In what ought to be another wake up call to Catholics and others who have been duped by the PR style of Pope Francis, the Virginia Catholic Conference filed an amicus brief in Bostic v. Rainey supporting Virginia's same sex marriage ban and state sponsored anti-gay discrimination. Besides revealing that absolutely NOTHING has changed in terms of the Catholic Church's anti-gay jihad, the filing demonstrates again why the Catholic Church needs to be striped of its tax exempt status for intrusion into civil law matters. I'd also note that if Bishops DiLorenzo and Loverde were truly "child focused" they would be demanding that bishops and cardinals who aided and abetted sexual predator priests. Their silence on this issue says all one needs to know about this disingenuous, bitter old men in dresses. The Richmond Times Dispatch looks at the filing. Here are details:
The Virginia Catholic Conference on Friday filed a brief with the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in support of Virginia’s definition of marriage as the union of one man and one woman.
In the amicus brief, attorneys for Bishop Francis DiLorenzo of Richmond and Bishop Paul Loverde of Arlington note that changing the legal definition of marriage would “unavoidably change the way Virginia’s citizens view marriage” and make the state’s marriage laws “adult-focused rather than child-focused.”
“If the message and function of marriage is changed in concept, the cultural significance attached to marriage will also change,” the brief states.
DiLorenzo and Loverde said in a statement Friday that while they “affirm the intrinsic dignity of all people, including those with same-sex attractions,” they also seek to preserve the one institution “that was designed to protect children and the family: marriage, rooted in natural law as the union of one man and one woman.”
“Marriage has an original, unalterable design that existed before any religion or government. No religion, government, or court should redesign it,” they said.
I'm sorry, but these nasty men are full of shit. saying that they "affirm the dignity of all people" even as they support discrimination is like slave owners of old using the Bible "slaves obey your masters" to justify slavery. The hypocrisy of the Roman Catholic Church hierarchy truly knows no limits.
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