Cardinal Dolan On Supreme Court Ruling: ‘A Tragic Day For Marriage And Our Nation’
Cardinal Timothy Dolan today said that the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on same-sex marriage is “a profound injustice” that threatens the “preservation of liberty and justice.”
“Today is a tragic day for marriage and our nation,” Dolan, the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) and thus the head of the Roman Catholic Church in America.
“The Court got it wrong,” Dolan added, in a joint statement with Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco, chair of the U.S. bishops’ Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defense of Marriage. “The preservation of liberty and justice requires that all laws, federal and state, respect the truth, including the truth about marriage.”
In typical false-framing and fear-mongering, the pair continued:
The common good of all, especially our children, depends upon a society that strives to uphold the truth of marriage. Now is the time to redouble our efforts in witness to this truth. These decisions are part of a public debate of great consequence. The future of marriage and the well-being of our society hang in the balance.
Now that the Supreme Court has issued its decisions, with renewed purpose we call upon all of our leaders and the people of this good nation to stand steadfastly together in promoting and defending the unique meaning of marriage: one man, one woman, for life. We also ask for prayers as the Court’s decisions are reviewed and their implications further clarified.
Cardinal Dolan did not join with over 200 radical religious extremists pledging what could amount to anarchy, that they will not stand for any “redefinition of marriage.
Yesterday, on his blog, Dolan called National Organization For Marriage (NOM) co-founder “a friend of mine,” whose “insights [are] always timely and on target!”
But Dolan recently has either ignored or attacked the LGBT community, calling for a month of anti-gay sermons in the wake of rising anti-LGBT violence, and using the NYPD to prohibit from Sunday worship services gay Catholics by barring their entry into NYC’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral, the iconic home of the Roman Catholic Church in New York.

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