Posts Tagged ‘Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone’
How to handle Pelosi
On Thursday, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco spoke publicly in defense of marriage in Washington, DC in spite of a letter from Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi asking him not to. She wrote her archbishop asking him not to show “disdain and hate towards LGBT persons” by speaking at a National Organization for Marriage march to the Supreme Court.
As Catholics of the United States, we have arrived at a moment in our history when the articulated defense, or even explanation, of the sacrament of marriage is called a hate crime by the House Minority Leader and a former Speaker of the House of Representatives, one of the nation’s most prominent “Catholic” politicians …
Reactions to the Supreme Court’s (so-called) gay marriage decision
“Some will rejoice in today’s decision, and some will despair at it; that is the nature of a controversy that matters so much to so many. But the Court has cheated both sides, robbing the winners of an honest victory, and the losers of the peace that comes from a fair defeat. We owed both of them better. I dissent.” — Justice Anthony Scalia
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