Louis Dupré, Passage to Modernity, 29
I guess in training for the priesthood this trumps the Bible.
I forgot to mention that the US Jesuits had the highest rate of AIDS, followed by the Franciscans, during the time that it was a serious problem.
I guess he hasn’t read about Sodom and Gomorra.
"...the Supreme Court's decision to overturn the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) ..."
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Evidently even after all this time since United States v. Windsor was decided, people still don’t understand that the Supremes struck down only one of two major privisions in the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).
This Act may be cited as the “Defense of Marriage Act”.
No State, territory, or possession of the United States, or Indian tribe, shall be required to give effect to any public act, record, or judicial proceeding of any other State, territory, possession, or tribe respecting a relationship between persons of the same sex that is treated as a marriage under the laws of such other State, territory, possession, or tribe, or a right or claim arising from such relationship.
In determining the meaning of any Act of Congress, or of any ruling, regulation, or interpretation of the various administrative bureaus and agencies of the United States, the word 'marriage' means only a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife, and the word 'spouse' refers only to a person of the opposite sex who is a husband or a wife.
Note that Section 3 was appropriately ruled unconstitutional, imo, for the simple reason that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate marriage. So the feds don’t even have the power to define marriage.
Also note that DOMA Section 2 remains in effect. Section 2 is appropriately based on Congress’s constitutional authority, under Full Faith and Credit Clause (4.1), to regulate the effect of one states records in the other states, Section 2 clarifying that the states are not obligated to respect gay marriages by other states.
But regarding Section 2, also consider that the corrupt Court is now seemingly doing a complete turnaround with respect to wrongly ignoring 10th Amendment protected state power to prohibit gay marriage.
It’s not perversion, it’s diversity! OK, got it.