Posted on 11/14/2015 7:06:33 AM PST by marshmallow
HONG KONG (Christian Examiner) - The leader of Catholics in Hong Kong, one of China's most densely populated cities, has issued a pastoral letter to his congregants encouraging them to elect candidates for local public office who hold traditional views on the family and marriage and oppose proposals to open Hong Kong to same-sex marriage.
In the letter dated Nov. 5, two days before Hong Kong's annual gay pride parade, Cardinal John Tong wrote "extreme liberalism, individualism, sexual liberation and the gay rights movement, under the guise of equality and the fight against discrimination, have all along been advocating the enactment of a Sexual Orientation Discrimination Ordinance (SODO) and the recognition of same-sex marriages."
Tong told the nearly 400,000 Catholics in Hong Kong "the core values and key concepts of marriage and of the family" are being challenged, undermining the "foundation of society."
Hong Kong's district council elections are scheduled for Nov. 22.
The election of candidates who want to push the gay rights agenda, Tong said, has proven to be "trend" contrary to democracy. He cited the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, in which the court voted 5-4 to allow same-sex marriage nationwide.
"One instance of the foregoing trend is the USA Supreme Court ruling last June which imposed the recognition of same-sex marriages on all the 50 States of that country, including those states which through a democratic voting system have previously voted against the recognition of same-sex marriages," Tong said.
This isn't the first time Tong has criticized the court's decision and taken on Justice Anthony Kennedy, specifically. Tong wrote in another pastoral letter in September that Kennedy, who wrote the majority opinion for the court, had destroyed millennia of legal (and biblical) precedent for marriage as a union between only men........
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Wow, even people from communist China can recognize tyranny when they see it.
Anthony Kennedy lunged at his opportunity to be canonized as a folk hero; nothing , especially not the Constitution, was going to stand in the way of that.
How embarrassing for Anthony Kennedy and the SCOTUS.
Tong has more good sense than most of the Catholic bishops in the United States.
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