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http://www.phillymag.com/news/2014/06/16/philly-archdiocese-sponsoring-march-marriage-d-c/Philly Archdiocese Sponsoring March for Marriage in D.C.
Archbishop Chaput urges parishioners to join bus fleet for national rally.
By Joel Mathis | June 16, 2014
Gay marriage may have arrived in Pennsylvania, but the debate isnt over: The Archdiocese of Philadelphia is co-sponsoring a national March for Marriage rally in Washington D.C., promising to keep alive the churchs opposition to the states new marriage equality.
Archbishop Charles Chaput urged parishioners to join a bus fleet headed to D.C. for Thursday's rally. This is a crucial opportunity for Philadelphia Catholics to show their support for the family and for marriage as a permanent union of one man and one woman," he said in his column at CatholicPhilly.com.
"This is a moment to show our support for the nature of the family and the integrity of marriage as foundation stones of our life as a nation," he added. "Please make every effort this year to join the March for Marriage." A bus from every county in the archdiocese is being sent to the march.
AP, meanwhile, notes that anti-gay-marriage forces have lost four statewide elections in the last year as well as a dozen court cases, with no rulings in their favor. "Faced with these developments, some longtime opponents of gay marriage now say that its nationwide legalization via a Supreme Court ruling is inevitable," the wire service reports. "Others refuse to concede, and some leaders of that cohort will be rallying Thursday at a March for Marriage in Washington that they hope will draw many thousands." (Associated Press)
randys1
(16,286 posts)Bullshit, yes it is.
What isnt over is the hate and intolerance from bigoted and ignorant tools.
But you know, every time I think about ragging on the idiot American Christian bigots, and they deserve being ragged on, I think of the other religions and cultures around the world which are as bad or worse when it comes to Gay rights and just the right to live, let alone get married and so on.
The human condition is still very much back in the Stone Age, when you think about it.
I mean people, by the billions, still look up in the sky, sort of, and pray to an invisible man or something, for any number of reasons.
How can certain humans be so advanced beyond that nonsense and so many others not, including those who think a Gay person should be executed for the crime of being Gay.
How many more decades before all human beings treat all other human beings equal, regardless of whether they are Gay, Transgender, Bi, Str8t, Muslim, Jewish, Christian or whatever
How many more?