"Today the Supreme Court
is Wrong Again!” warns Archbishop Joseph E Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky
by Susan Fox
The U.S. Supreme Court legalized
same sex “marriage” in a decision called Obergefell
v. Hodges on Black Friday June 26,
2015.
It’s another chapter in
Grimm’s Fairy Tales. Chastity remains a virtue and God made them male and
female. (Gen 5:2, Mark 10:6) Fairy Tale Writers on the Supreme Court cannot change
reality although they are creating a hostile living environment for believing
Christians and innocent children. Any civil law that contradicts Natural Law
causes injustice. It never fixes anything.
“Today the Court is wrong
again. It is profoundly immoral and unjust for the government to declare that
two people of the same sex can constitute a marriage,” said Archbishop Joseph
E. Kurtz, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, adding that forcing the states to license same-sex
“marriage” is a tragic error that will harm the most vulnerable among us.
He went on to say, “Regardless
of what a narrow majority of the Supreme Court may declare at this moment in
history, the nature of the human person and marriage remains unchanged and
unchangeable. Just as Roe v. Wade did not settle the question of abortion over
forty years ago, Obergefell v. Hodges does not settle the question of marriage
today. Neither decision is rooted in the truth, and as a result, both will
eventually fail.”
And
guess what papal encyclical he quotes to prove his point? Laudato Si, the much maligned environmental scribbling from Pope Francis I!
“The unique meaning of
marriage as the
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Pope Francis' "integral ecology" includes marriage
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union of one man and one woman is inscribed in our bodies as
male and female. The protection of this meaning is a critical dimension of the
“integral ecology” that Pope Francis has called us to promote,” Archbishop Kutz
said.
Environmentalists,
you can’t embrace homosexual “marriage,” and expect Catholics to think you
actually love the earth! Tree-hugging heterosexuals, you can’t use
contraception and expect us to believe you respect the environment. Contraceptive hormones appear increasingly in our drinking water causing fish populations to die
in three short generations while people drinking hormone-laced water have
unexplained plummeting sperm counts, soaring incidences of testicular cancer, infertility and
childhood gender confusion.
The Catholic Church encourages every person -- whether
they experience same-sex or opposite-sex attractions -- to live chastely, and
in marriage to be fruitful. And with the recent publication of Laudato Si, we now know this is good for the environment.
While bathing the White House
in rainbow colors Friday night, U.S. President
Barack Obama applauded the Supreme Court decision saying the government was
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| White House bathed in Rainbow Colors on Friday night |
committed to “equality and diversity.” He subtly suggested that those who have
embraced the idea of same-sex unions should “reach back and help others join
them.”
Obama’s speech before Notre
Dame University’s graduating class of 2009 contained the same subtle hint that
there was only one right side to the abortion question. While complementing the
youth present for their pro-life values, which he opposes, he reminded them
that they could become a “crossroads,” a person of faith who admits doubt.
“Remember, too, that the ultimate irony of faith is that it necessarily admits
doubt.”
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"What difference does it make (why 4 Americans were
killed in Benghazi?)"-Hillary Clinton 1/23/2013 |
U.S. Presidential Hopeful Hillary
Clinton is not as subtle. She has said that “deep-seated cultural codes,
religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed” in order to protect
access to abortion. What hubris! What makes her think she CAN think her way out
of a paper bag?
Abortion and same sex
“marriage” have now both been legalized through tyrannical judicial fiat in the
United States. Both so-called “laws” need to be resisted in every setting in
the United States – abortion mills, hospitals, marriage tribunals, notary public, licensing offices, wedding
florists, bakeries, photographers, churches and all public media. The law won’t
go into effect without the cooperation of U.S. Citizens. Don't cooperate.
Good
Catholics actually don’t have a choice. “Human law is law inasmuch as it is in
conformity with right reason and thus derives from the eternal law. But when a
law is contrary to reason, it is called an unjust law; but in this case it
ceases to be a law and becomes instead an act of violence,” wrote the prophet
Pope Saint John Paul II in the Gospel of Life concerning legal abortion and
euthanasia.
