The world's gone crazy

Just what is so wrong with a Catholic organization being true to the teachings of the Catholic Church?

And now people are going on about how it's such a tragedy, which it is. It's a tragedy that a group has to completely stop providing a desparately needed service for children because they cannot otherwise operate within the bounds of their Catholic mission. People say that same-sex couples are being discriminated against; I say that Catholics who want to be true to their conscience are being discriminated against.

And isn't adoption all about excluding people? Thus, the interviews and the long application process? It's about deciding what is a good home to send children into. And according to Catholic teaching, that's a home with a mother and a father. It would be wrong for a Catholic to place a child in a home considered to be dangerous mentally, developmentally, and spiritually. But because Catholic Charities could be forced to do this, they have decided not to place children at all. And people are freaking out!

Why, oh why, do people get so outraged when Catholics teach Catholic things? They're all, "It's okay to be a Catholic, because everyone's right and finds their own truth, but when you actually start living like a Catholic... well, that's completely different!"

I would just like to say right now that I am sick and tired of all the people who claim to be so tolerant of every belief system except for the one that claims their belief system sucks. "I don't believe anyone should have the right to tell anyone else what's right and what's wrong," they say, "and because you're trying to tell me what's right and wrong, you're wrong." Hullo!

I will not deny anyone the right to believe whatever they want, but I'm not going to call it right, and I'm not going to stop trying to convince them that they're wrong. And quite frankly, I have a lot more respect for people who try to convince me that I'm wrong than I do for people who want to assume that everybody's right. They, at least, understand what truth is.