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MD, USA: Cardinal Orders Priests to Read Anti Gay Letter in Churches

Monday, April 30th, 2012

Maryland: Cardinal Orders Priests to Read Anti Gay Marriage Letter in ChurchesIs it just me, or are these news items becoming a daily occurrence?

Here’s the latest, courtesy of popular LGBT blog Joe.My.God: The office of Baltimore Cardinal Edwin O’Brien required that a pro-marriage-discrimination letter authored by the cardinal himself be read aloud at Mass this past weekend as part of a petition drive to collect the signatures needed to ensure that a statewide referendum to overturn Maryland’s new marriage equality law makes it onto the ballot in November.

The cardinal addressed Catholics directly in the letter: “Today after Mass, you will have the opportunity to sign this petition, and I strongly encourage you to do so.”

Full Story from the Huffington Post

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IL: Chicago Cardinal Disses Gay Marriage Advocates

Thursday, January 13th, 2011

It should not be surprising that, when confronted about the Roman Catholic Church’s opposition to same-sex marriage, Cardinal Francis George chose to rely upon the usual dismissal of what it means to be lesbian or gay, and to rely upon the same excuses and beliefs which the Vatican has pushed for some time.

As Chuck Colbert reported:

George told student John Falcone his “argument was not with Mother Church but with Mother Nature,” adding that anyone who advocates same-sex marriage or its equivalent “has lost touch with the common understanding of the human race.”

“No one has the right to change marriage,” George went on to say, neither “the Church” nor “the state.”

Full Story from Lez Get Real

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Illinois: Chicago Cardinal Says Even Civil Unions Are Too Much

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010

A Cardinal of the Catholic Church has attacked a civil union bill as changing “the nature of marriage” – despite the fact that civil unions aren’t technically “marriages.”

The Chicago Sun-Times reports that Cardinal Francis George, the (Uncle Fester-looking) head of Chicago’s Roman Catholic archdiocese, has taken a strong stand against an expected civil union bill in Illinois. George explained:

“Everyone has a right to marry, but no one has the right to change the nature of marriage. Marriage is what it is and always has been, no matter what a Legislature decides to do; however, the public understanding of marriage will be negatively affected by passage of a bill that ignores the natural fact that sexual complementarity is at the core of marriage.”

Full Story from Just Out

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