Bigot of the Day: Archbishop Timothy Dolan

Picking the top anti-gay bigot of the day isn't an easy task given the nastiness of the Christian Taliban leadership and their allies in the Roman Catholic Church. But given the hypocrisy of statements made by New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan on his blog in a post aimed at New York State legislators wherein he equates gay rights legislation and pro-gay court rulings with dictatorial acts by Communist China's government. Oh, and then there's his blather about the rights of children from which he omits an important piece: the right not to be raped by a Catholic priest and then not have the crime covered up by porcine hypocrites like Dolan. Here's a sampling of Dolan's hypocritical drivel:
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The stampede is on. Our elected senators who have stood courageous in their refusal to capitulate on the state’s presumption to redefine marriage are reporting unrelenting pressure to cave-in.
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[S]houldn’t we be more upset – and worried – about this perilous presumption of the state to re-invent the very definition of an undeniable truth – one man, one woman, united in lifelong love and fidelity, hoping for children – that has served as the very cornerstone of civilization and culture from the start?

Last time I consulted an atlas, it is clear we are living in New York, in the United States of America – not in China or North Korea. In those countries, government presumes daily to “redefine” rights, relationships, values, and natural law. There, communiqués from the government can dictate the size of families, who lives and who dies, and what the very definition of “family” and “marriage” means.
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We cherish true freedom, not as the license to do whatever we want, but the liberty to do what we ought; we acknowledge that not every desire, urge, want, or chic cause is automatically a “right.” And, what about other rights, like that of a child to be raised in a family with a mom and a dad?
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Marriage is not simply a mechanism for delivering benefits: It is the union of a man and a woman in a loving, permanent, life-giving union to pro-create children. Please don’t vote to change that. If you do, you are claiming the power to change what is not into what is, simply because you say so.
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Funny how for centuries the Catholic Church has been claiming the power to change what is not into what is, simply because it says so. Apparently, Dolan's okay with that type of dictatorial power as long as he and his morally bankrupt Vatican cronies are the ones wielding the power.