This is what they wanted all along…

The state of Illinois just severed ties with Catholic Charities over the new gay marriage law. 2,500 kids get screwed.
We hope you’re happy, libs.
The Chicago Tribune reported:

The state of Illinois has declined to renew its foster care and adoption contracts with Catholic Charities across Illinois, possibly ending a historic public and private partnership initiated by the Roman Catholic Church a half century ago and potentially severing the relationship between 2,500 foster children and their caseworkers.

Lawyers for three of the Catholic Charities agencies will seek an injunction from a Sangamon County judge on Tuesday.

In a letter sent last week to Catholic Charities in the dioceses of Peoria, Joliet, Springfield and Belleville, the Department of Children and Family Services told all four agencies that the state could not accept its signed contracts for the 2012 fiscal year because “your agency has made it clear that it does not intend to comply with the Illinois Religious Freedom Protection and Civil Union Act.”

…”We’re not sure what the state is intending to do or how it’s intending to do it,” Breen said. “It’s a surprise. But it’s also very disturbing. The impact on the 2,500 children in Catholic Charities care will be catastrophic.”

Kendall Marlowe, a spokesman for DCFS, said the state couldn’t agree to do business with partners who have declared their intention to violate state law. Though Catholic Charities in Joliet, Springfield and Peoria had suspended issuing new licenses for foster care and adoptive parents until a ruling was made, they also had signed new contracts for another year of public funding. Those contracts were denied.

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  1. #1 July 11, 2011 at 12:02 pm

    FurryGuyJeans commented:

    Liberalism is held up as the true religion by those on the Left. The Left doesn’t want anyone not in total thrall to their faith. The State is their deity.

  2. #2 July 11, 2011 at 12:06 pm

    Joe Camel commented:

    Trying to force the liberal dribble down everyone’s throat is foolish. But, it does not matter to socialists, as they would rather the whole world implode instead.

  3. #3 July 11, 2011 at 12:06 pm

    lemonaide commented:

    Yet another reason the People’s Republic of Illinois is going down the tubes. Everything and everyone must be sacrificed on the altar of liberalism.

  4. #4 July 11, 2011 at 12:11 pm

    Peggy R commented:

    I believe the Rockford (?) Diocese pre-emptively ended its adoption/foster services for the state last month. They saw this coming. Many children will be hurt.

  5. #5 July 11, 2011 at 12:15 pm

    FurryGuyJeans commented:

    OT, but still related:

    Liberals, Democrats More Likely to Disbelieve Bible, Says Gallup Poll

    Liberals and Democrats are more likely than conservatives, moderates, Republicans and independents to believe the Bible is nothing more than a book of fables and legends made up by man, according to a new Gallup poll.

    Illinois CPS shows they worship in the Church of Man.

  6. #6 July 11, 2011 at 12:15 pm

    RedBeard commented:

    #1: Precisely right. Leftists only want power via statism. They care nothing about the kids. It’s far more important to stand firm in defense of some trendy and bogus “right” than it is to do the proper thing for the kids.

    I’m thankful I don’t live in the Illinois cesspool any longer. Thanks to the overwhelming power of the totally corrupt Chicago political machine, Illinois stands out on a map of the heartland as a gigantic insane asylum.

    My heart goes out to the real people, the downstaters of Illinois, who are held captive by the Chicago machine. All I can suggest is to hire a moving van. And quickly, before the Chicago creeps find a way to ban people from leaving, in order to protect the extortion used on the taxpayers. The creeps need the dough to fund their statist misadventures, in their ever-widening effort to destroy the state from within.

  8. #8 July 11, 2011 at 12:31 pm

    lulu commented:

    Off topic but what are the liberals going to do now that blacks are targeting gays? Who will they prosecute? The protected gays or the protected blacks? My, what a dilemma they’ve created. I guess their mantra “it’s for the children” doesn’t apply to foster kids.

  9. #9 July 11, 2011 at 12:34 pm

    Granny commented:

    The Catholic Church made it clear years ago that they would absolutely not violate the tenets of their faith to provide mandated abortions in their many hospitals under Obamacare (they own about 20% of the medical facilities in the US), so the idea that they will not comply with a state law to provide adoptive children to gay couples is right in line with their beliefs. I wonder just where the State of Illinois intends to put 2500 foster children without landing themselves in court for dereliction of duty and child abuse.

