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Posted on 06/26/2015 10:31:10 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Supreme Court decision, June 26, interpreting the U.S. Constitution to require all states to license and recognize same-sex “marriage” “is a tragic error that harms the common good and most vulnerable among us,” said Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB).
The full statement follows:
Regardless of what a narrow majority of the Supreme Court may declare at this moment in history, the nature of the human person and marriage remains unchanged and unchangeable. Just as Roe v. Wade did not settle the question of abortion over forty years ago, Obergefell v. Hodges does not settle the question of marriage today. Neither decision is rooted in the truth, and as a result, both will eventually fail. Today the Court is wrong again. It is profoundly immoral and unjust for the government to declare that two people of the same sex can constitute a marriage.
The unique meaning of marriage as the union of one man and one woman is inscribed in our bodies as male and female. The protection of this meaning is a critical dimension of the “integral ecology” that Pope Francis has called us to promote. Mandating marriage redefinition across the country is a tragic error that harms the common good and most vulnerable among us, especially children. The law has a duty to support every child’s basic right to be raised, where possible, by his or her married mother and father in a stable home.
Jesus Christ, with great love, taught unambiguously that from the beginning marriage is the lifelong union of one man and one woman. As Catholic bishops, we follow our Lord and will continue to teach and to act according to this truth.
I encourage Catholics to move forward with faith, hope, and love: faith in the unchanging truth about marriage, rooted in the immutable nature of the human person and confirmed by divine revelation; hope that these truths will once again prevail in our society, not only by their logic, but by their great beauty and manifest service to the common good; and love for all our neighbors, even those who hate us or would punish us for our faith and moral convictions.
Lastly, I call upon all people of good will to join us in proclaiming the goodness, truth, and beauty of marriage as rightly understood for millennia, and I ask all in positions of power and authority to respect the God-given freedom to seek, live by, and bear witness to the truth.
Yes and our first Gay president had his fabulous news conference right after.
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I’m sure Frankie boy is all for it.
I hope this Pope doesn’t demote him for making an unauthorized statement.
Where are the pulpit flamethrowers of yesteryear declaring this act as an evil monstrosity and a satanic affront to Almighty God?
America is begging for destruction. She shall have it.
You know what Your Grace when you lie in bed with the Left you get political STDs.
**Bishop Thomas J. Tobin, head of the Catholic diocese of Providence, Rhode Island, said “a thousand courts” may rule what they want but gay marriage “is morally wrong” and a “rejection of God’s plan for the human family.” Quoting Pope Francis, Bishop Tobin further said that homosexual marriage comes from “the father of lies,” Satan, “who seeks to confuse and deceive the children of God.” “A thousand courts may rule otherwise, but the very notion of ‘same-sex marriage’ is morally wrong and a blatant rejection of God’s plan for the human family,” said Bishop Tobin in a June 26 post on Facebook. He continued, “As Pope Francis taught while serving as Archbishop in Argentina: ‘Same-sex marriage is not simply a political struggle, but it is an attempt to destroy God’s plan. It is a move of the ‘father of lies’ who seeks to confuse and deceive the children of God.’” **
I think the new Catholic Pope might disagree.
This Kurtz fellow is the same one, only last week, jumping up and down about the necessity of the RC Church forcing the Pope’s manifesto on global warming down parishoners throats.
The guy needs to look at himself and his Church hierarchy and their enablement of Liberalism before he can speak credibly on this sort of issue.
I do hope that, in the spirit of Justice Kennedy’s last paragraph (inferring a right to disagree but not deny) his own Cathedral of the Assumption in Louisville is the first one targeted by gay activists demanding that the RC Church marry them.
Pope Francis has spoken loud and clear about marriage. That he has done. Marriage is a man and woman, for bringing children into the word. I am not the biggest Francis’ fan, but please don’t lie about him.
Why in the hell do you hate the Catholic Church for speaking the truth about marriage? On all social issues of faith and morality the Catholic Church is traditional to the core. But I guess that’s lost on Catholic bashers.
States have no rights when you have a marxist president. No one does, but the King.
At the rate things are going to hell in a hand basket, I fear it won’t even take 5 to 10 years.
That is why it is time to stand up to that king.
Lastly, I call upon all people of good will to join us in proclaiming the goodness, truth, and beauty of marriage as rightly understood for millennia, and I ask all in positions of power and authority to respect the God-given freedom to seek, live by, and bear witness to the truth.
Someone get this man a spine.
It was...a classic example of a style of ecclesiastical document that the Vatican employs in complicated situations....This style of writing aims at “studied ambiguity,” a Vatican diplomat explained to me, noting that the people who write such letters are trained to think in terms of centuries, not sound bites. “So you always need to be able to say fifty years on, ‘Well, of course we never meant that,’” the diplomat said.
-- from the thread Mixed Blessing: The Ryan budget and the raging battle within the U.S. Catholic Church
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