The United States Conference of
Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is calling on Catholics to “pray, fast and
sacrifice” that the U.S. Supreme Court upholds two laws which
define marriage as a heterosexual union.
The cases involved the Defense of
Marriage Act (DOMA), which prevents federal agencies from recognizing
the legal marriages of gay and lesbian couples, and Proposition 8,
California's 2008 voter-approved gay marriage ban. The high court
heard the cases in March and is expected to hand down rulings next
month.
“A broad negative ruling could
redefine marriage in the law throughout the entire country, becoming
the Roe v. Wade of marriage,” the group wrote in a
nationwide bulletin insert being shared with all U.S. bishops.
The bulletin's “lead messages”
against marriage equality state that “sexual difference is
essential to marriage,” “mothers and fathers … aren't
interchangeable” and “redefining marriage in the law says [that]
... what adults want trumps what a child deserves and has a basic
right to.”
The bulletin's reference to Roe v.
Wade has become a popular mantra among social conservatives and
is meant to suggest that instead of settling the issue, striking down
the laws would create a tremendous backlash. However, the same could
be said of rulings which uphold the laws considering that a majority
of Americans support marriage equality.
Just further proof the Catholic church is in full violation of it's religious tax exemption by promoting a political agenda.
" In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile
to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting
his abuses in return for protection to his own."
-Thomas Jefferson, letter to Horatio G. Spafford, March 17, 1814
"My opinion is that there would never have been an infidel, if there had never been a priest. The artificial structures they have built on the purest of all moral systems, for the purpose of deriving from it pence and power, revolts those who think for themselves, and who read in that system only what is really there."
-Thomas Jefferson, letter to Mrs. Samuel H. Smith, August, 6, 1816
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