Reply #315: 11/06: Bishop ORDERS churches to play his homily urging yes vote on gay marriage ban [View All]

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WAUSAU — The bishop of the Diocese of Madison has ordered his priests to play during weekend Masses a recorded homily from him urging the faithful to vote “yes” on a proposed constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.

Same-sex marriage will cause the collapse of the family and “society in due time,” Bishop Robert Morlino warns in his homily. “There is no right to redefine marriage.”

The homily is just one of many efforts religious leaders are making to get followers to the polls Tuesday and sway their votes on the amendment...

In a letter sent to about 110 priests with the recorded sermon, the bishop asked them to support his message.

“I must make it very clear that any verbal or nonverbal expression of disagreement with this teaching on the part of the priest will have to be considered by myself as an act of disobedience, which could have serious consequences,” he wrote.

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