Catholic Churches Hold Special Collection to Fight Gay Marriage (ME)

[MountainLaurel]

The campaign to overturn Maine's new gay-marriage law is heating up within the Catholic Church.

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland asked parishioners to donate in a second collection on Sunday.

Church officials said they need money to help repeal the state's same-sex marriage law.

Officials said donations like the ones collected at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception will go to pay for television ads aimed at overturning the state law that legislators passed last spring.

http://www.wmtw.com/cnn-news/20899670/detail.html

Here's a link to the local story:

http://updates.mainetoday.com/updates/collection-taken-to-fight-gay-marriage

:puke:

[Ian David]

1. This they'll fight for, but not health care reform? Oh, right. Those fuckers OWN HOSPITALS. n/t

[LAGC]

13. No doubt.

They own hospitals and get massive subsidies on the tax-payers dime and they turn around and politicize issues with their tax-free donations.

Oh, but they are so charitable... and that excuses all their bigotry. NOT!

[Nikki Stone1]

14. One owned by nuns in the South is fighting healthcare tooth and nail

The church feeds on the same human misery as the corporations.

[SoCalNative]

2. Time to start taxing these bastards

[MountainLaurel]

3. Amen

Pun intended.

They're awful close to that line between issues advocacy and being directly involved in elections.

[Arugula Latte]

6. Yep.

A pox on them.

[closeupready]

17. I fully agree. No reason whatsoever to be subsidizing hatemongers

with taxpayers' hard-earned money.

[WeDidIt]

4. Time to pull the 501c3 status

They are no longer qualified for it.

[Critters2]

12. They can take a stand on issues, just not on partisan matters/elections.

The IRS has consistently interpreted its rules this way. This is why the UUA and UCC can advocate FOR gay rights.

[valerief]

5. When are they gonna hold special collections against pedophiles, especially pedophile clerics? nt

[Arugula Latte]

7. Shhhh ... Child rape is just fine and dandy if it's done by Holy Men.

Consenting adults loving each other, though? Why, that's just SICK!

[valerief]

8. Yep, that's the message they're sending! nt

[dflprincess]

18. The nut case Catholics over at the forums at Catholic.com

(and by nutcase I mean the ones who fear Pope Benedict may be a closet liberal and the Boston archdiocese is to be slammed for giving Ted Kennedy a Catholic funeral)

think all pedophile priests are/were homosexuals. They completely ignore questions about priests who molested girls (as did the media, but there were plenty) as well as any comments about most pedophiles/pederasts regardless of which sex they molest tend to identify themselves as heterosexuals.

I go over there now and again to reenforce my lapsed Catholic state.

[Speck Tater]

9. If you disagree with them can you take money OUT of the collection basket when it comes around?

Kind of like the DU unrecommend?

[Ian David]

15. Good idea! Just put in a note that says, "Unrec." n/t

[ShortnFiery]

10. Now I know why I stopped attending Mass. eom

[Toasterlad]

11. Wonder Where the Religion Apologists Are?

You know, the ones that pop up every time some pastor or church says something evil. The ones who say "those aren't REAL christians!"

Yes, Virginia, they ARE real christians. All the money you donate to your church is put to exactly the same use as the fundies' money: to fund anti-gay, anti-women legislation.

[BuyingThyme]

16. The Catholic Church is a foreign government and their officers should be deported for

waging war against us.

[Initech]

19. RIP separation of church and state.

The last thing we need in this country is another church sponsored prop h(8).