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Catholic group sues San Francisco supervisors
Apr. 04 (CWNews.com) - The Thomas More Law Center has filed a federal lawsuit against the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, charging that the city officials engaged in an unconstitutional attack on the Catholic Church by condemning Church teaching on homosexuality.
The lawsuit-- filed on behalf of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights and two San Francisco Catholic citizens-- is a response to the resolution passed unanimously by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors on March 21, describing Church teachings as "hateful" and "absolutely unacceptable," and urging local Church officials to "defy" a Vatican directive forbidding Church involvement in adoption by same-sex couples.
That resolution, the lawsuit charges, was a “startling attack by government officials on the Catholic Church, Catholic moral teaching and beliefs, and those who adhere to the tenets of the Catholic faith, in violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution.” That overt expression of hostility to Catholic teaching, the suit argues, "sends a clear message to Plaintiffs and others who are faithful adherents to the Catholic faith that they are outsiders, not full members of the political community and an accompanying message that those who oppose Catholic religious beliefs, particularly with regard to homosexual unions and adoptions by homosexual partners, are insiders, favored members of the political community.”
Richard Thompson, the president of the Thomas More Law Center, observed: “The demagoguery and virulent words of this resolution are reminiscent of the anti- Catholic bigotry of the Ku Klux Klan and the Know Nothings, which marred our Nation’s earlier history. San Francisco may as well have put up signs at the City limits: ‘Faithful Catholics Not Welcomed.’”