USA Bishops against same-sex marriage

THE MOST POWERFUL opponent fighting against same-sex marriage is the Catholic Church. In 2003 the USA Catholic Bishops Conference voted against same-sex marriage while at the same time they were covering-up the costly priest-pedophilia crime -- starting in Boston with Cardinal Law $89 Million, culminating with Cardinal Mahony paying the most $660 Million, tallying at $3 Billion up to today, and still counting.

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Boston Cardinal O'Mailley strategy

The Catholic Church has cultivated a campaign of harassment against Catholic legislators who support marriage rights for same-sex couples.

For months, the state’s four bishops — led by Boston archbishop Seán O’Malley — have mounted an unprecedented campaign to sway the votes of Catholic politicians on Beacon Hill. It began in earnest in June 2003, with the release of the bishops’ first statement denouncing same-sex marriage. On November 18, 2003, when the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) determined that the ban on civil marriage for same-sex couples was unconstitutional, Archbishop O’Malley urged state legislators to thwart the SJC ruling. Within a week, he and his fellow bishops issued a joint statement opposing the historic ruling, which was either read from the pulpit or distributed at mass across the state — or both. On January 16, the bishops mailed a four-page, glossy brochure to one million Bay State Catholics urging them to work for passage of a constitutional amendment that would bar lesbian and gay couples from marrying. O’Malley has even aligned himself with radical evangelical Christians in the battle against gay marriage. On February 8, the Sunday before the first day of the constitutional convention (ConCon), the archbishop addressed an anti-gay-marriage rally on the Boston Common organized by Your Catholic Voice and featuring representatives from national right-wing groups like Concerned Women for America and the Family Research Council. He asked the 3000-strong audience to "stand together" to "affirm marriage and family" and then read from a February 6 statement opposing gay marriage that had been signed by 3000 religious leaders statewide.

New York July 11, 2007

Bishops urge rejection of ‘radical’ same sex marriage proposal

New York’s bishops are urging Catholics throughout the state to contact their state legislators after the State Assembly, acting on a bill proposed by Gov. Eliot Spitzer, voted 85-61 in favor of legalizing same-sex marriage.

Washington DC

WASHINGTON, April 23, 2004 — About 50 prominent religious leaders, including seven Roman Catholic cardinals and about a half-dozen archbishops, have signed a petition in support of a constitutional amendment blocking same-sex marriage.

Organizers of the petition said it was in part an effort to revive the groundswell of opposition to same-sex marriage that helped bring many conservative voters to the polls in some pivotal states in 2004. The signers include many influential evangelical Protestants, a few rabbis and an official of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

But both the organizers and gay rights groups said what was striking about the petition was the direct involvement by high-ranking Roman Catholic officials, including 16 bishops. Although the church has long opposed same-sex unions, and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops had previously endorsed the idea of a constitutional amendment banning such unions, it was evangelical Protestants who generally led the charge when the amendment was debated in 2004.


ROME is where the HATE IS

The Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith launched a renewed global attack against same-sex marriage today with the release of a document titled Considerations regarding proposals to give legal recognition to unions between homosexual persons. The Catholic Church's hateful document comes from the oldest of the Curia's nine congregations. Founded in 1542 by Pope Paul III, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith was originally called the Sacred Congregation of the Universal Inquisition: the same people responsible for torturing and burning victims to death in the name of God.

The Considerations is authored by the infamous Cardinal Ratzinger, a mean-spirited person known for an authoritarian streak that is appropriate for a grand Inquisitor. The document admits that it does "not contain new doctrinal elements" but that it is intended to "provide arguments drawn from reason which could be used by Bishops in preparing more specific interventions" and it is also "intended to give direction to Catholic politicians by indicating the approaches to proposed legislation in this area ..."

Indeed, in March, the Vatican released a new glossary of sexual terms which said homosexuals were not normal and countries which allowed gay marriages were inhabited by people with "profoundly disordered minds" (Reuters, July 31, 2003). Much of the twisted and contorted logic found in the Considerations can be found in previous shameful spewing of the Vatican, including:


Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons ( October 1986)

Pope Orders Politicians To Discriminate According To "Divine Plan"( Address of his Holiness Pope John Paul II November 4, 2000)

Family, Marriage and "De Facto" Unions, Pontifical Council For the Family (November 21, 2000)

The low points of the Considerations

"Homosexuality is a troubling moral and social phenomenon," the Considerations states in its introduction paragraph, noting in particular the "greater concern" of homosexual unions leading to the adoption of children. The rant continues: "homosexual acts go against the natural moral law ... Under no circumstances can they be approved."

The paper goes on to say that homosexuality is "an anomaly" that is "a serious depravity" and "intrinsically disordered" and "objectively disordered."

But in case you get the wrong idea from these hate-mongers, homosexuals "must be accepted with respect, compassion and sensitivity." But then a few paragraphs later this sentiment is unmasked: "The Principles of respect and non-discrimination cannot be invoked to support legal recognition of homosexual unions."

Such is the sincerity of the Inquisition.

"Therefore, discreet and prudent actions can be effective," the paper says. These include pressuring governments to make their secular laws conform to Church dogma, and "above all, to avoid exposing young people to erroneous ideas" that would "contribute to the spread of the phenomenon". Lest we forget, this unholy tirade says, "Those who would move from tolerance to the legitimization of specific rights for cohabiting homosexual persons need to be reminded that approval or legalization of evil is something far different from the toleration of evil."

Same-sex marriage, the Vatican says correctly, will "modify the younger generation's perception and evaluation of forms of behaviour." The Catholic Church wishes to create new generations of homophobes and bigots.

"Allowing children to be adopted by persons living in such unions would actually mean doing violence to these children, in the sense that their condition of dependency would be used to place them in an environment that is not conducive to their full human development."

It seems that the Inquisition would prefer that the faithful hand children over to the Catholic Church, whose leaders have shown willingness to cover-up and ignore the use of children as sexual toys for some of their priests.

Finally, the Considerations provides instructions to Catholic politicians:

"When legislation in favour of the recognition of homosexual unions is proposed for the first time in a legislative assembly, the Catholic lawmaker has a moral duty to express his opposition clearly and publicly and to vote against it. To vote in favour of a law so harmful to the common good is gravely immoral. When legislation in favour of the recognition of homosexual unions is already in force, the Catholic politician must oppose it in the ways that are possible for him and make his opposition known; it is his duty to witness to the truth."

The document, that will be cause for apology by a future Pope (just as the Church has apologized for similar aspersions cast on Jews), concludes:

"Legal recognition of homosexual unions or placing them on the same level as marriage would mean not only the approval of deviant behaviour, with the consequence of making it a model in present-day society, but would also obscure basic values which belong to the common inheritance of humanity."

Politicians responses to these Considerations.

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