(December 11, 2013 at 1:40 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-ol...lp00000592
The church isn't anti-gay, they're just staunchly against gay marriage and think that anyone having gay sex is sinning against God.
Quote:The list goes on. The Catholic archdioceses of Boston and Washington, D.C., ended adoption programs rather than comply with laws that prevented discrimination based on sexual orientation. Some dioceses have issued guidelines that prohibit children of same-sex partners from attending Catholic schools. Effective Catholic schoolteachers who are gay have been fired. Communion has been denied. Bishops have threatened to pull support for immigration reform if same-sex couples are recognized as families. And one prominent American Cardinal even compared LGBT activists to Ku Klux Klan members.
Even the Tea Party wants the Gay vote - and the church wants the gays to give money too - why is that surprising?
As more and more people move away from religion - especially the highly educated (who also are higher paid) - the church has no choice but to try to get money every way they can.
AS the religions lose the money base of Western Europe - where active participation in religion is waning - they are only mostly growing in areas where they cannot actually get funding from. So - as you can see plainly in the USA - churches are closing - being abandoned when their aging population dies out - churches are combining - and all the major religions have shortages of ministers and priests.
IF this was your business - you would either attempt to broaden your base - or sell out.
