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The Hypocricy of Catholic Charities

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Boston Catholic Charities decision to close it’s adoption services rather than comply with state guidelines that require them to consider all good people as equal when placing children is yet another reminder of the remorseless attitude of this Pope and his Curia toward the Lesbian and Gay community. It is not the old “love the sinner” sort of thing that they parroted in the past, it is an insistence that we be marginalized, considered disordered and unfit. The Church’s specious arguement that it must adhere to it’s teachings could be considered valid if they actually did strictly adhere. They will place children with couples who are divorced and remarried, a union that the Church does not recognize and in their eyes constitutes an adulterous relationship. “Adultery,” by the Church’s definition, in the Church’s curious vision, is a less sinful and less harmful thing to be exposed to than to a

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Community significance

“The Hypocricy of Catholic Charities” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to religion and morality, while also engaging education and youth. Such accounts can document how an issue was understood and experienced from within the period or community being discussed.

Historical significance

As a publication record from 2006 at Transadvocate.com, “The Hypocricy of Catholic Charities” provides dated evidence of how religion and morality was being argued in relation to education and youth. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.

Policy significance

The article’s strongest policy connection is family law and child welfare. It links that institutional frame to religion and morality and education and youth, making it potentially useful for tracing how an argument moves from description or history into law, regulation, administration, or public practice.

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Themes

  1. 1
    Religion and moralityTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict
    100%
  2. 2
    Education and youthTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
    60%
  3. 3
    Family and relationshipsTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
    17%
  4. 4
    Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
    13%
  5. 5
    Violence, safety, and dehumanizationTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict
    10%

Academic framing

  1. 1100%

Policy framing

  1. 1100%

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Relationship among the ranked article themes The central circle is the primary theme. Line styles are defined in the relationship key below the diagram. Religion and morality to Education and youth: Overlapping theme
Education and youth
Religion and morality to Family and relationships: Separate but related
Family and relationships
Religion and morality to Community and organizing: Separate but related
Community and organizing
Religion and morality to Violence, safety, and dehumanization: Related theme in the same family
Violence, safety, and dehumanization
Religion and moralityRank 1
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  • Related theme in the same family
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This article appeared 1 year(s) before the theme reached its highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2007.

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