In other words: A discussion of The Bush Administration
Catholics urged to fight gay marriage
A call to fight the legalization of gay marriage was issued by several prominent voices yesterday, including Boston Archbishop Sean P. O'Malley and former US Supreme Court nominee Robert H. Bork, who strongly urged the state's Catholic lawyers and judges to oppose last year's historic decision by the state Supreme Judicial Court.
O'Malley made his remarks during the annual Red Mass at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross, an event named for the scarlet vestments worn during a service to bless the work of lawyers and judges.
"We cannot afford to be asleep at the switch. We cannot afford to run for cover. Today, at this Red Mass, I call on you, our Catholic lawyers and jurists, to live your baptismal commitment," O'Malley said. "Your baptism and your profession invest you with a great responsibility. Use your wisdom to defend the truth, to defend marriage. Do it with a passion and do what is right."
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The crowd included some of the church's most stalwart legal defenders, including Wilson Rogers Jr. and his son, Wilson Rogers III, who for years defended the church against civil complaints of sexual abuse, and Thomas H. Hannigan Jr., the Boston attorney hired by O'Malley to negotiate last year's historic $85 million settlement with more than 500 alleged victims of clergy sexual abuse.
Ahh, I see, between defending pedophile cases the church wants to defend "marriage."
Okay I'm not a religious expert but is anyone else sickened that the church spends money to defend what is obviously a sin - using authority to sexually prey on the young, and is also spending money to make sure loving gay couples cannot have the same legal rights as married couples?
Sure sure the bible says it is a sin:
Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination. - Leviticus, 18. 22
But come on. It was a big book written a long time ago. Let's read some more fascinating quotes from Leviticus.
For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood [shall be] upon him. - Leviticus, 20.9
Again, no religious expert here, but if I'm reading this right being an average teen is cause for a death sentence, while being gay is just an abomination. Maybe everyone would be better off ignoring some of the bible, I mean Christians are eating pigs for God sakes, obviously the Old Testament isn't completely sancrosanct to the Christian faith. (and let's not even go into Bush making up reasons to go to war... that gets close to the ol' thou shalt not kill' and 'shalt not bare false witness' little bugaboos doesn't it).
I mean I don't even know what to make of this:
And if a man shall lie with a woman having her sickness, and shall uncover her nakedness; he hath discovered her fountain, and she hath uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both of them shall be cut off from among their people. - Leviticus, 20.18
Sleep with a woman while she's having her period and you both must then live in exile. Yeah, exile will become more populated than NYC really dang fast.
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