Little Rock Catholic Bishop Plays Incest Card in Marriage Case
September 26, 2014
by Liz Halloran
Today HRC denounced Bishop Anthony Taylor of the Catholic Diocese of Little Rock for writing a legal brief in which he invoked incest in urging the Arkansas Supreme Court to keep the state’s ban on same-sex marriage.
Taylor’s petition carried the fetid odor of anti-LGBT politician Rick Santorum on his worst day, suggesting that allowing committed same-sex couples to marry would lead to unions of “couples such as mother and daughter, sister and sister, or brother and brother.”
The bishop also took an unusual step for a Catholic Church leader, arguing that the will of voters should determine the rights of LGBT couples seeking to marry -- an astonishing assertion in a state where interracial marriage was banned until the late 1960s, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the practice unconstitutional.
“In a state with a history of oppression, we would hope that religious leaders above all would understand that defending freedoms under the Constitution protects people in the margins -- those who have rarely been protected by popular vote,” said Lisbeth Melendez Rivera, director of Latino/a and Catholic Initiatives at the HRC Foundation.
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