Since Catholic Bishops in Michigan appear to be AWOL, the Thomas More Law Center has taken the initiative to proclaim the truth:
ANN ARBOR, MI – Supporters of Michigan House Bill 4259, which would legalize adoptions by homosexual partners, point to the lack of public opposition by the “Michigan Catholic Conference” as reason for hope that the “Bill” will pass the legislature and be enacted into law. Free Press Columnist Brian Dickerson recently wrote, “The church’s neutrality underlines the fact that adoption and gay marriage are separate issues, practically as well as legally.”
To counter this false impression, the Thomas More Law Center revealed today that it has sent a letter to over one hundred members of the Michigan state House of Representatives informing them of the Catholic Church’s unequivocal opposition to adoptions by homosexual partners. . .
The Law Center’s letter extensively quotes from a 2003 document issued by the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith headed by then Cardinal Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI. The document entitled Considerations regarding Proposals to Give Legal Recognition to unions Between Homosexual Persons, intended to give direction to not only Catholic politicians, but also to all persons committed to defending the common good of society, states:
“Allowing children to be adopted by persons in such [homosexual] unions would actually mean doing violence to these children, in the sense that their condition of dependency would be used to place them in an environment that is not conducive to their full human development.”
This is great that someone has come to the forefront of this grossly immoral issue, however, should not all faithful Catholics be gravely concerned that the shepherds are nowhere to be found? Have they abandoned the flock like the fearful and timid hireling? Perhaps they're shopping for fashionable and suitable millstones?
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