Seymour Flops
Diamond Member
So, they were looking for a fight, a way to use children as pawns.There is something rotten in Texas. There are Children in need of homes and these women are ready, willing and able to prove one, but are not being allowed to do so. They wanted care for an older children who are hard to place. In addition, of the women is an attorney with an expertise in immigration rights. .
Wait, what? You want to start a discussion about whether homosexuals should be chosen as foster parents, but the first ground rule is no talk about homosexuality, or parenting?Let’s keep this about the Constitution, the law, government funding and refugee children as opposed to Homosexuality and parenting. There has been far too much of that and it always turns into a shit storm
Fine, let’s talk about the constitution. Under that document, Catholics are allowed to have the religious belief that homosexuality is a sin and that openly living the homosexual lifestyle sets an example of disregarding the laws of God.
Under the 1st and the tenth Amendment, Catholics are allowed to do works of charity in accordance with their faith, including providing foster care and adoption services to children in need.
Under modern theories of good government, and the constitutions provision that congress control spending, Congress is allowed to provide funds to non-governmental agencies that it judges provide a benefit that furthers the general welfare. One example might be providing foster care and adoption services.
Nowhere in the constitution does it say or imply, that religious groups cannot be non-governmental agencies who further the general welfare. Nor does it say that in order to qualify as such a non-government agency, a religious group must adhere to the latest woke dogma regarding homosexuality, transsexuality, inter-species sexuality, nor the BDSM lifestyle. It need not renounce all their beliefs in order to be adjudged “tolerant” enough to be allowed to help widows And orphans.
There are plenty of congregations run by transgender lesbian polygamist bishops and whatnot, who also receive government funding and plenty of taxpayers who would not want their money going to them. As long as they are doing good work, especially helping children, I’m fine with that.
Either get government out of the charity business, go back to government run poor houses so no one is ever offended by this group or that getting funding, or accept that you just can’t get your own way in every particular, all the time.
I recommend the latter, as the most practical and most conducive to growing the heck up.