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Response to Bishop Richard Malone on Conscience in a Catholic’s Life

Posted on January 19th, 2010 by Anne Underwood

© Frank O'Hara, January 15, 2010

Bishop Richard Malone wrote a column in the January-February issue of the Portland, Maine diocesan magazine Harvest about conscience.  In it he sets forth a very narrow view  of the role of conscience in a Catholic’s life. http://www.portlanddiocese.net/harvestcurrentpastissues. This response presents a broader view of the role of conscience. 

Slim Majority Now Supports Same-Sex Marriage: series of studies are confirming

Posted on March 28th, 2011 by Anne Underwood

 

Slim majority back gay marriage, Post-ABC poll says

By Sandhya Somashekhar and Peyton Craighill, Friday, March 18, 2011

A slim majority of Americans now support gay marriage, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.

The results underscore the nation’s increasingly tolerant views about homosexuals, and parallel a string of recent legal and legislative victories for gay rights advocates.

Five years ago, at 36 percent, support for gay marriage barely topped a third of all Americans. Now, 53 percent say gay marriage should be legal, marking the first time in Post-ABC polling that a majority has said so.

“This is very consistent with a lot of other polling data we’ve seen and the general momentum we’ve seen over the past year and a half,” said Evan Wolfson, president of Freedom to Marry, a leading pro-gay-marriage group. “As people have come to understand this is about loving, committed families dealing, like everyone, with tough times, they understand how unfair it is to treat them differently.”

Catholic College to Offer Same-Sex Partner Benefits

Posted on March 28th, 2011 by Anne Underwood

 

Marquette University in Milwaukee will begin offering domestic partner benefits to its employees beginning next year.

The Associated Press

 

MILWAUKEE —

Marquette University in Milwaukee will begin offering domestic partner benefits to its employees beginning next year.

The original story can be found at: 
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2014597429_apwimarquettepartnerbenefits1stldwritethru.html

Catholics for Equality and Catholics for Marriage Equality Issue Joint Statement to LGBT Youth

Posted on November 9th, 2010 by Anonymous

 

Multicultural Youth

 

Catholics for Equality and Catholics for Marriage Equality
Issue Joint Statement to LGBT Youth

 

WASHINGTON - Catholics for Equality and Catholics for Marriage Equality, with all people of good will, lament the multiple tragic deaths of gay youths. As Catholics, we confess that our personal indifference and institutional church prejudices have contributed to the morbid despair of these and many other LGBT youth.

Catholics for Marriage Equality Urges You To Support the Preble Street Resource Center!

Posted on March 25th, 2010 by c4me

For Immediate Release
Thursday, March 25, 2010

Contact: Anne Underwood or Charles Martel
Email: info@catholicsformarriageequality.net

Preble Street Resource Center

The original story can be found at: 
http://catholicsformarriageequality.net/preble

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Posted on March 7th, 2010 by Anne Underwood

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Catholics for Marriage Equality Celebrates California Prop 8 Court Ruling

Posted on August 5th, 2010 by c4me

Catholics for Marriage Equality celebrates California Federal District Court Judge Vaughn Walker's ruling that barring same-sex couples from civil marriage is unconstitutional. He found, based on compelling evidence, that same-sex marriages are no different from heterosexual marriages in their potential for life-long loving bonds that produce, nurture and honor the family commitments central to our civic and religious ideals. The ruling clearly addresses only civil marriage rights and responsibilities. The Catholic Church retains its constitutional right to determine whose marriages it solemnizes  whose marriages it deems valid. It is time for our Catholic hierarchy to respect the constitutional rights of states and of other faith traditions to marry same-sex couples. Civil marriage is not within the ecclesiastical  jurisdiction of the Catholic hierarchy. 

A Defense of Same-Sex Marriage, Prof. Daniel Mcguire

Posted on February 3rd, 2010 by Anne Underwood

A Catholic Defense of Same Sex Marriage

Prof. Daniel C. Maguire

The Catholic Church is beginning to rediscover what it once knew; that not all persons are heterosexual, that many people are homosexual and that this is just fine. In the past, the Church accepted homosexuality more openly and even had liturgies to celebrate same sex unions.1 There was a recognition that different sexual orientations are clearly part of God's plan for creation-some people are heterosexual and some are homosexual-this is the way God made us and we have no right to criticize God.

From our Faith Tradition: Refutations to Bishops' Political Opinions

Posted on January 23rd, 2010 by Anne Underwood

Response to the Bishop

This summer the Diocese of Portland (Maine) produced inserts that were placed in all Parish bulletins for 6 consecutive weeks. The Bishop used distortions of civil law cases, fears for parental rights, threats to public schools, etc. to scare people from supporting same-sex marriage. Each argument has been and continues to be used in any state where marriage equality is considered.  Below are responses by a Catholic lawyer to those inserts.
Please click any of the resources below to download a PDF to print or share.
 

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