com.au)
The Catholic Church as a whole has moved from “traditional” anti-gay rhetoric to direct political involvement since John Ratzinger arrived as Pope, making the Catholic Church a leader in both funding and actions to block the interests of gay equality. Here in DC, the Archdiocese of Washington stated last week that their nonprofit organizations would not comply with legal recognition of marriage as it would apply to gay couples. In Maine, the Catholic Church reportedly contributed $550,000 toward the repeal of same-sex marriage. That issue will be decided this coming Tuesday.
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