It’s one of National Organization for Marriage’s favorite fact-free canards: if same-sex couples are allowed access to civil marriage, religious-based charities will be forced to close up shop. Preserve Marriage Washington, a local arm of NOM trying to block approval of Referendum 74 and thereby repeal Washington’s freedom to marry law, has included this scurrilous [...]

Last week, Think Progress pointed out something very interesting when it comes to the Catholic Church’s pronounced opposition to marriage equality. An argument of those who oppose marriage equality is that it would force religious entities to violate their personal beliefs. One of these entities is the Catholic Charities, which works to place children in [...]

Oh sweet, Holy Jesus. This is a papal face-palm! From By Lou Chibbaro Jr. at the Washington Blade:   Catholic Charities USA, the nation’s largest network of faith-based agencies providing services to the poor, has hired a Washington lobbying firm owned by a gay man to promote a recently launched anti-poverty initiative before Congress and the [...]

Clergy United for Marriage Equality has apparently been effective in sidelining the Protestant radical-right in the Washington, D. C. area.  Now, in what looks to be a desperate “Hail Mary” (if I may say so) maneuver, the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington (D.C.) has threatened to stop taking District contract money for their Catholic Charities organization [...]