PROVIDENCE, RI (Catholic Online) – Bishop Thomas J. Tobin is a faithful and courageous Catholic Bishop. He has stood strong in his defense of the dignity of every human person from conception to natural death as well as his defense of true marriage and the family and society founded upon it. He has also tried to help erring Catholics, including Catholic politicians in his own Diocese, to turn from error and turn toward the truth.
This good Bishop is now faced with the continuing moral erosion which has as one of its bad fruits, the movement to eliminate marriage and the family and society founded upon it by giving a moral and legal equivalency to homosexual relationships. Last week New York passed the “Marriage Equality Act” which uses the Police power of the State to force a legal equivalency between homosexual partnerships and authentic marriage between a man and a woman. On Wednesday of this week the Rhode Island state Senate passed HB 6103 which authorizes same-sex civil unions and gives them the same rights and responsibilities as married couples.
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The legislation contained “religious exemptions”. However, a group of homosexual equivalency activists calling themselves “Marriage Equality Rhode Island”, purporting to represent the “LGBTI” (Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, Transgender and Intersex) community issued this statement opposing the legislation precisely because of those religious exemptions:
“We are extremely disappointed that the Senate brazenly ignored the commonsense objections raised by equality and civil rights leaders here and across the country. This civil union bill contains dangerous and discriminatory language that, without question, will cause significant harm to countless gay and lesbian couples in loving, committed relationships, and we will continue to fight it through whatever means are necessary.
“Furthermore, we renew our request that the governor veto this hurtful and ill conceived bill. To not do so would be a slap in the face to the gay and lesbian community, and every Rhode Islander who cares about equal rights and protections for all our state’s citizens.”
Notice how woefully intolerant these new cultural revolutionaries are of those who disagree with their brave new world.
Bishop Tobin Defends Marriage: Gay Activists Fight Religious Exemptions
30 Thursday Jun 2011
Posted Catholic News, Catholic Teaching
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