Posted on 08/18/2011 2:12:42 PM PDT by NYer
BALTIMORE, MD, August 17, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) Edwin O’Brien, the archbishop of Baltimore, isnt happy with the Catholic governor of Marylands decision to sponsor homosexual marriage legislation, but the governor has said that he has no intention of backing down.
A July letter from Archbishop Edwin OBrien to Governor Martin OMalley, a Democrat, and an August 4 written response by the governor, were both posted on the governors blog last Tuesday.
In his original letter Archbishop OBrien challenged Governor OMalley to act in line with his faith and not to support homosexual marriage, suggesting that the governor was acting out of mere political expediency.
Preserving the central role of the natural family unit has always been and should continue to be the reason why our government recognizes marriage as existing between one man and one woman, he said.
OBrien suggested that the July passage of similar legislation in New York has intensified pressure on OMalley to lend his active support to legislation to redefine marriage. But he said that it was especially hard to fathom OMalley supporting homosexual marriage legislation, given that our requests last year for you to sponsor legislation to repeal the death penalty and support students in Catholic and other non-public schools were unheeded.
The governor responded to OBriens letter in a letter of his own, saying that he agrees with many of the Churchs beliefs, but not on the issue of homosexuality.
I do not presume, nor would I ever presume as governor, to question or infringe upon your freedom to define, to preach about and to administer the sacraments of the Roman Catholic Church, OMalley said. But on the public issue of granting equal civil marital rights to same-sex couples, you and I disagree.
When shortcomings in our laws bring about a result that is unjust, I have a public obligation to try to change that injustice, said the governor.
I have concluded that discriminating against individuals based on their sexual orientation in the context of civil marital rights is unjust. I have also concluded that treating the children of families headed by same-sex couples with lesser protections under the law than the children of families headed by heterosexual parents, is also unjust.
As previously reported by LifeSiteNews, OMalley announced the passage of homosexual marriage as a legislative priority on July 15 at a meeting for the National Governors Association in Salt Lake City, Utah. A bill to legalize homosexual marriage passed the Maryland State Senate in March, but it failed to win passage in the House of Delegates. OMalley had promised to sign the bill if it had been approved by the House.
According to my reading of Can. 915.
It does not apply since there has been no declaration of excommunication or of interdiction, therefore Can. 915. is not in force.
Can. 916 might apply though. It depends on how grave the sin is to disagree with ones local ordinary on matters of faith and morals, or it might hinge on how grave and public his "active" support for homosexual marriage is. I am no canon lawyer though.
Is the governor of Maryland insane? Male and female genitalia are made for union. Male/male or female/female can only achieve union by means of perverted behavior that is both mentally damaging and physically risky. What about the health and safety of the population the governor is supposed to protect? The governor condones adding risk to the mental and physical health of the people of Maryland by supporting deviant behavior. He should be impeached, IMO.
He is no more CATHOLiC than my Jewuish Husand!!!!! But my Jewish husband RESPECTS LIFE!!!!
That doesn't even make sense!
Maryland "Freak State" PING!
How are CHILDREN treated differently?
Perhaps natural discrimination, as in “eewwww, did you hear Jason has 2 mommies?”, which pretty much everyone faces in life.
But I can’t think of any legal way children of !%#!#$s have “lesser protections”.
Correction: well continue to pick and choose what we want from an abridged, heavily edited Bible.
Give it a rest with the divergent non-sequiturs. You are like the people who must post “what about abortion?” on animal-abuse threads.
Canon 751: Heresy is the obstinate denial or obstinate doubt after the reception of baptism of some truth which is to be believed by divine and Catholic faith; apostasy is the total repudiation of the Christian faith; schism is the refusal of submission to the Supreme Pontiff or of communion with the members of the Church subject to him.
Canon 1364 §1: an apostate from the faith, a heretic, or a schismatic incurs a latae sententiae excommunication.
The phrase latae sententiae means a judgment or sentence which is 'wide' (latae) or widely applied; it refers to a type of excommunication which is automatic. Such a sentence of excommunication is incurred by the very commission of the offense, (CCC 2272) and does not require the future particular judgment of a case by competent authority.
Apostasy, heresy, and schism are all offences which incur a sentence of excommunication automatically. Heresy is the obstinate denial of any truth of the Catholic faith, on a matter of faith or morals, which has been definitively taught by the Magisterium.
http://www.catholicplanet.com/articles/article78.htm
Yes, I could see where Rome would teach that the Scriptural solution has nothing to do with the problem.
Correction: we’ll use the Bible while Rome picks its nose.
If he said it was his priority and sponsored it, seems clear to me.
He’d better hope I don’t see him in the communion line, unless he has his arms crossed for a blessing.
Canon 751: Heresy is the obstinate denial or obstinate doubt after the reception of baptism of some truth which is to be believed by divine and Catholic faith; apostasy is the total repudiation of the Christian faith; schism is the refusal of submission to the Supreme Pontiff or of communion with the members of the Church subject to him. Canon 1364 §1: an apostate from the faith, a heretic, or a schismatic incurs a latae sententiae excommunication. The phrase latae sententiae means a judgment or sentence which is 'wide' (latae) or widely applied; it refers to a type of excommunication which is automatic. Such a sentence of excommunication is incurred by the very commission of the offense, (CCC 2272) and does not require the future particular judgment of a case by competent authority. Apostasy, heresy, and schism are all offences which incur a sentence of excommunication automatically. Heresy is the obstinate denial of any truth of the Catholic faith, on a matter of faith or morals, which has been definitively taught by the Magisterium. http://www.catholicplanet.com/articles/article78.htm
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