<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> (Ellen goes into interviewer mode)--So, Ms. Sudell, what is your
> opinion of the President's Faith-Based Initiative?
I am as free to give my opinion of the Faith-Based Initiative as
Scott McClellan was free to give his opinions of the President's
policies while he was on the White House payroll.
IOW, ask me off-line. :/
And while we're
> on the topic, what is your opinion of Catholic Charities'
> discontinuing adoptions because they are required to allow gay
> adoptions (at least in Massachusetts)?
My understanding is that Catholic Charities was perfectly willing to
permit individual gay/lesbian adoptions as long as the organization
didn't have to take a public position for or agin the idea. As soon
as Massachusetts threw down the gauntlet and said "Make up your
minds," the organization said, "No thanks," and pulled out of the
state.
I think I remember reading that the no-more-adoptions orders
actually came from somewhere higher up in church hierarchy. Which
doesn't surprise me in the least.
>
> (I had major grammar/punctuation issues with the last sentence--
> should it be Charities' discontinuing adoptions, or Charities
> discontinuing OF gay adoptions, or Charities discontinuation of
gay
> adoptions, or something else? I hate sentences like that, and I
was
> too lazy to reword it).
>
I feel your pain. However, I am also feeling lazy, and therefore I
will not even bother to think about what the most grammatically-
correct construction of the sentence might be. If I hopped aboard
that particular train of thought, I probably would be stuck on it
for hours.
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