Catholic Fire

By John Jalsevac SAN FRANCISCO, CA, May 29, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Bay Area adoption/foster care agency, Family Builders, partnering with the City and County of San Francisco, has launched a controversial ad campaign in the hope of attracting more homosexual couples to adopt children. Two of the posters that form the core of the campaign feature homosexual couples together with their adopted children. The signs either use the slogan "Family Planning," with the phrase beneath, "Our family was no accident-we planned for it," or the slogan "Intelligent Design," with the phrase, "Before we started our family we considered all the options." Family Builders is the adoption agency that San Francisco's Catholic Charities partnered with last year after the government enforced legislation mandating that all adoption agencies permit homosexual adoptions. Rather than follow the lead of Boston's Catholic archdiocese, which closed its adoption ...

Now I know why I am so grateful to God for relocating us in Kansas rather than California when my husband was job-hunting a couple of years ago. It seems that in the state of California - more specifically, San Francisco, the United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that city employers can completely censor the terms "natural family," "marriage" and "family values" as hate speech . Hate speech? You've got to be kidding! Is there a distortion of the truth here or what? These are sacred words - hate speech?!!! I must be missing something here. I can hardly believe that in this Christian nation of ours that anything like this could ever happen. The 2003 lawsuit by Rederford and Christy claimed the city's anti-discrimination policy "promotes homosexuality" and "openly denounces Christian values." When I was in grade school, we learned about Communism and how evil it was. We read comic books that explained that Commun...