Pope Benedict seriously needs to "clean house" at the USCCB.More startling evidence has been unearthed about the Catholic Campaign for Human development that shows a disturbing pattern of cooperation between the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and groups that advocate abortion and same-sex marriage.
Two reports, released yesterday by the American Life League (ALL) and Bellarmine Veritas Ministry (BVM), reveal that the Center for Community Change (CCC), an organization recommended for support by the USCCB, has consistently taken positions opposed to the bishops' teachings on abortion, marriage, contraception, and sexuality.
Our bishops tell us to "lend our support" to CCC. Here is only a partial list of what these reports have revealed about the Center for Community Change:
1. CCC's executive director, Deepak Bhargava, states that they are fighting for "lifting restrictions on women's access to health services." (Bhargava was also a featured speaker hosted by the USCCB at a three-day conference.)
2. CCC joined the "Stop Stupak" coalition through its "Campaign for Community Change" arm, explaining, "Of course, no issue is more critical to women's economic opportunity than the ability to choose when and under what personal circumstances to raise children."
3. CCC is a member of the National Coalition for Immigrant Women's Rights (NCIWR). NCIWR requires all members to sign an agreement supporting, among other things, "Reproductive health care coverage financed through public funds provided to all immigrant women regardless of legal and economic status," as well as "equitable access to confidential and non-coercive family planning services and contraceptive equity."
4. Sean Thomas-Brietfield, Director of CCC's Taproots Project, wrote an article promoting consensual "polyamory," or "relationships where there is no expectation of fidelity."
5. CCC developed leaders for same-sex marriage advocacy and homosexual activists through its Generation Change program. In 2008, CCC received a $50,000 grant for leadership training from one of the chief funders of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered) causes, the Gill Foundation.
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