Catholics sign up, will show up, for same-sex marriage

Posted by Joel Connelly on October 25, 2012 at 3:18 pm

The names of more than 1,000 Catholics will appear Sunday in a full-page newspaper ad endorsing Referendum 74 and same-sex marriage, which is passionately opposed by the church’s four bishops in Washington state.

A group of Jesuit-educated laypersons, the Young Adult Leadership Cohort, will carry the pro-Referendum 74 campaign a step farther by holding a pro-marriage equality demonstration at 4 p.m. Sunday on Marion Street at the north side of Seattle’s St. James Cathedral.

The developments Sunday are the latest in what has been a 10-month push back by Catholic laity, particularly in Seattle, against bishops’ opposition to and use of church resources to campaign against same-sex marriage.

In Washington and elsewhere:

–Two Catholic governors, Chris Gregoire in Washington and Martin O’Malley in Maryland, pushed their legislatures to approve marriage equality legislation. State Sen. Ed Murray, D-Seattle, a practicing Catholic, was chief sponsor in the Washington State Senate.

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