I'm sorry if the Catholic Church has bias/prejudice against helping legally married gay folks, but if you're going to take public money, you need to follow the rules.

All religions are superstitions. Religions have done more net harm than good - all the "charities" are way, way out-weighed by the religious wars.

"Samaritans were hated by the story's target audience, the Jews, to such a degree that the Lawyer did not mention them by name but as "The one who had mercy on him." The Samaritans in turn hated the Jews. The enmity was in essence religious: both groups accused each other of misinterpreting the Torah, of falsely considering themselves God's chosen people, and of conducting false worship, unacceptable to God... But as the story reached those who were unaware of the oppression of the Samaritans, this aspect of the parable became less and less discernible: fewer and fewer people ever heard of them in any context other than as a description. Today the story is often recast in a more modern setting where the people are ones in equivalent social groups known to not interact comfortably.

"Thus cast appropriately, the parable regains its message to modern listeners: namely, that an individual of a social group they disapprove of can exhibit moral behaviour that is superior to individuals of the groups they approve; it also means that not sharing the same faith is no excuse to behave poorly, as there is a universal moral law. Many Christians have used it as an example of Christianity's opposition to racial, ethnic and sectarian prejudice.

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"That it was a priest and then a Levite who first passed by is significant beyond the irony of the situation: people who were expected to help, did not, while someone whom the victim (and Jesus' audience) despised, did. The priest may have had an "excuse" not to help since touching a dying or badly wounded person for someone so "holy", while not forbidden, would be, in our modern vernacular, distasteful due to all the necessary cleansing rituals prescribed by Mosaic Law. The priest therefore decided that being ritually clean and "priestly" was more important than saving someone else's life. Jesus' unspoken challenge to all seems to be: would we help only if it is convenient, or are we willing to go out of our way to show compassion to a stranger?"

Although, to be fair, I doubt the archdiocese cares overmuch about what this "Jesus" guy had to say.

The Charities receive a vast majority of their funding from the taxpayers to begin with. They do very good and important work, but it is not a potent threat to suggest they are doing work the city cannot afford, when we're providing them with most of their funding in the first place. This dilemma, between the Charities' very good work, their public funding (incl. for the CEO's very substantial salary) and their troubling request re: the marriage equality legislation, was the topic of this enlightening exchange between their CEO and Councilman Catania:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_41M_KNlwk&feature=youtube_gdata

We'll just raise taxes on the rich bloodsuckers & use that money instead of kowtowing to some clown in KKK robes in Rome. Fuck these superstitious cocksuckers.

Of course, if I'm a skuzzy well-connected friend of a politico, I'd be setting up a non-profit company to take city money for the social services the Archdiocese had been providing and get ready to make some big bucks with little oversight or need to show any results.