Bishop Tobin Defends Marriage: Gay Activists Fight Religious Exemptions

... Bishop Thomas J. Tobin is a courageous Catholic Bishop. He has stood strong in his defense of the dignity of every human person from conception to natural death as well as his defense of true marriage and the family and society founded upon it. He has also tried to help erring Catholics, including Catholic politicians in his own Diocese, to turn from error and turn toward the truth.

He is faced with the continuing moral erosion which has as one of its bad fruits, the movement to eliminate marriage and the family and society founded upon it by giving a moral and legal equivalency to homosexual relationships. ...On Wednesday of this week the Rhode Island state Senate passed HB 6103 which authorizes same-sex civil unions and gives them the same rights and responsibilities as married couples....

On June 3, 2003 the then Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger issued a directive entitled "Considerations regarding Proposals to Give Legal recognition To Unions Between Homosexual persons." It clearly rejected any effort to give equivalent legal status to homosexual unions. It restated the unbroken tradition of the Catholic Christian Church for two thousand years. It sought to help Bishops to direct Catholics in Public Life...

"There is a cultural revolution underway led by those on the fringes of the homosexual activist community who will stop at nothing less than legal "equivalency" between homosexual unions and true marriage. Having learned from the verbal engineering of the movement to make the taking of innocent life in the womb through abortion "a right", they are master manipulators of the language. They have reframed their anti-marriage movement as a movement for "marriage equality" much like the proponents of abortion succeeded in calling killing the unborn a "choice." ...

"Because civil unions promote an unacceptable lifestyle, undermine the faith of the Church on holy matrimony, and cause scandal and confusion, Catholics may not participate in civil unions. To do so is a very grave violation of the moral law and, thus, seriously sinful. A civil union can never be accepted as a legitimate alternative to matrimony.

"Can there be any doubt that Almighty God will, in His own time and way, pass judgment upon our state, its leaders and citizens, for abandoning His commands and embracing public immorality? I encourage Catholics to pray for God's patience, mercy and forgiveness in these distressing times" (Bishop Tobin)

“Can there be any doubt that Almighty God will, in His own time and way, pass judgment upon our state, its leaders and citizens, for abandoning His commands and embracing public immorality? I encourage Catholics to pray for God’s patience, mercy and forgiveness in these distressing times” (Bishop Tobin)

I wish more Christians and those who care about our society would have the courage to stand up to the homosexual juggernaut like Bishop Tobin. I believe God will indeed judge individuals, states and our nation for this promotion of sexual immorality.

... I believe God will indeed judge individuals, states and our nation for this promotion of sexual immorality.

I think He already is.
I LOVE SARAH TOO!!

How long before a majority of people start seeing what most of us have known all along?

“Gay activism” = “criminalizing Christianity”

4 posted on 07/01/2011 6:17:03 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)

It’s apparent, even scriptural, that we’re seeing the wrath of God on our nation. Romans 1:18-32

5 posted on 07/01/2011 6:18:15 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)

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