  10. #10 July 11, 2011 at 12:35 pm

    Rob Crawford commented:

    This cached page about the law in question includes this:

    The Act would ensure that religious denominations are not forced to recognize or solemnize civil unions. The Act expressly provides that: “Nothing in this Act shall interfere with or regulate the religious practice of any religious body. Any religious body, Indian Nation or Tribe or Native Group is free to choose whether or not to solemnize or officiate a civil union.” Every religious tradition can decide for itself whether or not to officiate at civil union ceremonies.
    This Act would also not impact faith-based adoption agencies or adoption procedures. The Act does not amend the Adoption Act.

    Whoops! Looks like they lied!

    And this:

    Myth: The Illinois Religious Freedom Protection and Civil Union Act will force religious traditions to recognize and officiate civil unions.

    Fact: The Illinois Religious Freedom Protection and Civil Union Act ensures that religious denominations are not forced to recognize or officiate civil unions. The Act expressly provides that: “Nothing in this Act shall interfere with or regulate the religious practice of any religious body. Any religious body, Indian Nation or Tribe or Native Group is free to choose whether or not to solemnize or officiate a civil union.”

    Whoops! Looks like they lied!

    Impact on the Illinois Faith Community:

    4. Would religious denominations have to recognize and perform civil unions?

    Answer: NO. The Act ensures that religious denominations are not forced to recognize or solemnize civil unions. The Act expressly provides that: “Nothing in this Act shall interfere with or regulate the religious practice of any religious body. Any religious body, Indian Nation or Tribe or Native Group is free to choose whether or not to solemnize or officiate a civil union.”

    5. How would the Act affect religious affiliated adoption agencies?

    Answer: The Act would not impact faith-based adoption agencies or adoption procedures. The Act does not amend the Adoption Act, which governs both public and private adoption agencies.

    Lied again!

    I used to be in favor of civil unions — seemed to be a good way to get the question out of the political realm. However, it’s become apparent that the whole “gay marriage” debate is really about how to bash the Catholic church and punish religious people for their beliefs. This is more evidence for that conclusion — they repeatedly said they would NOT do what they are now doing.

  11. #11 July 11, 2011 at 12:41 pm

    #1AMERICAN commented:

    mooslum odumbo puts another nail in america’s coffin

  12. #12 July 11, 2011 at 12:54 pm

    waicool commented:

    Democrats lied, children died!

  13. #13 July 11, 2011 at 12:58 pm

    justbelieveit commented:

    Of course they’re happy. These children are throw aways, the ones that didn’t make it to the abortion clinic like they were supposed to. They could care less if anything happens to them, until it is election time then they drag them out….all for the children. Liberlism is a mental disorder, to put it mildly.

  14. #14 July 11, 2011 at 1:00 pm

    A_Nonny_Mouse commented:

    Do I recall hearing about “guaranteed religious exemptions” in the QM law? (The M stands for marriage, I ain’t-a-sayin’ what the Q is for).

    Whoops! Just read #9 above, thank for the info Rob Crawford.

    So that must mean that the Illinois Progressives think they’ve packed the courts sufficiently to wage lawfare against mainstream churches. (Trust me- the religious exemptions in the nation’s various QM laws are only temporary –a hudna, if you will, until Evil feels powerful enough to attack The Holy. The whole point is to GUT religion, until all worship is for {–not Allah, silly!} the Great and Powerful Government.)

    We conservatives can again say, “I TOLD you so!” Not that it’s any comfort. (Damn and blast you, you wicked Prog-tards, that’s MY COUNTRY you’re destroying with your infernal meddling with decency and standards…)

  15. #15 July 11, 2011 at 1:02 pm

    OBAMANATION @ NOTRE DAME commented:

    The Church infested with leftist hacks. http://www.PewSitter.com

  16. #16 July 11, 2011 at 1:10 pm

    Mikey commented:

    Sooooo kids are going to suffer because the Catholic Church refuses to fall at the altar of liberalism. This is just another knife in the decency that used to thrive in America and is now in its last gasps thanks to liberalism and statism. The left is just trying to take God out of America. Christians, just keep praying. We are on the right side. Believe it.

  17. #17 July 11, 2011 at 1:24 pm

    Ceroth commented:

    Well State of Illinois, how does it feel to possibly make some little kids cry. Must make you feel so big. Jerks.

  18. #18 July 11, 2011 at 1:29 pm

    chris commented:

    Look how quickly we are going to a world in which Catholics, and other religious denominations, are going to be prohibited from adopting children unless they renounce their faith while homosexuals are being made into a favored class.

