Obama Declares War on Marriage, the Catholic Church
President Obama, the man trusted by the USCCB to do the "right thing" on health care, has declared war on marriage and, by implication, the Catholic Church.
Speaking to the nation's leading homosexual rights lobbying group, the Human Rights Campaign, Obama said:
You will see a time in which we as a nation finally recognize relationships between two men or two women as just as real and admirable as relationships between a man and a woman.
As Deacon Keith Fournier reports and comments, "The leading voice for this Cultural Revolution is now President Barack Obama."
The question becomes whether or not the leadership of the Catholic Church, both bishops and laity, are going to respond vigorously and loudly to Obama's direct challenge to one of its non-negotiable teachings.
How can the USCCB remain silent when the President of the United States said he wants Congress to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act?
I support ensuring that committed gay couples have the same rights and responsibilities afforded to any married couple in this country. I believe strongly in stopping laws designed to take rights away and passing laws that extend equal rights to gay couples.
I've required all agencies in the federal government to extend as many federal benefits as possible to LCBT families as the current law allows. And I've called on Congress to repeal the so-called Defense of Marriage Act and to pass the Domestic Partners Benefits and Obligations Act. And we must all stand together against divisive and deceptive efforts to feed people's lingering fears for political and ideological gain.
The "so-called" Defense of Marriage Act? That "so-called" is the sound of contempt toward the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim understanding of marriage. As Deacon Fournier commented, "We now stand in a precarious place in the nation we love."
Cardinal George recently said of Obama, "Some of his policies, we think, are simply wrong," and adds, "What must be done is to criticize the politics of the government." I have yet to hear the bishops take up this latest attack on core Catholic belief, but I assume some sort of response is forthcoming.
At some point in the near future, one individual bishop after another will begin to speak out on the "Cultural Revolution" being lead by Obama, and more and more this nation's Catholics will recognize the imminent and unprecedented danger of the Obama administration.
The bishops' desire for health care and immigration reform will then no longer moderate their public criticism of Obama's aggressive efforts to redefine marriage and make abortion a federal entitlement.
Perhaps the upcoming bishop's pastoral on marriage -- still a month away -- will provide an opportunity for more pointed comment on Obama's threat to the Defense of Marriage Act.
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What a strangely titled article.
Marriage is firstly a civil matter, as marriage licenses are issued by and recorded in town halls not church halls, or mosques, or temples in America.
And to the marriage police and sexually phobic, please find something else to do with your time because life's just to short. Find love.
Cheers, Joe Mustich, Justice of the Peace,
Washington, Connecticut, USA.
"President Obama, the man trusted by the USCCB to do the "right thing" on health care , has declared war on marriage and, by implication, the Catholic Church."
President Obama was elected by US citizens and was not "trusted by the US Conference of Catholic Bishops".
While you could claim that anyone who follows evidence and reason is by doing so declaring war on superstition, it is actually superstition that is constantly at war with evidence and reason.
Mr. Hudson's opening line in this article is therefore pure nonsense.
There is no evidence for any supernatural being and that includes the catholic god .
Morality comes from our evolutionary past: the golden rule (don't do to others what you don't want done to yourself).
Luckily morality keeps evolving despite religions (not because of them) although after the fact they often claim that they were advancing morality.
Examples: equal rights of man and women , accepting mixed- race marriages, women's rights to vote , ... Same sex marriage is next, whether religions like it or not.
Obama may not be right about everything he has said and done, but he is trying to be the President of all the people of the United States. And he is human so he will make mistakes, unlike a lot of these comment makers who seem to think they are beyond reproach.
I have wondered why if there are so many people out there that can point out all the mistakes that are made, why are they not doing something to help the issues instead of running off at the mouth. Easy to criticise, and do nothing.
Just because former Dictator Bush did not change his mind does not make his decisions right. I personally appreciate all the efforts that President Obama is making.
"I am a fierce supporter of domestic-partnership and civil-union laws. I am not a supporter of gay marriage as it has been thrown about, primarily just as a strategic issue. I think that marriage , in the minds of a lot of voters, has a religious connotation....What I'm saying is that strategically, I think we can get civil unions passed....I think that to the extent that we can get the rights, I'm less concerned about the name...."
~Barack Obama, 2004
http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/gay/lesbian/news/ARTICLE.php?AID=20437
"I favor legalizing same-sex marriages, and would fight efforts to prohibit such marriages."
~Barack Obama, 2004
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Perspectives/Default.aspx?id=653242
Obama and Biden both opposed Same- sex marriage in 2008, when campaigning.
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/issues/issues.samesexmarriage .html
Now he wants Congress to repeal DOMA? Which only allows states sovereignty to decide for themselves whether or not they want to legalize it?
Make up your pandering mind, Obama. Criminy.
The plural of 'anecdote' is not 'data'.
It sounds like he has. His stand as of late is different that these older ones. Are you saying the President cannot change his mind?
I wish Bush would've changed his mind about the Iraq war.
If he is now saying that he is wants to repeal DOMA then that sounds like a stand. A much better attack on the president would to not care what he said because he can't follow through anyways.
You think he changed his mind and now is for gay marriage ?
In 1996, they thought he made up his mind.
In 2004, they thought he made up his mind.
In 2008, they thought he made up his mind.
Now, you think he has made up his mind.
Lol. Ok.
The plural of 'anecdote' is not 'data'.
Really glad I could make you chuckle. Yes, I do believe he has made up his mind on this. He wants it to get done.
If Obama really wants to end DOMA why doesn't he stop his Justice Department lawyers from defending the law ? Or sign an executive order ending Don't Ask Don't Tell in the military ? He gives good speeches but.
It would be rather bad form for the President to just order a law to be ignored. Far better to have DOMA and DADT overturned by congress and enshrined in law then it would be to use an executive order (which could be overturned by a later president just as easily).
Congress is slow. Obama could get rid of both DOMA and DADT, and then Congress could just catch up. Ignoring an unconstitutional law is not bad form.This is about making empty promises. At some point Obama is going to have to stop giving speeches and do something.