Catholic World News: Sullivan, Tatchell & Barney Frank Want a Weakened Church
What a triad! Three gay men, political advocates and friends I like and mostly admire; Sullivan on the right, Frank in the middle and Tatchell on the left -- all lumped together by the Catholic World News site today. (I say mostly admire because there are times I object to Andrew's conservatism or Barney's Democratic Party positions, but that's besides the point today.)
From the Catholic World News posting this morning on a move in the UK over gays adopting kids:
Trade places with the other team for a moment and imagine how -- if you were an Andrew Sullivan or a Peter Tatchell or the editor of the Tablet -- you'd want the dominoes to fall. In their position, you want a weakened Church, you want a Church cut off from her own teaching, you want a purely ceremonial association of off-duty social workers presided over by moral geldings. The adoption discrimination ruse is a gambit too good to pass up. If you understood progress the way Barney Frank understands it, you realize the Catholic Church is your prime obstacle in the path forward.
This Catholic news service sure comes across as hysterical and desperate to put thoughts and words into the mouths of Sullivan, Tatchell and Frank, and that desperation does much to undermine the news service's arguments.
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