  19. #19 July 11, 2011 at 1:38 pm

    joe commented:

    this isn’t a surprise. the gays are a fascist movement whose main goal is to eliminate the rights of christians (we all know they’ll never say boo to the muslims) who disagree with them.

  20. #20 July 11, 2011 at 1:41 pm

    Big T Machine commented:

    Why does the State of Illinois hate poor and minority children. I have been told that it is immoral for a Catholic like myself to vote for conservatives. They throw their social gospel in my face. Clearly the Democratic Left worries more about their wealthy gay bankrollers than about the poor, the destitude and the needy.

  21. #21 July 11, 2011 at 1:56 pm

    Rhinestone Suderman commented:

    Yes, Rob Crawford, #10, it looks as if they lied.

    Some of us suspected this, all along.

    Looks like all their talk about tolerance, and how, mercy me, of course religious institutions wont be punished for not going along with this, oh, nonononononononononono, was just a load of hooey.

    How long before they start suing churches that won’t perform same-sex ceremonies?

  22. #22 July 11, 2011 at 2:23 pm

    redpillpatriot commented:

    Seems the invented “seperation of church and state” is actually seperation of christianity and state!

    The left loves, immorality, Islam (same thing), and everything unholy!

    We wouldn’t want those children to learn right from wrong, then there wouldn’t be any more democrats!

  23. #23 July 11, 2011 at 2:33 pm

    archer52 commented:

    “It’s the law.” It is the slimy rock of an excuse that allows people who know better to crawl under and hide. If the “law” was that no black people could adopt, would the Catholic Church agree? No, of course not, but the “state” would find them at fault regards, because they are the supreme arbiters of what is right and wrong.

    It is amazing to me to witness what many people have wondered for years. How is it that people in Europe stood silently by while governments passed more and more horrific laws targeting their own neighbors. Here, the state is punishing children because THEY feel their will is superior to that of the people. Why can’t both exist? Why can’t the state say that the law, politically correct as it is, is the law, but shouldn’t affect a good working relationship that saves kids.

    Because it is never about the children, really. It has always been about control, power and destruction.

    Now you know how Nazi Germany became Nazi Germany so quickly. People are sheep.

    As it has been said before-

    “In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up.”

  24. #24 July 11, 2011 at 3:28 pm

    dunce commented:

    Many churches provide aid to illegal aliens in violation of state and federal laws and these children need no citizenship and neither do their parents but no state has banned them for that so it depends on which laws are ignored. This all fits with the socialist plan in that they want people dependent on the govt. for everything. Limiting access to adoption services will have the effect of increasing the use of abortion to get rid of inconvenient children so we can be spared the casy anthony really late term type of abortions. In their eyes the quicker you kill the children the better. Sexual perverts not having children is what God intended or he would have made us hermaphrodites.

  25. #25 July 11, 2011 at 3:38 pm

    bg commented:

    ++

    Hizb ut-Tahrir: Islam Has Replaced Communism as Top U.S. Enemy

    what, like we didn’t know??

    btw.. that title alone is in and of itself a tad deceiving.. as i have been
    presenting evidence, not to mention preaching, that Islam & Marx have
    morphed into what i call IslaMarxism for years now..

    but heh, what do i know.. *sigh*

    ==

  27. #27 July 11, 2011 at 4:01 pm

    bobdog commented:

    Easy. Close these facilities, lock the door, bus the kids to the state house, and WALK AWAY.

    Maybe the state can just randomly marry these kids to each other or something.

    Or drive them to the nearest abortion clinic and have them killed.

    This really ticks me off. When you start using kids as pawns to force a political agenda, it’s just not just wrong, it’s reprehensible.

  28. #28 July 11, 2011 at 4:04 pm

    bg commented:

    ++

    apologies re: #25

    correct link re: IslaMarxism

    [Diverse forms of Marxism agree that social ills result from oppression of the poor by the wealthy (class conflict) but differ on strategies to overcome poverty and establish social harmony. Marxism is also associated with atheism, based on Karl Marx ‘s view that religion is used by rulers to legitimate the status quo, causing many Muslims to reject Marxism. But due to the affinity between Marxist and Islamic ideals of social justice, some Muslims adopted various forms of Marxism from the 1940s, reaching peak popularity in the 1960s and 1970s. Their analyses often ignored materialism and atheism, rejecting the idealist view that religion is independent of historical conditions and holding instead that many of its manifestations are related to the societies in which it operates. Islam in this view ideally meets the needs of society and can both accommodate and guide social change.]

    and link to #32 @ link as well..

