Direct and Indirect Comments on S-S Marriage in New York # 1

Direct and Indirect Comments on S-S-Marriage in New York # 1
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Monday, July 11, 2011

http://www.catholicvote.org/discuss/index/php?p=18773

Lopez: Why should anyone care about the debate anymore? A man and a man can legally get married in New York. The die is cast. Besides, who wants to be an intolerant civil-rights bigot… or so my inbox called me all weekend again. [An America with same-sex marriage is not America anymore!]

1. Professor Robert P. George: Well, people should care because the whole edifice of sexual-liberationist ideology is built on damaging and dehumanizing falsehoods. It has already done enormous harm – harm that falls on everybody, but disproportionately on those in the poorest and most vulnerable sectors of our society. [This reminds me of the Black American families in letter Monday, June 27th, “False Ideas are Killing America.”]

If you doubt that have a look at Myron Magnet great book “The Dream and Nightmare the Sixties Legacy to the Underclass” or some of the writings of Kay Hymowitz and other serious people who have examined the social consequences for the poor of the embrace of sexual liberalism by celebrities and other cultural elite. Marriage is a profound human and social good it weakening and loss is a tragedy from which affluent people can be distracted & protected by their affluence for only so long.

The institution of marriage has already been deeply wounded by divorce of nearly plague levels, widespread non-marital sexual cohabitation and other damaging factors. To redefine it out of existence in law is to make it much more difficult to restore a sound understanding of marriage on which a healthy marriage culture can be rebuilt for the good of all. It is to sacrifice the needs of the poor who are hurt the most when a sound understanding of marriage and sexual morality collapses. It is to give up on the truth that children need both a father and mother and benefit from the security of their love for each other… to be continued.

2. Comments by Ben Anderson: I am not keen enough of politics to judge whether Archbishop Dolan did enough beforehand. However, I do have a good understanding on 2 points I would like to make. # 1 the diocese of Rochester, N. Y. led by bishop Matthew Clark has created an environment where many Catholics feel that they are obliged to support legislation. Many outside New York find that a ridiculous statement, but nevertheless it is true. Homosexuality has been subversively (and even openly at times) by our local Church hierarchy. I’ve heard that the diocese of Albany is as bad with Bishop Hubbard. I can’t speak for the other dioceses as that is beyond by realm of understanding…

3. Comments by GHK: The following is a painful reality analysis: Read from the blog “Nancy Pelosi vs. the Knights of Columbus- Sunday, Oct. 24th, 2010.” Secondly, read the 8 to 10 letters on the blog within the last five days, titled, “Report Cards 1-10 on Bill Press’s Book.” This was posted on the blog and not e-mailed because you receive enough e-mails.

The evidence is absolutely conclusive that the mindset of CINO politicians was the driving force for same sex marriage in Mass., and N.Y. State. What do we do?

George H. Kubeck, Maybe Hugh Hewitt, Mr. John Keenan, O.P., J.D., and J. Peter Nixon can help us.