Dolan Decries Injustice against Marriage

Dolan Decries Injustice against Marriage
Inform, educate and act – www.cinopsbegone.com - Saturday, May 28, 2011

http://www.zenit.org/article-31942?1=english – President Position is Threat to Democracy

“Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York is decrying the “alarming and grave injustice” of U.S. President Barack Obama’s instruction to nation’s justice department to cease the defense of marriage. The president’s instruction to stop defending the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) was announced on Feb. 23, 2011 by the U.S. attorney general, Eric Holder.

“Archbishop Dolan, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, released a statement in response to this announcement, and also sent a personal message to Obama regarding this decision.

“Marriage, the union of one man and a woman as husband and wife, is a singular and irreplaceable institution. Only a man and a woman have the ability to bring children into the world. “Along with that ability comes responsibility,” the prelate stated, “which society historically reinforces with laws that bind mothers and fathers to each other and their children.

“He asserted that “contrary to the attorney general’s statement, DOMA does not single out people based on sexual ‘orientation’ or ‘inclination’. “Unjust discrimination against any person is always wrong,” But DOMA is not ‘unjust discrimination;’ rather, it merely affirms and protects the time-tested and unalterable meaning of marriage.”

“The suggestion that this definition amounts to ‘discrimination’ is grossly false and represents an affront to millions of citizens to this country.”“The decision also does not stand the test of Common Sense. It is hardly discrimination to say that a husband and wife have a unique and singular relationship that two persons of the same sex – or any unmarried persons – simply do not and cannot have. It is not ‘discrimination’ to say that having both a mother & father matters & benefits a child.”

“Protecting the definition of marriage is not merely permissible, but actually necessary as matter of justice.” He stressed that “having laws that affirm the vital importance of mothers and fathers -- laws that reinforce, rather than undermine, the ideal that children should be raised by their own mother and father – essential for any just society. Those laws are now under relentless attack.

“The administration current position is not only a grave threat to marriage, but to religious liberty and the integrity of our democracy as well. Our nation and government have the duty to recognize and protect marriage, not tamper with and redefine it, nor to caricature the deeply held beliefs of so many citizens as ‘discrimination.’

On behalf of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, I express my deep disappointment over the administration’s recent decision. I pray that [the president] and the Department of Justice may yet make the right choice to carry their constitutional responsibility, defending the irreplaceable institution of marriage, and so doing protect the future generation of our children.”

George H. Kubeck, There is outrageous arrogance with the Obama Regime. However, the horrendous scandal is with the CINOP, the Catholic-in-name only politician who supports same-sex marriage. That silence is deafening. But maybe only for a little while longer.