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Christian Clergy Group Demands Catholic Church Abandon Opposition to Gay "Marriage"
LifeSiteNews ^ | 6/27/06 | Hilary White

Posted on 06/28/2006 6:04:33 AM PDT by wagglebee

BOSTON, June 27, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A group of clergy including members from a number of mainline Christian denominations and other religious organizations, including a number of Catholics, is calling on the Catholic hierarchy to end its opposition to homosexual “marriage,” claiming that it is in violation of “religious freedom”.
 
The group, calling itself the Religious Coalition for the Freedom to Marry, will release an open letter to Cardinal Sean O’Malley and Roman Catholic bishops of Massachusetts asking the Catholic hierarchy “to respect religious freedom and stop lobbying for a constitutional amendment that would deny civil marriage rights to couples married by other denominations.”
 
The group consists of clergy from the American Baptist, Episcopal, Presbyterian, Quaker (or Society of Friends), Southern Baptist and United Methodist denominations.
 
The letter says that although the group disagrees with the “position” of the Catholic Church that homosexual acts are gravely sinful, they “honor your right to believe as you wish.  We respect your right to practice your faith according to your laws.”
 
That “honor” reaches only so far as the strictly private sphere however. Public defence of Traditional marriage is beyond the pale.
 
“You are promoting prejudice through your political campaign, intentionally or not,” the letter says.
 
“By proclaiming homosexuality and same-sex unions to be universally immoral and worthy of second-class status under state law, you are sending a message that our faith communities are immoral.  You are harming us and our families and your own faithful as well.  Thousands of Roman Catholics have signed our Roman Catholic Statement in support of marriage equality.  They have signed out of their pain and their love and concern for the Church.”
 
The largest group in the Coalition is from the Unitarian Universalist church – a non-Christian organization – followed by the Episcopalians.
 
In meetings last week, the US Episcopal Church (ECUSA) pushed the Worldwide Anglican Communion to the point of disintegration by refusing a moratorium on ordaining homosexual bishops and other clergy. Last week, ECUSA’s House of Deputies voted overwhelmingly to refuse to consider a resolution that affirmed Jesus Christ as the "only name by which any person may be saved,” a defining Christian doctrine.
 
Read the full text of the letter:
http://www.rcfm.org/LettertoRCBishops.htm




TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: apostatechurch; catholic; christian; faithcommunityfah; godlessliberals; homosexualagenda; homosexualmarriage; homosexuals; religiousleft
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“By proclaiming homosexuality and same-sex unions to be universally immoral and worthy of second-class status under state law, you are sending a message that our faith communities are immoral...."> Well, if the shoe fits.
1 posted on 06/28/2006 6:04:34 AM PDT by wagglebee
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To: NYer; Coleus; narses; Salvation

Ping.


2 posted on 06/28/2006 6:05:06 AM PDT by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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To: DBeers; DirtyHarryY2K

HA Ping.


3 posted on 06/28/2006 6:05:55 AM PDT by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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To: wagglebee
you are sending a message that our faith communities are immoral

Ding ding ding!

We have a winner.

4 posted on 06/28/2006 6:06:36 AM PDT by wideawake ("The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten." - Calvin Coolidge)
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To: wagglebee

Last week, ECUSA’s House of Deputies voted overwhelmingly to refuse to consider a resolution that affirmed Jesus Christ as the "only name by which any person may be saved,” a defining Christian doctrine.

That meaans they are not Christian and should be thrown out of the organization


5 posted on 06/28/2006 6:07:31 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Seeking the truth here folks.)
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To: wagglebee
I find it amusing when a group of idiots DEMAND impossible things.

Perhaps they will hold their collective breath until their demand is met. lol

6 posted on 06/28/2006 6:09:21 AM PDT by verity (The MSM is comprised of useless eaters)
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To: wideawake

Sometimes, the truth just hurts.


7 posted on 06/28/2006 6:09:23 AM PDT by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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To: wagglebee

I wonder who the "clergy" from the Southern Baptists is/are?

AFAIK, Southern Baptists don't believe any such thing. A Southern Baptist minister might get himself in hot water for an action like this...

They should publicly identify the Southern Baptist minister who belongs to their group. So we can let his congregation know....


8 posted on 06/28/2006 6:09:52 AM PDT by Judith Anne (Thank you St. Jude for favors granted.)
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To: wagglebee
Christian Clergy Group Demands Catholic Church Abandon Opposition to Gay "Marriage"

Catholic Church Rolls on Floor, Laughing.

9 posted on 06/28/2006 6:10:08 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: PeterPrinciple

How long will it be til some "church" or the ACLU sues the Catholic church for some "civil rights" violation? Can see it coming.


10 posted on 06/28/2006 6:10:33 AM PDT by kjo
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To: wagglebee

>>immoral.

And your point was?

(imagine black freeway sign - What Part of 1-Romans didn't you understand?)


11 posted on 06/28/2006 6:10:42 AM PDT by epluribus_2
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To: wagglebee

Shouldn't that be "Christian" "clergy" group?


12 posted on 06/28/2006 6:11:10 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("Wallow in poverty, you whining gerbil! They're taking everyone's money!" ~dljordan)
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To: wagglebee
Christian Clergy Group Demands Catholic Church Abandon Opposition to Gay "Marriage"

By their own "demand" they identify themselves as anything but a "Christian group".

13 posted on 06/28/2006 6:11:16 AM PDT by Graybeard58 (Remember and pray for Sgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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To: wagglebee
13 ¶ Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:

14 Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.

15 Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?

16 Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?

-Isaiah 29:13-16

14 posted on 06/28/2006 6:12:05 AM PDT by Reaganesque
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To: Tax-chick

Chortle :-)


15 posted on 06/28/2006 6:12:17 AM PDT by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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To: wagglebee
More proof that religion should be between a man and his God, and not what some perverts think it should be.



16 posted on 06/28/2006 6:13:04 AM PDT by G.Mason (And what is intelligence if not the craft of outthinking our adversaries?)
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To: PeterPrinciple

Time and again, those who report on these matters NEVER get the the heart of it....

They always frame the subject as if Christians assert that Christ is the only way, never mentioning that the Bible records that Christ himself said so, and that the Apostles said so (including Paul who before his convertion, lead the efforts to stamp out Christianity).


17 posted on 06/28/2006 6:13:36 AM PDT by Moby Grape
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To: wagglebee
"you are sending a message that our faith communities are immoral"



LOL! They can't be that stupid...can they?? Do they really think that they can change the Catholic Church because it doesn't fit into their lifestyle?

IMHO I'd rather see Priests being allowed to marry, might cut down on the pedophiles entering the priesthood.
18 posted on 06/28/2006 6:13:45 AM PDT by alice_in_bubbaland (NY Slimes the paper of record for OBL!)
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To: Judith Anne
It is odd. I can't imagine the SBC would maintain fellowship with such a pastor - yet it seems not to be a misprint because they say American Baptists and Southern Baptist.

At first I thought Southern was just a misprint for American.

19 posted on 06/28/2006 6:14:10 AM PDT by wideawake ("The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten." - Calvin Coolidge)
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To: Judith Anne

I was thinking the same thing, this guy will probably be out of a job by the end of the week.


20 posted on 06/28/2006 6:14:18 AM PDT by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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