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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNew SF Archbishop Speaks Out About Election and the 'Redefinition of Marriage'
http://sfist.com/2012/11/08/our_new_archbishop_speaks_out_about.phpNewly installed Catholic Archbishop of San Francisco, Salvatore Cordileone, would really like everyone to know how disappointed he is in America. The new gay marriage laws passed Tuesday in three states, and the rejection of Minnesota's constitutional definition of marriage as being between a man and a woman, signal to him a greater need to defend heterosexual marriage from these attacks by "those who promote the redefinition of marriage."
He issued a statement today. Read it and try to understand how this guy is going to keep living here:
November 6 was a disappointing day for marriage, as the effort to preserve the unique meaning of marriage in the law lost by only a narrow margin in four states, even though vastly outspent by those who promote the redefinition of marriage.
The meaning of marriage, though, cannot be redefined because it lies within our very nature. No matter what policy, law or judicial decision is put into place, marriage is the only institution that unites a man and a woman to each other and to any children born of their union. It is either this, or it is nothing at all. In view of the fact that every child has a mother and a father, our society either respects the basic right of every child to be raised by his or her mother and father together and so supports the true and unique meaning of marriage for the good of children, or it does not.
In a society marked by increasing poverty and family fragmentation, marriage needs to be strengthened, promoted, and defended, not redefined. I hope and pray that political leaders, judges, and all people will seek to honor this foundational and common sense truth of marriage.
The meaning of marriage, though, cannot be redefined because it lies within our very nature. No matter what policy, law or judicial decision is put into place, marriage is the only institution that unites a man and a woman to each other and to any children born of their union. It is either this, or it is nothing at all. In view of the fact that every child has a mother and a father, our society either respects the basic right of every child to be raised by his or her mother and father together and so supports the true and unique meaning of marriage for the good of children, or it does not.
In a society marked by increasing poverty and family fragmentation, marriage needs to be strengthened, promoted, and defended, not redefined. I hope and pray that political leaders, judges, and all people will seek to honor this foundational and common sense truth of marriage.
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New SF Archbishop Speaks Out About Election and the 'Redefinition of Marriage' (Original Post)
Newsjock
Nov 2012
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Celibate Males In Dresses Have Nothing Useful To Say About Heterosexual Marriage, Sir
The Magistrate
Nov 2012
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Thomas B
(16 posts)1. Dissapointed?
Well we are dissapointed with his DUI. Think of that, a man of the cloth endangering the public. Hypocrite!!!
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)2. He's doing his job. That's what he's supposed to say. nt
Horse with no Name
(33,956 posts)3. Well I am not only disappointed...but I am fucking pissed
about the pedophiles that you hide in the churches
Heterosexual is NOT under attack!
Tutonic
(2,522 posts)5. This is why the framers of our constitution
insisted on separation of church and state.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)6. Hey dumb ass ...did you notice where you are living? I'ts called San Francisco.
The stupid it burns.
The Magistrate
(95,255 posts)7. Celibate Males In Dresses Have Nothing Useful To Say About Heterosexual Marriage, Sir
They have nothing useful to say about human sexuality, period. Unless it were to be a confession of their own shame and confusion in face of their own sexual drives and urges, and expression of a sincere desire to seek healing for their emotional lacks and woundings, which have led them to so unnatural a life as they have been driven to by inner demons they cannot confront or control.
muntrv
(14,505 posts)8. Fire this guy and replace him with Gene Robinson, archbishop of New Hampshire.
stopbush
(24,396 posts)9. Jackass. eom