San Francisco Supervisor Tom Ammiano introduced a resolution on Tuesday calling on Cardinal William Levada, the former archbishop of San Francisco, to reverse a rule that prevents the church’s charity organization from placing children awaiting adoptions with same-sex couples.

The San Francisco Chronicle reports:  "As a gay Catholic," Ammiano said, referring to himself, "Cardinal Levada is everything that is wrong with the Catholic Church.

"If this cardinal would put the kind of energy into ending sexual abuse and homophobia in the church as he puts into persecuting same-sex couples …" Ammiano said, adding, "I think there’s a reason that the office he represents now was once called the Office of the Inquisition."

In San Francisco, everyone is a radical and no one has to have manners.  Ammiano obviously doesn’t want to reach out to Cardinal Levada in a respectful way that might actually move the Cardinal’s position on this issue.  Instead, he’d rather publicly insult the Cardinal.  I’m sure that the ignores most of the noise coming out of San Francisco.  Ammiano certainly deserves to be ignored.

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