BOSTON, June 17, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Massachusetts Catholic Conference is deliberating a move to fire homosexual employees who decide to “marry” their same-sex partners, a Church spokesman said Thursday.
The Massachusetts Catholic Conference’s associate director for policy and research, Daniel Avila, who sets guidelines for the four dioceses within Massachusetts, told Reuters news, “There have been conversations about how one needs to act consistently with the church’s teachings and this has been discussed. The church has long had a position that the people working on its behalf need to display conduct consistent with the beliefs of the church,” he said.
“Practically and theoretically, we have the right to conduct our activities consistent with our practices,” Avila said, emphasizing that the Church can act just as well as speak against the anathema of same-sex marriage.
Massachusetts is currently the only U.S. state to have legalized same-sex “marriage.” The Supreme Judicial Court’s order came into effect in May.
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