International pro-life advocates gather in Cebu City on November 24 for the 23rd Human Life International (HLI) Congress on Faith, Life, and Family (ASPAC).
International pro-life advocates gather in Cebu City on November 24 for the 23rd Human Life International (HLI) Congress on Faith, Life, and Family (ASPAC).
but on saturday the vatican fired an openly gay priest father charamsa, a polish priest. for the vatican, gay or straight, a priest cannot be in a sexual relationship. father charamsa announced that he had a boyfriend and criticize the catholic church for its silence on gay issues. my decision of coming out is a very personal decision in the homophobic world of the catholic church. cardinals and bishops say they welcome gay people, but they to not think there can be a change in the catholic church s opposition to gay unions and marriage. cardinal nichols in england will be one of the participants in the upcoming discussions. for people who are whoufr they line to describe themselves same sex orientation, gay people, there must be respect and an appreciation of their god
they re debating right back here in this committee is, for the first time in indiana history, amazingly enough, it includes the words sex orientation and gender identity in the language of the bill itself. if this becomes law, it would be a history making bill for the state of indiana, something that many gays and lesbians here want, but certainly the business community as well sees it as bad business, they said, to create special classes of citizens and who can serve who and who can assert what rights in order to not serve others. so this bill this fix, as they ve called it, goes well beyond a clarification and essentially nullifies that part of the original bill that they had that the governor signed into law. we expect they ll pass it here in committee and then both houses and could have it after a very late night on the governor s desk, much later
basis of religion. but iowa congressman steve king is still defending that law. why? king says that sex orientation is what he calls self-professed behavior. and therefore he says business owners might not know just who they can or cannot discriminate against. it s clear in the civil rights section of the code that you can t discriminate against people based upon i m not sure i got the list right, but race, creed, religion, color of skin, those kind of things. and there is nothing mentioned in there on self-professed behavior. the one thing i reference when i say self-professed is how do you know who to discriminate against? they have to tell you. and are they then setting up a case? is this about bringing a grievance or is it actually about a service they would like to have. so what mr. king is saying there is that customers could claim to be gay just to entrap business owners into discriminating against them so they could then seek legal reparations. here is a further question.