    ==

  29. #30 July 11, 2011 at 5:30 pm

    Radegunda commented:

    The whole “gay marriage” racket was never really about giving gay couples something they don’t already have (including things that single individuals don’t have either). It was always about coercing everybody else to redefine “normal.”

    The lobby used to say, “Isn’t it better for children to have two loving same-sex parents than none at all?” Now in Illinois they’re saying it’s better that children have no caring homes than to show any preference for a traditional and normal male + female home.

    Leftists are truly sick people.

  30. #31 July 11, 2011 at 5:48 pm

    Molon Labe commented:

    Boy if you consider the job the state does with education I can’t wait till they have total control raising children.

    We need more serial killers, perverts, and maniacs running loose and the state is just the one to give them to us.

  31. #32 July 11, 2011 at 5:56 pm

    marsouin commented:

    For any charity to be connected with ANY level of government is making the pact with Satan himself. This is a blessing in disguise for this Catholic charity. Any organization, no matter how noble its intentions in the beginning, will eventually succumb to the venality stemming for political association.

  32. #33 July 11, 2011 at 6:28 pm

    Rcl commented:

    GREAT NEWS! Why would the Catholic Church want to have any connections to a bunch of worthless lying bastards like the Illinois government? No traditional or conservative private organization should take penny 1 from the fascist pigs in the United States government either. To hell with them. It’s better to stand alone than kneel in servitude.

  33. #34 July 11, 2011 at 8:52 pm

    Old One commented:

    A substantial majority of Catholics including thr devout voted for the kool-aid peddler Obahammed 7 many bishops cheered the hopium train to victory in 2008 because Bush and the republicans were cruel to the welfare state.
    More than a few German clergy rode with Adolph too.

  34. #35 July 11, 2011 at 11:03 pm

    The Elector of Saxony commented:

    “Sooooo kids are going to suffer because the Catholic Church refuses to fall at the altar of liberalism.”

    Not entirely accurate. The Church in America basically accepts all progressive doctrines about unfettered illegal immigration, race-based quotas, limitless welfare, and of course, Socialized medicine. Gay Marriage and Abortion are the only things they have in common with the Right, and not all the Right believes these are political issues. Even many in the Church hierarchy would abandon these principles if they thought they could get a Socialist utopia in the bargain.

    Even these principles will end up being fudged for the sake of “the worker” “the migrant” “the poor” “the minority”. Most sermons these days are given in support of one of the aforementioned topics. The Church is just another anti-White, anti-American organization that supports virtually 90% of the Obama agenda. If the Obama got everything he wants, except those 2 things, the Church would be thrilled.

    The Church wants to lie down with the snakes to get “social justice”, then hope they can preach and pray the Left into seeing the light on gay marriage/adoption and abortion. All they are going to get is snakebitten. I’m a believing Roman Catholic, but I disagree with most of the current, non-theological positions.

  35. #37 July 12, 2011 at 12:37 am

    el polacko commented:

    it’s pretty simple: you take government money, you adhere to the laws. if anyone is to blame for harming children in this case, it is the catholic church. that they would rather make a public show of being anti-gay (while, ironically, having historically been a sanctuary from a hostile society for gay men and lesbians) rather than place kids in good, loving homes that happen to be same-gender is a sin.

  36. #38 July 12, 2011 at 9:55 am

    Doug Pearson commented:

    To: el polacko

    You assert the Church is anti-gay because she recognizes only the historic, traditional Christian definition of marriage as being between 1 man and 1 woman.

    Question for you… the Church also rejects the idea of marriage between siblings, would you call the Church anti-family?

    Of course you wouldn’t because that would be a stupid thing to say… almost as stupid as saying the Church is anti-gay because she believes what she has always taught about marriage.

    I do, however, agree with you that if you take money from someone for a job that you do so under their terms… or you don’t get the job.

    Doug

  38. #40 July 12, 2011 at 12:46 pm

    bg commented:

    ++

    #48 + 49 & 50, if not, #51 & 52, then #49 & 50..

    thank you..

    ==

  39. #41 July 12, 2011 at 4:33 pm

    dnb commented:

    but it’s ‘for the children,’ the liberal mantra for everything.

  40. #42 July 12, 2011 at 4:36 pm

    dnb commented:

    Could someone provide the stats for the percentage of foster children in the care of gay couples? Would like to know if this is a matter of throwing out the baby with the bath water.

  42. #44 July 13, 2011 at 8:51 pm

    esurio commented:

    Proof #1 that gay marriage hurts children. Start the list today, the number of incidents will grow exponentially and you don’t want to loose track.

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