But same
sex marriage is contrary to right reason as well from the
simple fact that same sex relations are not structurally complementary, and
cannot naturally produce children. “There is no obligation in conscience to obey such
laws; instead there is a grave and clear obligation to oppose them by
conscientious objection,” Pope John Paul II admonished us.
Detroit Archbishop Allen Vigneron along with Vatican advisor Edward Peters say that
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| Detroit Archbishops Allen Vigneron |
Catholics who promote same sex "marriage" should not receive Holy Communion. The Archbishop told the Detroit Free Press Sunday that Catholics who receive Communion while advocating gay "marriage" would "logically bring shame for a double-dealing that is not unlike perjury." About 30 other U.S. bishops have said that pro-abortion or pro-gay "marriage" Catholics should not present themselves for communion.
“Mandating marriage
redefinition across the country is a tragic error that harms the common good
and most vulnerable among us, especially children. The law has a duty to
support every child’s basic right to be raised, where possible, by his or her
married mother and father in a stable home,” Archbishop Kurtz said. See: A Child’s Right to Mom and Dad: Why Kids of Gays Oppose Gay Adoption
Pope Francis spoke about the same matter on April 8: “Children also pay the price for immature
unions and irresponsible separations: they are the first victims; they suffer
the outcome of a culture of exaggerated individual rights, and then the
children become prematurely precocious. They often absorb the violence they are
not able to “ward off” and before the very eyes of adults are forced to grow
accustomed to degradation.”
A cursory reading of Jephthah’s
Daughters:
Innocent Casualties in the War for Family “Equality,” demonstrates that parental chastity is essential for healthy human development,
and a child should not be taken from his natural parents to satisfy the hunger of
a same-sex couple for parenthood. Jephthat’s Daughters Co-Author Rivka Edelman, raised by a female same-sex couple, said, “Children
are not a right.” Because of their difficult upbringing, Edelman – along with
numerous other adult children of same sex couples – oppose same-sex “marriage”
which comes with the right to same-sex adoption and surrogacy. The Catholic Church would add,
“Children are a gift to marriage.”
However, many people, who self-identify as homosexual, do not
understand this viewpoint. Why can’t two people who love each other get married
and have children? They have created new hashtags on Twitter to celebrate the mindless
Obergefell v. Hodges decision: #LoveWins, #LoveisLove,
#IDo and #June26.
They see the matter simply as an injustice: Opposite-sex
attracted couples can marry. Why can’t same-sex couples? Opposite-sex attracted
couples can naturally have children. People who self-identify as homosexual must
have the same right to children even though they are involved in a biologically
fruitless activity. They look at the Church’s refusal to bless same-sex unions
as a form of hatred.
I tweeted the opinion of Dissenting Supreme Court Justice Antonin
Scalia, who said the Obergefell v. Hodges decision represents a “threat to democracy”
and nothing but “judicial Putsch” – a violent and underhanded attempt to
overthrow our government. And one man tweeted back that Justice Scalia “hated
gays.”
This response makes sense if you understand that many confuse their
activity with their identity. With respect to homosexuality, they often believe
they were “born that way,” “can’t change,” and “I’m gay.” The Catholic Church
encourages us instead to find our identity in Jesus Christ, or at the very
least in our own personhood, i.e. I’m not “straight.” I am a child of God. I am a person.
“This is quite possibly one of the most difficult topics for people to
understand,” said “Andrew” in With Open Hearts
published by Pursuit of Truth Ministries. (With
Open Hearts is approved both by the local ordinary and by Courage, an international apostolate of the
Catholic Church, which ministers to persons with same-sex attractions and their
families.)
“Many of us at one point struggled with understanding why the
Church would ever try to prevent two people from loving each other. That is
where our minds and hearts were at before we encountered Christ, who planted in
our hearts an unceasing desire to grow in virtue and holiness.”
“Andrew” admits that once members of his ministry came to know
Christ they “disengaged from unchaste romantic and or sexualized relationships
of all types - including those with same-sex partners.”
