This is why tax dollars should not support faith-based charities

[leekohler]

Some of you asked before, so here it is. They should not be picking and choosing.

http://www.advocate.com/exclusive_detail_ektid36167.asp

[scem0]

Very, very sad.

Leblanc isn't [doing so well]. His partner, who was in the last stages of full-blown AIDS, died two weeks after Katrina.

Not legally married, Leblanc as a widower is not eligible for surviving-spouse Social Security benefits. And because he is gay, he is also not eligible for any of the faith-based relief assistance to help him get his life back in order.

A painful reminder of how far our country has to go....

Note: The article has two pages.

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[iGary]

I don't see any concret proof where they did specifically deny anyone?

I see a bunch of woe is me "I'm black, I'm gay, blah de blah" whining, personaly. There were TONS of people left out in the dark because of Katrina, and still are - not just gays or minorities.

The author should be ashamed.

[leekohler]

I don't see any concret proof where they did specifically deny anyone?

I see a bunch of woe is me "I'm black, I'm gay, blah de blah" whining, personaly. There were TONS of people left out in the dark because of Katrina, and still are - not just gays or minorities.

The author should be ashamed.

That said, and I agree with part of what you say- I bet they were hardly made to feel welcome or accepted. I think that's what this article is about.

[miloblithe]

I agree. Crap article. Although I don't doubt for a second that faith-based orgs discriminate against LGBT and other populations.

[scem0]

While I agree that the article doesn't give very good factual evidence, I don't find it hard to believe at all. And the article isn't trying to put down anybody but faith based organizations that discriminated against LGBT people. No one else (other than the dependence being placed on these biased organizations by the current administration). She very clearly said that not all of them were like that. I think the article is fine. It would be one thing if she was denouncing all faith based organizations, but she isn't - just the ones that distributed aid discriminatorily.

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[belvdr]

While I agree that the article doesn't give very good factual evidence ... It would be one thing if she was denouncing all faith based organizations, but she isn't - just the ones that distributed aid discriminatorily.

How does she know any of them did this though? This seems more of an Op-Ed article.

She's pulling things together to make something out of it, in my opinion.

[iGary]

That said, and I agree with part of what you say- I bet they were hardly made to feel welcome or accepted. I think that's what this article is about.

And that I can see for sure.

[Macnoviz]

Some of you asked before, so here it is. They should not be picking and choosing.

http://www.advocate.com/exclusive_detail_ektid36167.asp

very sad indeed, but don't forget that not all faith-based charities are like this. It is really painful for me as a catholic to be part of "the christians" who are against evolution, gay people, abortion, ...

In situations like this, sexual orientation is completely irrelevant.

When Jesus was living today, he would stick up for gay people, not sheepherders.