Wednesday, April 05, 2006
THE LAWSUIT GAME WORKS BOTH WAYS
A Catholic civil rights group announced Monday that it sued the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in federal court for condemning the Catholic Church's opposition to adoptions by same-sex couples.
The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco by the New York-based Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights and two Catholic citizens of San Francisco.
The league said the suit claims that a resolution passed by the supervisors on March 21 violates the constitutional First Amendment guarantee of freedom of religion and separation of church and state.
It's good to see the Church defend Herself!
The Thomas More Center, a Michigan-based public interest law firm representing the league, said the lawsuit contends that the First Amendment "forbids an official purpose to disapprove of a particular religion, religious beliefs or of religion in general."
Robert Muise, the center lawyer handling the case, said, "The Constitution forbids hostility toward any religion."
Separation of Church and State works both ways.
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