“We share this to help people come to understand that we were
motivated not out of "fear of misbehaving in the eyes of the Church"
but rather because we love Jesus Christ,” Andrew said.
“With regards to same-sex marriage in particular, we again, came
to realize that the Church was not inventing its own truth. Rather it was
upholding objectively truths about the order of creation.”
Therefore Pursuit of
Truth came to understand:
Male and Female Ideal for Fruitful Marriage
“1. It is an objective truth that there is a particular type of
union by which the intended purposes of our reproductive systems can be
completely fulfilled. That is in a union between a male (XY) and a female (XX).
The Church doesn't invent this.”
Chaste Living is
necessary for Healthy Child Rearing
“2. There is a particular type of union that provides the greatest
potential degree of stability for child rearing, and that is a set of parents
who are not damaging each other's neurochemical bonding mechanisms by having
multiple partners, but who rather are enhancing their bonding to one another
through the practice of chaste living. The Church doesn't invent this.”
A Female Cannot Give Perfectly What a Male Can & Vice Versa
“3. Males and females have unique gifts to offer the world - AND
their children - including conditioning on how to grow relationally with others,
as the brains of males and females respond differently to the same relational
stimuli. That is, a female cannot perfectly give what a male can give, and a
male cannot perfectly give what a female can give.”
Every Child Has the
Right to a
Mother and Father
“...As well, the Church recognizes that while it takes at the
very least a male and a female for there to be the structural openness to new
life, it takes one male and one female, to bring about the
likelihood of the most stable and well-bonded parental relationship. And
because a stable and well-bonded parental relationship leads to the highest
likelihood of a relationally stable environment into which a child may grow, it
is this type of family structure that the Church recognizes to be most beneficial
for a child. Again, the Church doesn't invent this.”
So Pope Francis and Archbishop Kurtz
comments do not represent hate speech against people who have chosen to self-identify as homosexual. They did not invent the facts on which our Catholic
faith is based, nor did they create the way that our bodies work. But the
Supreme Court has twice now violated the U.S. Constitution and disregarded
children’s rights in favor of selfish adults, both in Roe v Wade and Obergefell v. Hodges.
This fact was not lost on Justice Scalia,
who
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Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia disgusted
with same-sex "marriage" legalization |
had many humorous and sarcastic comments on the idiocy of Obergefell v. Hodges: "If,
even as the price to be paid for a fifth vote, I ever joined an opinion for the
Court that began: ‘The Constitution promises liberty to all within its reach, a
liberty that includes certain specific rights that allow persons, within a
lawful realm, to define and express their identity,’ I would hide my head in a
bag. The Supreme Court of the United States has descended from the disciplined
legal reasoning of John Marshall... to the mystical aphorisms of the fortune
cookie."
And he also said, "Really? Who
ever thought that intimacy and spirituality (whatever that means) were
freedoms? And if intimacy is, one would think Freedom of Intimacy is abridged
rather than expanded by marriage. Ask the nearest hippie. Expression, sure
enough, is a freedom, but anyone in a long-lasting marriage will attest that
that happy state constricts, rather than expands, what one can prudently
say." Laugh Out Loud. That’s not my marriage!
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Louisville Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz,
a rising star in the American Catholic Church |
Archbishop
Kurtz concluded his statement on the institution of marriage beautifully, “Jesus
Christ, with great love, taught unambiguously that from the beginning marriage
is the lifelong union of one man and one woman. As Catholic bishops, we follow
our Lord and will continue to teach and to act according to this truth.”
“I
encourage Catholics to move forward with faith, hope, and love: faith in the
unchanging truth about marriage, rooted in the immutable nature of the human
person and confirmed by divine revelation; hope that these truths will once
again prevail in our society, not only by their logic, but by their great
beauty and manifest service to the common good; and love for all our neighbors,
even those who hate us or would punish us for our faith and moral convictions.”
“Lastly, I
call upon all people of good will to join us in proclaiming the goodness,
truth, and beauty of marriage as rightly understood for millennia, and I ask
all in positions of power and authority to respect the God-given freedom to
seek, live by, and bear witness to the truth.”
