U.S. Bishops Offer Support to Mormons Targeted for Defending Marriage, Backing California's Prop 8

USCCB ^ | November 25, 2008 | Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz

[GonzoII]

November 25, 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

U.S. Bishops Offer Support to Mormons Targeted for Defending Marriage, Backing California's Proposition Eight

WASHINGTON—The U.S. bishops offered "prayerful support and steadfast solidarity" to the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints in the face of attacks on the church and its members for working to pass California's Proposition 8, which bans same-sex marriage.

The support was offered in a November 21 letter from Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz, chairman of the bishops' Ad Hoc Committee for the Defense of Marriage, to Thomas S. Monson, president of the Mormon Church. The letter follows.

Dear President Monson,

On behalf of the members of the Ad Hoc Committee for the Defense of Marriage of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, I am writing to express prayerful support and steadfast solidarity with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its members in view of recent events.

We have watched with great distress in recent weeks as some members of society have reacted intemperately, and sometimes even violently, to the decision of the voters in support of Proposition 8 in California. We have been especially troubled by the reports of explicit and direct targeting of your church personnel and facilities as the objects of hostility and abuse. We pray that prudence and healing may prevail.

The members of the Committee offer you our profound gratitude for your role in the broad alliance of faith communities and other people of good will who joined together to protect marriage, while at the same time, witnessing to the honor and respect due to every human person created in the image and likeness of God.

Fraternally yours in Christ,

Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz
Archbishop of Louisville Chairman, Ad Hoc Committee for the Defense of Marriage

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To my thinking, “support” would include a good supply of pepper spray and disinfectant. That, and a cadre of good attorneys.

[pray4liberty]

The San Francisco Gate has a database of the contributors to Prop 8; the small liberal papers, namely Random Lengths in San Pedro California, is publicizing the names of the contributors and their employers. Talk about intolerant! And Hateful! And Low-down!

I hear there's a "run on guns" in California.

If my name was on the "list" I'd buy a gun and apply for a concealed-carry permit citing that I am now targeted by violent perverts and have good reason to be in fear for my life. I would use that newspaper as a form of proof, and I would state for the record that if anything ever happened to me by being denied said permit, that I will instruct my Executor to sue the State of California, Dianne Feinstein, Barbara Boxer, and the anti-Prop 8 crowd for causing my wrongful death.

Learn to fight fire with fire, people.

[manc]

good for them

we have to stick together for the future now as it is the only way we can defeat them all the time

[manc]

correct
they were very organised and it was sad that some churches did not get as vocal about this.

I hope this changes now

I’m not even a church goer but as they say we are all mormons on this

when are the police going to press hate charges?

[pray4liberty]

Hate charges? Are you kidding? It's the churches, not the gays, who are hateful and intolerant. /sarc

Trust me, this is California. Hate only goes one way to them. They'd press charges on the wrong people.