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SF Catholic Church Moves Closer To Gay Adoption Ban

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San Francisco's Archbishop George Niederauer has told Catholic Charities to follow the Vatican direction on gay adoption.

"Our teaching on marriage and family life precludes these kinds of adoptions," said Maurice Healy, a spokesperson for the Archbishop.

Last week the Archdiocese of Boston announced it would close its adoption service rather than comply with Massachusetts' equality laws that bar discrimination against gays and lesbians.

Niederauer's directive is his first statement on gay adoption since the Boston announcement and a statement by his predecessor William Levada, now the head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith that the Church opposes giving children to gays and lesbians.

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