Led by NOM chairman Robert George and former Watergate felon Chuck Colson, 152 religious leaders met in Manhattan on November 20th to draft the declaration. This is how it was reported by the Catholic News Agency.
“An unprecedented coalition of prominent Christian clergy, ministry leaders, and scholars has crafted a 4,700-word declaration addressing the sanctity of life, traditional marriage, and religious liberty. The declaration issues “a clarion call” to Christians to adhere to their convictions and informs civil authorities that the signers will not “under any circumstance” abandon their Christian consciences.”
The signatories explained that they speak now because in order ‘to defend principles of justice and the common good that are now under assault.’"
“These 152 zealots drafted, approved and signed their Declaration of War on full civil rights for gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and transgender (LGBT) Americans last week. They threw in some other societal beefs, just to try and mask the overriding issue, their fervent opposition to same-sex marriage,” said Fred Karger in his posting on Californians Against Hate.
According to
On Top Magazine, the document's language also takes aim at other gay rights laws, including a recently approved law that adds sexual orientation and gender identity to the list of federally recognized hate crimes and the
Employment Non-Discrimination Act, a bill that would ban workplace discrimination against gay men, lesbians and transgender people.....
Bishop Sam Aquila, Diocese of Fargo, ND
Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, Archdiocese of Denver, CO
Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio, Diocese of Brooklyn
Archbishop Timothy Dolan, Diocese of New York, NY
Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz, Archdiocese of Louisville, KY
Adam Cardinal Maida,?Archbishop Emeritus, Diocese of Detroit
Bishop Richard J. Malone, Diocese of Portland, ME
Bishop Robert C. Morlino, Diocese of Madison, WI
Archbishop John J. Myers, Archdiocese of Newark, NJ
Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann, Diocese of Kansas City, KS
Archbishop John Nienstedt, Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis
Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted, Diocese of Phoenix, AZ
Justin Cardinal Rigali?Archbishop, Archdiocese of Philadelphia
Bishop Michael J. Sheridan, Diocese of Colorado Springs, CO
Archbishop Donald W. Wuerl, Archdiocese of Washington, D.C.
Bishop David A. Zubik, Diocese of Pittsburgh, PA
3 comments:
May God bless, protect and reward the courageous Bishops and religious leaders who dare to speak the Truth in 2009!
The fact that you disagree with the Catholic Church and her teachings does not make the Church "hateful," it makes YOU hateful, for wrongly attacking the Church and her freedom of speech and of belief. I have never heard a bishop calling homosexuals “hateful!” YOU don’t even want to allow others the freedom to suggest that you might be wrong or mistaken or misguided.
Incidentally, your arguments are very deflated by the fact that the Catholic Church (and most Christians) EQUALLY discourage heterosexual promiscuity, as they discourage homosexual promiscuity. Statistics will show that the "gay" lifestyle is rarely associated with faithful partnership for LIFE, but rather with a promiscuous "party" lifestyle. It is not the recipe for happiness for any human being, or for children. Chaste homosexuals are welcomed by the Churches as much as chaste heterosexuals are. Promiscuous heterosexuals are condemned just as much as promiscuous homosexuals are condemned. Promiscuity is equally sinful and damaging to society in either context, heterosexual or homosexual.
Finally, heterosexual marriage enjoys special privilege in society and in religion because that is the way society perpetrates itself through sacrificial nurturing of children by two parents of two sexes, who are committed to the family for life -- ensuring children a stable and nurturing existence. Homosexual associations do not participate in this process of procreation, they do not offer children parental role models for both sexes. They also do not have the track record for success that heterosexual unions have, and are thus not entitled to the special status, respect and privileges that heterosexual marriages enjoy. You might note that the Catholic Church does not condone divorce for the same reason – the well-being of the family and children --- but rather offers numerous mechanisms for REPAIRING marriages rather than dissolving them. So opposition to homosexual marriage is not a hateful position, but a logical one. Some titles and positions in our society must be earned and are not distributed to anyone who asks, regardless of qualification.
So far, in every State of the US where homosexual marriage has been put to a public vote, the people of the United States have voted it down. The arguments that I have outlined here are pretty obvious and common sense to most people. You don’t have to agree with this, but stop attacking, as you do in this article, those who have a right to their own position and to their own vote.
Please stop calling everyone who disagrees with you “hateful,” and please find a REAL argument for your position – such as some statistics that show long-term success of homosexual “marriages,” or long-term psychological health and physical well-being of those who participate in the “gay” lifestyle, or long-term psychological health and physical well-being of children brought up under these circumstances.
The Christian Churches are trying to protect their people from dangerous lifestyles, and you, their opponents, cannot find a better argument than calling them “hateful.” If you disagree with a Church, don’t join it – but you don’t have to attack it or vilify it for disagreeing with you. You are trampling other people’s freedoms more than you claim that they are trampling yours. The religious leaders refrain from calling YOU hateful. They turn the other cheek.
A longer response is coming your way DuBay, but first consider this. Are we killing you for being Catholic? Are we denying you the right to be who you are, to have a job, to rent an apartment? Do we deny you the right to be who you are or are you just insisting that we continue to allow you to kill us and deny us our fundamental human rights? as you have always doing to us, by legislating your moral values into the laws again. is it wrong to deny you the use of the law to persecute us? A challenge to your faith does not automatically entail hatred toward you or your faith. Just the challenge to review your own actions and how they affect others. As far as your claims of hatred that we are leveling at you, have you seen the transgendered deaths by murder for this year? It would seem that we are merely addressing the actions associated with your beliefs. If this is hatred, then i can only suggest that you take a good long look at your own beliefs and feelings.
It is for this reason that we have to spell things out in the law as if we don't, you will continue to use your own sense of moral superiority, which is not self evident, to continue to abuse, kill and deny us our rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. You are killing and denying us in the name of your God by your own religious zealotry. I would find this very amusing if it were not for all of the transsexuals that I have known that all met untimely demises so you could continue to have black and white answers where none exist.
You are entitled to your faith and religious practices - as long as they do not deny us ours as well! Freedom for all or freedom for none. You can not have it both ways, despite your use of lies, distortions and outright fabrications of fact.
By the way I am a transsexual, which is not a form of homosexuality - even though I have always been treated as if this were the case by those whose tender mercies parallel your own. The fact that I am being treated on parity with others that you condemn allows me to see how you are persecuting others all too clearly.
Transgendered people are being killed? By who?
There was nothing in the statement that said to kill anyone.
There is a right and wrong. The attitude of people has changed. We have made things gray.
There is truth as logic would dictate. What is the truth is up for debate. The Bishop's are simply stating they are going to defend the truth. They have their reasons for it.
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