This just moved on the AP wire:
BOSTON (AP) — The Boston Archdiocese’s Catholic Charities said
Friday it would stop providing adoption services because state law
requires them to consider gays and lesbians as parents.
The social services arm of the Roman Catholic archdiocese has
provided adoption services for about a century. But it says state
law allowing gays to adopt runs counter to church teachers on
homosexuality.
“The world was very different when Charities began this
ministry at the threshold of the twentieth-century,” the Rev. J.
Bryan Hehir and trustees chairman Jeffrey Kaneb said in a joint
statement. “The world changed often and we adapted the ministry to
meet changing times and needs. At all times we sought to place the
welfare of children at the heart of our work.
“But now, we have encountered a dilemma we cannot resolve,”
they said.
The state’s four Catholic bishops said earlier this month that
the law threatens the church’s religious freedom by forcing it to
do something it considers immoral.
Eight members of Catholic Charities board later stepped down in
protest of the bishops’ stance. The 42-member board had voted
unanimously in December to continue considering gay households for
adoptions.





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