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Anti-LGBT cardinal: Catholic church isnt anti-gay and was out-marketed on same sex marriage
By David Ferguson
Saturday, November 30, 2013 15:24 EST
Catholic Cardinal Timothy Dolan said in an interview on Friday that the Catholic Church is caricatured as anti-LGBT, but actually isnt. He went on to say that the institution got out-marketed by same sex marriage advocates, a fact that he regrets.
Dolan was taping an appearance on Meet the Press, which is scheduled to air on Sunday, but excerpts appeared Friday in the New York Times. The 63-year-old cardinal of the Archdiocese of New York appeared to be trying to rehabilitate his formerly fire-breathing stance against same sex relationships and the people who practice them.
Were pro-marriage, were pro-traditional marriage, were not anti-anybody, he said of the Catholic church to interviewer David Gregory.
He went on to say that the U.S. is engaging in a stampede to legalize same sex marriage, and I regret that.
When Gregory asked Dolan if the question is settled, then, he replied, No. I dont think it is. Uh-uh.
However, he said, to paint the church as completely anti-LGBT is unjust and a caricature of what he feels is a nuanced stance in favor of one kind of marriage over another.
In the past, Dolan has said that same sex marriage will cause the destruction of civilization. In March of 2011, he preached against New York Citys LGBT Pride celebration, saying, I think society and culture is at its peril if we presume to tamper with what has been given and already cherished through the history of civilization.
Columnist Paul Brandeis Raushenbush at Huffington Post wrote, First of all, marketing isnt the problem. We know where the Catholic Church bishops stand on the issue as they have been engaged in a full on anti-gay marriage campaign including a recent exorcism against gay marriage in Illinois and using communion as a hostage against same sex marriage in New Jersey, not to mention the firing of a lesbian teacher from a Catholic school in Arkansas after her same sex marriage.
Lets just be very clear here, wrote Raushenbush, if you are against marriage equality you are anti-gay.
Pope Francis has angered and alienated many on the right by appearing to soften the churchs virulently anti-LGBT stance. Rather than openly fight the message of Christian tolerance coming from the Vatican, Dolan may be attempting to soften the publics perception of the church as an institution of historically monolithic bigotry run by child molesters.
Meet the Press airs each Sunday on NBC.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/11/30/anti-lgbt-cardinal-catholic-church-isnt-anti-gay-and-was-out-marketed-on-same-sex-marriage/
Full article posted with permission
MNBrewer
(8,462 posts)People are very well aware of it, and have rejected it!
Swede Atlanta
(3,596 posts)stop shopping at Wal-Mart and stop voting for Republicons he can have his say...
Until then STFU...we could care less what "beanie-boy" has to say. Enough said.
Old Union Guy
(738 posts)Amimnoch
(4,558 posts)His words of "Were pro-marriage, were pro-traditional marriage, were not anti-anybody" would ring true if traditional marriage was actually being attacked. Nobody has made any move to block, stop, curb the rights of heterosexual marriage. Gay marriage in no way, shape, or form reduces heterosexual marriage rights.
If he didn't want to take any part in the debate on our human rights, then he could claim that he wasn't "anti-anybody", but he didn't. He, and his kind have used their pulpits to decry our rights, and that IS anti-gay marriage no matter how he wants to phrase it.