FAITH UNDER FIRE
CATHOLIC BISHOPS CALL SAME-SEX MARRIAGE 'INTRINSIC EVIL'
Consider updated voter guide at conference this week
Bob Unruh
There’s a number of counties in the South where officials effectively have told the U.S. Supreme Court they will fight the “same-sex marriage” mandate imposed over the summer.
And legal scholars have come out with a statement that the ruling from five liberal lawyers on the high court bench should be treated, essentially, as if it doesn’t exist.
One judge even suggested that since the justices in Washington created same-sex marriage, they should run it.
Nationwide.
But now one of the bigger influences in the nation is aligning with same-sex marriage critics, calling it an “intrinsic evil.”
That word is coming from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
According to the Church Militant blog, the bishops meeting this week are reviewing a voters guide update that focuses on same-sex marriage, defining it a number of times as an “intrinsic evil” like abortion.
“At the start of the annual meeting … the bishops made clear that high on their priorities was combating the evil of gay marriage,” blogger Christine Niles said.
“I don’t think because five Supreme Court justices changed the public policy on such a fundamental issue that we should just accept it,” Abp. Joseph Naumann of Kansas City said in the report. “I think we have to be as strong as we have on the pro-life issue.”
The report said the bishops gave two standing ovations to Apostolic Nuncio Carlo Maria Vigano before his opening address.
He was the official was who criticized in secular media outlets when he arranged a private meeting between Pope Francis and Kim Davis, the county clerk in Kentucky who was jailed for nearly a week by U.S. District Judge David Bunning for refusing his orders to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples in violation of her faith.
The guide, “Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship,” is re-issued before each presidential election as a guide for Catholic voters.
The report said previews of the changes proposed indicate “the issue of same-sex marriage is mentioned no less than 10 times.”
A critic of the bishops’ possible position, Michael Sean Winters of NCRonline, wrote: “At a time when racial tensions are at their worst in my adult lifetime, the proposed text equates same-sex marriage with racism, calling them both intrinsic evils. … I can scarcely imagine a comparison better designed to alienate young Catholics.”
“The drafting committee said that they were only making minor changes but they actually reconfigured the text’s entire treatment of Catholic Social Teaching. … The section on intrinsic evil, which causes Democrats to squirm, has been retained and expanded. … Even within the section on intrinsic evil, it is shocking that same sex marriage now gets more ink than abortion.”
A homosexual-rights supporter at the New Civil Rights Movement noted that USCCB President Joseph Edward Kurtz called the Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage a “tragic error that harms the common good and most vulnerable among us, especially children.”
In Johnson County, officials voted “to affirm and go on record that Johnson County is vehemently opposed to the Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell et al v. Hodges and supports the decision of any elected/appointed official challenging that unconstitutional decision.”
In Greene County, officials adopted a very similar statement that pointed out that “since this country’s founding [states] have regulated and defined marriage without interference from the federal government or its courts.”
In McMinn County, officials pointed out the text of the Ninth and 10th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution “reserve all powers not explicitly delegated to the federal government to the people and the states.”
WND also reported just weeks ago when dozens of top legal scholars from the likes of Washington & Lee, Boston College, Kansas State, Notre Dame, University of Texas, Villanova, Vanderbilt, Hillsdale, University of Nebraska, Catholic University and Regent University issued a statement encouraging all state and federal officials to treat the Supreme Court’s recent creation of “same-sex marriage” as “anti-constitutional and illegitimate.”
“It cannot … be taken to have settled the law of the United States,” said the statement by the American Principles Project.
“We call on all federal and state officeholders: To refuse to accept Obergefell as binding precedent for all but the specific plaintiffs in that case. To recognize the authority of states to define marriage, and the right of federal and state officeholders to act in accordance with those definitions. To pledge full and mutual legal and political assistance to anyone who refuses to follow Obergefell for constitutionally protected reasons. To open forthwith a broad and honest conversation on the means by which Americans may constitutionally resist and overturn the judicial usurpations evidence in Obergefell.”
Robert George, founder of the project and the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton, said: “We stand with James Madison and Abraham Lincoln in recognizing that the Constitution is not whatever a majority of Supreme Court justices say it is. We remind all officeholders in the United States that they are pledged to uphold the Constitution of the United States, not the will of five members of the Supreme Court.”
And it was Probate Judge John Enslen in Alabama who said since the U.S. Supreme Court – a branch of the federal government – created same-sex marriage, Washington can just go ahead and administer the licenses.
In Alabama, the state Supreme Court still has pending a case regarding how the state should implement the federal marriage ruling.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2015/11/catholic-bishops-call-same-sex-marriage-intrinsic-evil/#40tbjatcSZU2xpjy.99My comments: Same-Sex Marriage is an Assault on God and His Word. Marriage between one man and one woman is the Foundation of God's Created Order. Those who promote Same-sex Marriage are anti-Christs.
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