NY Priest "Apologizes" for Saying Children are Often the "Seducer"

[Zorra]

34. "We" are the people who believe that everyone was created equal and are endowed

by our creator (or endowed by virtue of existence) with certain inalienable rights, like the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

I have a question: Do you support marriage equality?

Because the official position of the Catholic Church is that it does not. Yes, there are, and have been, many awesome, decent people who are Catholic, and I believe that James Martin is one of them. Unfortunately, his opinions are not generally shared by the leadership of the Catholic Church. And these awesome, decent people continue to support an organization that promotes inequality and legalized bigotry.

I really don't care what anyone believes, that's their choice, and I honor it, as long as this belief does not cause harm to others. Unfortunately, the Catholic Church is deliberately advocating for the persecution and legal inequality of innocent people in the US and around the world.

And that is simply flat out wrong. It's really, really wrong.

I have every right and reason in the world to speak out against any bigots or bigoted organizations who are actively victimizing a substantial segment of the population of this country.

Pope Condemns Marriage Equality in Speech to U.S. Bishops

In a Friday Vatican address to visiting American bishops, Pope Benedict XVI condemned the growing push for marriage equality in the United States, AFP reports.

“Sexual differences cannot be dismissed as irrelevant to the definition of marriage," said Pope Benedict, who warned of "the powerful political and cultural currents seeking to alter the legal definition of marriage.”

That's real Pontiff-icating. Pun intended.

"Choose your enemies carefully, for they are what you become."

My enemies are those who choose to promote, and who are actively responsible for, the perpetuation of ignorance, hypocrisy, fear, violence, aggression, death, destruction, suffering, hatred, poverty, inequality, and injustice.

When they make these choices, they choose me, and people like me, to be their enemy. We are compelled by our natures to try to prevent bullies of all stripe from harming others in every way we reasonably can.

That's why most progressives are attracted to the Democratic Party.