It's Religious Doctrine until there's Money Involved (link)

[_The Mighty Builder]

http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=1016&s ... id=queue-4

DENVER (AP) - It was a startling assertion that seemed an about-face from church doctrine: A Catholic hospital arguing in a Colorado court that twin fetuses that died in its care were not, under state law, human beings.

When the two-year-old court filing surfaced last month, it triggered an avalanche of criticism – because the legal argument seemed to plainly clash with the church's centuries-old stance that life begins at conception.

But it is also now fueling an already raging debate in Colorado and beyond about whether fetuses should have legal rights and, if so, what kind.

On Monday, the hospital and the state's bishops released a statement acknowledging it was "morally wrong" to make the legal argument.

News of the wrongful death lawsuit came as Colorado lawmakers weigh how far they should go in penalizing acts that harm a fetus, and some worry that the case could diminish the Catholic Church's credibility in advocating more rights for the unborn.

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Luke 16. If they can argue that under the law, then it's not hypocrisy. They may believe the fetuses are human beings, but the state doesn't and state law is what's trying to be enforced on them.

[_Darth J]

Luke 16. If they can argue that under the law, then it's not hypocrisy. They may believe the fetuses are human beings, but the state doesn't and state law is what's trying to be enforced on them.

That being the case, why is the LDS Church opposed to same-sex marriage?