Roman Catholic Bishops Extend Anti-Gay Jihad to North Carolina

Increasingly, the number one opponent to LGBT equality - indeed, to treatment of LGBT individuals as even fully human - is the Catholic Church hierarchy. Yep, those same men who are best known for aiding and abetting child rapists and seeking to regulate women's bodies. Now these men (many of whom, in my honest opinion, ought to rightly be behind bars as accessories to crimes against children) are taking their anti-gay rights campaign to North Carolina. My blogger friend Pam Spaulding looks at this development and rightly calls out the moral bankruptcy of these bitter, nasty, hubris filled men who I increasingly see as nothing less than a force for evil in the world. When will the Catholic laity wake up and stop funding these bastards? Likewise, when are legislators going to cease kissing the asses of these foul men? Here are highlights from Pam's post:

Bishops Peter Jugis of the Diocese of Charlotte and Michael Burbidge of the Diocese of Raleigh have continued to sell out principle, trying to confuse people that this is a vote about marriage equality — and thus the apparent end of civilization — but they really do love the gays. This is pure homophobia that continues to conflate church and state matters.

What”divinely revealed” moral standing does the Church have these days given its pedophile priest protection problem? The church should make better use of its resources on that front. But that doesn’t stop Bishops Peter Jugis and Michael Burbidge.

And the fact is that this amendment has nothing to do with procreation or religious marriage, but these are the only pitiful tricks in their bag of bigotry that they are selling. Pope Benedict sees marriage equality as a threat to the “future of humanity itself,” yet North Carolina isn’t even considering marriage equality, this is about stopping an amendment that prevents any legal recognition (civil unions or domestic partnerships) at all for same-sex couples at any point in the future.

Did I mention that Marriage Unique for a Reason is a project of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishop’s (USCCB)? Guess who heads that up — homophobe extraordinaire Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York.

I see this intervention by the Catholic Church as a sign that the professional anti-LGBT crowd is worried we might defeat this ballot initiative.

As Pam has noted in a prior post, the North Carolina Libertarian Party has come out in opposition to Amendment 1. Pam also notes the real motivation of the bishops and professional Christian set:

[T]he primary reason for this ballot initiative on May 8 – it is specifically designed to demonize and hurt taxpaying, voting LGBT North Carolinians.

As for the bishops, what needs to be done is what has occurred in several dioceses in Europe: police officials need to start swooping into bishoprics with warrants and seizing diocese files on sexual predators and then issue indictments against bishops and cardinals who have obstructed justice and allowed crimes against children. These evil men need to be thoroughly discredited and revealed for what they really are.