O’Malley to address Catholics who support gay rights

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Two weeks after signing Maryland’s same-sex marriage bill into law, Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) is scheduled to address a national conference of Catholics who support gay rights.


Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) at theMarch 1 signing of Maryland’s same-sex marriage bill. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)O’Malley, a practicing Catholic who was lobbied by the church hierarchy to reconsider his support of the bill, is speaking Friday afternoon in Baltimore at the Seventh National Symposium on Catholicism & Homosexuality, sponsored by the New Ways Ministry.

“As Catholics, we are proud of Governor O’Malley’s ardent support of marriage equality,” said Francis DeBernardo, the group’s executive director. “His support is in the best tradition of Catholicism’s legacy of social justice for all.”

O’Malley’s appearance comes as opponents of the new law conduct a petition drive aimed at putting the isuse to voters in November. O’Malley has conceded it is likely that the petition drive will succeed.

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1. Du rec.

No one should doubt that within catholicism there is a deep tradition of justice for all.

Those voices have been conveniently sidelined for now - but they are not dead.