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Pope Benedict XVI has appointed a new Archbishop of San Francisco: Salvatore Cordileone. Though his name is not yet widespread, Cordileone, currently the Bishop of Oakland, has already had massive success pushing an anti-equality agenda: he was the heart of the Catholic Churchs strategy to pass Proposition 8 in California, which eliminated marriage equality for millions of Americans.
In 2008, Cordileone and a select cadre of Catholic leaders decided that their best chance to end marriage equality was to pass an amendment to the state constitution. Cordileone found the first major donor and built a lasting fundraising network for the group. He brought in an organization to lead the petition. He activated a network of Californias Catholic churches, and helped craft the Prop 8 messaging campaign, even using focus groups. The campaign was successful in passing Prop 8, making Cordileone a primary reason Californians are currently denied marriage equality. After the amendment passed, Cordileone bragged to a Catholic radio show that gay Americans never saw him coming, and called gay marriage a Satanic plot by the Evil One to annihilate morality.
Cordileone has continued to be one of Americas most prominent anti-gay Catholic officials. In January 2011, Cordileone was named the chairman of the U.S. Bishops Ad Hoc Committee for the Defense of Marriage, a group dedicated to using religious influence to deny marriage equality. Cordileone is one of only 18 American bishops who have signed the Manhattan Declaration, a pledge to protect the sanctity of life, traditional marriage, and religious liberty, even if doing so means violating the law.
Pope Benedicts choice of Cordileone is exactly wrong for the diocese of San Francisco, a city with a storied history of LGBT pride. It is a further step in the Vaticans dedication to use Catholic doctrine to keep LGBT Americans suppressed and with fewer rights. In June, the Church publicly condemned Sister Margaret Farley, who wrote a book approving of marriage equality and advocating for comprehensive sex education. Cordileone can be relied on to side with the Vatican in such rebukes of reason and equality, and for that, the Church rewards him.
http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2012/07/27/599541/pope-benedict-xvi-names-viciously-anti-gay-priest-as-archbishop-of-san-francisco/?mobile=nc
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)been that way and probably always will be. Much of religion is politics, money, control, persecution and authoritarianism. In my book it's synonymous with evilness.
rurallib
(62,448 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)damn evil. Someone tells me they're religious and all of the red flags go up for me, and I don't trust them one bit. When I had occasion to hire contractors for some of my jobs if they pulled out the religion card they went right off the list.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)backscatter712
(26,355 posts)He likes 'em young. Reeeeeeal young...
Archae
(46,345 posts)Screw Godwin's law, Ratzinger was a Nazi, he still is a Nazi.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)He was the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. That's the modern name for what they used to call the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition. In other words he had Torquemada's old job...
Raster
(20,998 posts)...priests from one parish to another to outrun scandal. Ratzi the nazi not only KNEW pedophile priests were abusing children, he helped shield them from legal consequences and willingly foisted known pedophile priests upon unsuspecting children and communities.
Vicar of Christ on Earth? I think not.
Initech
(100,102 posts)AndreaCG
(2,331 posts)It is absolutely villainous.
Initech
(100,102 posts)Curtland1015
(4,404 posts)That's the most mob-ish name I've ever heard!
nichomachus
(12,754 posts)Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)nichomachus
(12,754 posts)I wouldn't piss on him