# 3 - U.S. CATHOLIC BISHOPS ON EQUALITY ACT 5

# 3 - U.S. CATHOLIC BISHOPS ON EQUALITY ACT 5

IN PURSUIT OF THE TRUTH - HTTP://WWW.CINOPSBEGONE.BLOGSPOT.COM - WED. OCT. 9/19

"If Christians Don't Personally Engage in Politics. It's All over for America."

Virginian patriot Robert Marshal has a message for a Pro-life and Pro-Marriage Church

Posted by LifeSite, Thu Sep 19, 2019 of Sep 18, 2019 (Lepanto Institute) p. 4-5 of 15

"It appears there has been no news coverage of bishops fraternally correcting those Catholic congressmen who voted for the Equality Act, continuing a lack of public criticism allowing Catholic politicians to publicly vote for and speak if favor of this Act and other morally harmful legislation with no public scrutiny or ecclesiastical penalty.

   
 Lawyers working for the U.S. Catholic Conference and various diocese appear to be more protective of the the Church's tax exempt status than of the moral principles of the Church is ordained to uphold. This is puzzling considering that one of the questions St. Peter will obviously not asked American Catholic bishops in the next life is,"How well did you protect the tax-exempt status of the Church?"  [The bishops are prisoners of lawyers. We need pro-life and pro-marriage Catholic lawyers.]

   
 In 2020, if Democrats maintain the majority in the U.S. House of Representative and win the majority of the U.S. Senate, and if President Donald Trump is defeated in part because of public criticism by the U.S. bishops, it is almost certain that the grossly misnamed "Equality Act" will become law with all of its destructive consequences to the Church &society. [Whose side are the U.S. Catholic Bishops on?]

   
 The very tax-exempt status the Church has carefully sought to protect will be significantly eroded if not totally eliminated, financially impacting parishes, schools, hospitals, food pantries, group homes, shelters, soup kitchens, adoption agencies, etc.

  
  Believing that the First Amendment will protect Catholic programs assumes that the Constitution is a self-executing document. Sexual progressives and liberal lawyers will almost surely use the 14th amendment to claim they are merely seeking "equal protection" and freedom from discrimination.

   Furthermore, the Equality Act removes the protection of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 (RFRA).The Judiciary Committee Report for the Equality Act states: "The Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 (42 U.S.C. 2000bb et seq.) shall not provide a claim concerning, or a defense to a claim under, a covered title, or provide a basis for challenging the application or enforcement of a covered title."...

DUTIES OF A BISHOP

    "Are our bishops, when confronted with obviously anti-Catholic legislation, required to correct politicians, especially Catholic politicians, who support such policies, or is private criticism enough? In October, 2004, Pope St. John Paul II met in Rome with representatives of the U.S. Catholic bishops where he spelled out the bishops' duties:" remember that your sacred responsibility to teach  sanctify and govern cannot be surrendered to anyone else: it is your personal vocation."

     
 Regarding life, marriage and God's creation of "male and female," much more could b taught through pastoral letters, Prayers of the Faithful offered during Mass, notices in the Church bulletins, letters read at Mass ... Some of the most powerful witnesses in defense of human life have been open about their past abortion wounds.... I offer the experience of one Christian pastor who feared feared that if he mentioned abortion in a sermon, ... It wasn't until after he counseled numerous distraught women from his church, that he realized he could have spared these women deep suffering if he had spoken the truth earlier. He subsequently changed his thinking and his sermons.

Informing Catholics in the pew about proposed unjust laws that will impact their church, their families and society should not be considered controversial or "political." Sharing information in the form of petitions, pulpit announcements, form letters, and educational flyers would definitely help motivate and educate Catholics to oppose harmful legislation and support helpful legislation. (example: SB 70)

....Thankfully, several cardinal and bishops, including Cardinal Raymond Burke, Bishop Thomas Daly, Archbishop Thomas Tobin, Bishop Thomas Paprocki, Archbishop Charles Chaput, Archbishop Joseph Nauman, and others understand the scandal and confusion caused by "Catholic" legislators who publicity support egregious policies contrary to our faith. They have fraternally corrected those who violate serious moral principles..."    

George H. Kubeck