Here we go again: USCCB Chairman Praises Sixth Circuit Decision Upholding Marriage

[theHandpuppet]

USCCB Chairman Praises Sixth Circuit Decision Upholding Marriage
November 7, 2014

WASHINGTON—Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone of San Francisco, chairman of the USCCB Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defense of Marriage, praised the decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit upholding the rights of states to legally recognize and protect the meaning of marriage as exclusively between one man and one woman.

“The Sixth Circuit has upheld the rights of the citizens of Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee to protect and defend marriage as the unique relationship of a man and a woman,” Archbishop Cordileone said. “We are particularly heartened by the Court’s acknowledgment of the reasonable arguments for preserving the true definition of marriage and by the Court’s respect for the self-determination of states on this issue.”

The Court’s opinion included an argument grounding marriage in the complementarity of man and woman, saying: “It is not society’s laws or for that matter any one religion’s laws, but nature’s laws (that men and women complement each other biologically), that created the policy imperative.”

The Court’s opinion also argued for the rationality of the states’ protecting marriage’s unique meaning: “By creating a status (marriage) and by subsidizing it (e.g., with tax-filing privileges and deductions), the States created an incentive for two people who procreate together to stay together for purposes of rearing offspring. That does not convict the States of irrationality, only of awareness of the biological reality that couples of the same sex do not have children in the same way as couples of opposite sexes and that couples of the same sex do not run the risk of unintended offspring. That explanation, still relevant today, suffices to allow the States to retain authority over an issue they have regulated from the beginning.”

Archbishop Cordileone said, “The Church continues to support efforts to promote, protect and defend marriage in the law. We pray in solidarity with all people that the authentic meaning of marriage will be protected and honored in this country, for the good of all.”....

MORE at http://www.usccb.org/news/2014/14-179.cfm

[trotsky]

1. "The Church continues to support efforts to promote, protect and defend marriage in the law."

And that's the problem.

[cbayer]

2. The USCCB are really dug in on this and I don't know

what it is going to take to more them.

They can praise this all they want, but this circuit decision is not consistent with all the other court decisions on this matter.

They make me sick.

[shenmue]

3. Me too

Everybody has legal rights, not just him.

[cbayer]

6. They are so out of step and just regressing with no signs of progress.

[cbayer]

5. That's from 2011. DOMA was struck down by SCOTUS in 2013.

But I am sure that USCCB were enraged.

We need a revolution. I know that Francis moves slowly, but I hope he has a planned overhaul on his agenda.

The fact that he is getting so much grief from certain quarters actually makes me think that he is doing something right.

[theHandpuppet]

7. Yep, that's an old press release

They've been coming out so fast and furious it's hard to keep track. I'll delete that post as to not create confusion.

I'm afraid I don't have the hope that you do regarding Francis and LGBTs. I don't see any difference, really, between his positions on these matters and those of Cordileone -- it's just a matter of tone.

[cbayer]

8. I've been mocked for it, but I remain cautiously optimistic.

I don't really expect anything to substantially change, but I think a change in posture and attitude could lead to more change in the future.

I do see a difference between Francis and Cordileone, but I could be overly optimistic.

[okasha]

9. They're not upholding marriage.

They're holding it up.

Fourteenth Amendment issue. Simple.

[rug]

10. Too bad he lives in the Ninth Circuit which has already ruled bans on same sex marriage are unlawful

[theHandpuppet]

11. Cordileone is known as the father of Proposition 8

He not only helped to draft but to finance Prop 8. I'm sure he is still fuming that it was finally trashed.

Still, he holds an important position with the USCCB so his influence is national, not just local.

[rug]

12. He's a hateful meddler in things he has no business meddling.