The Constitution of the USA ; State Constitutions, Charters, etc…… Our friends on the left will simply do what they want and say “oops” later……….. with the media buying right into all of it.

…why not the Church.

Henry the VIII did it and it became the Anglican Church.

Hmmm…what shall we call it here in the good ol’ U.S. of A.?

How ’bout the Murican Church, since we’re all Amuricans.

The arrogance of these thieves in office, who think that society is their play-thing for them to mold and shape as they please! This is flagrant violation of the property rights of the Catholic Church.

As for that cop-out about the financial shenanigans at the parish in Darien, he was charged with embezzlement and went to jail. It would appear that the laws on the books concerning fraud seem to be working just fine. And I know for a fact that the diocese where that priest was arrested has significantly upgraded and modernized it accounting and financial systems in recent years. In fact, that diocese’s financial model is being examined and emulated by dioceses around the country. And this was done on the diocese’s own initiative without the help of the tyrannical state.

If you think about it, in a way this is just a logical extension of the elimination of the charitable deduction. The Left really thinks it is better at distribution of funds than the private sector. Socialism, hell. This is dimestore Marxism wherein all means of production are taken by the state, including charitable fundraising. Granted it failed, and I have semi-faith the courts would have killed it if this crap made it that far, but the mere fact it was considered has demonstrated what challenges us.

Wow. Just wow. I don’t even have to get to the equal protection issue to be appalled.

have been pushing Marxism just as much as college professors and members of the teachers union. Have none of you heard of Liberation Theology?

Imagine if the state could take over Catholic hospitals. Instead of dealing with anti-abortion hospital officials and pesky bishops and archbishops and such, they could just let Planned Parenthood run them all.

Imagine if the state could take over Catholic schools. It end all that annoying debate over vouchers if the Catholic schools became equal to the rest of the government schools.

But of course it would be a different story were some legislature to say they want to take over all the mosques for some trumped-up reason like trying to stop the spread of terrorist preaching.

This is an attempt to weaken the church’s opposition to gay marraige and abortion to get lay people overseeing church operations. Should it be noted that the sponsor of the bill, Andrew McDonald is an openly homosexual legislator that has pushed for recognizing gay marraige in the state.

that seperation of church and state thing only holds until they found a way to get money out of it.

This one is a bit more complicated than Ace of Spades and the rest of the posts suggest.

I’ve managed to find a link to the actual bill, which makes reference to an existing statute. I haven’t found a link to the existing statute which the bill purports to modify, but according to one of the posts I found on this thread the existing statue starts

CONNECTICUT
CHAPTER 598*
RELIGIOUS CORPORATIONS AND SOCIETIES
(D)
ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH

Sec. 33-279. Organization as corporation.

and the existing statute dates back to 1949. So if the legislature can’t pass the change, they should never have been able to pass the 1949 statute. I’m not specifically familiar with the site, so I won’t vouch for the thoughtfulness of the posts there or where they stand politically. But at least the text looks like the sort of thing I would expect to see in a statue.

We should also be careful about raising this as a constitutional issue. Clearly the state has some authority to regulate the manner in which legal entities within its jurisdiction operate. You wouldn’t want the state to not be able to prevent a religious order from funding terrorist simply because it is a religious order (and in fact, I would like to ensure that WHENEVER a religious order does so the state prosecutes that order to the fullest extent of the law).

We look as almost as bad as the other idiots if we don’t look at the whole all of the issue in context. I’m not saying the legislators who proposed this aren’t attempting to bash Catholics, or even that the legislation is a good idea. I’m saying don’t paint with too broad a brush in trying to stop it.

This is not due to the embezzlement , it is due to the Church Threat to SHUT DOWN Catholic Hospitals if they are forced to perform Abortions by passage of the FOCA Free Choice bill.

They said they would shut down if the bill passes and they are not allowed to operate as they have always been and not perform abortions

These Far Left dems are trying to take them over and tell them how to run.