Posted on 01/25/2021 11:02:29 AM PST by ebb tide
WASHINGTON — Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Committee for Religious Liberty; Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City, chairman of the Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development; Bishop Michael C. Barber, S.J., of Oakland, chairman of the Committee on Catholic Education; Bishop Shelton J. Fabre of Houma-Thibodaux, chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee Against Racism; and Bishop David A. Konderla of Tulsa, chairman of the Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defense of Marriage, issued a statement responding to President Biden’s executive order of January 20 that addressed last year’s U.S. Supreme Court decision, Bostock v. Clayton County, Ga.
Their joint statement follows:
“Every person has a right to gainful employment, education, and basic human services free of unjust discrimination. That right should be protected. The Supreme Court’s Bostock decision, however, needlessly ignored the integrity of God’s creation of the two complementary sexes, male and female, with reasoning that treated them as devoid of meaning.
“Wednesday’s executive order on ‘sex’ discrimination exceeds the Court’s decision. It threatens to infringe the rights of people who recognize the truth of sexual difference or who uphold the institution of lifelong marriage between one man and one woman. This may manifest in mandates that, for example, erode health care conscience rights or needed and time-honored sex-specific spaces and activities. In addition, the Court had taken care to note that Bostock did not address its clear implications for religious freedom. Yesterday’s executive order exercises no such caution.
“We are very grateful for the new administration’s actions on immigration and the climate, as well as for another executive order, ‘On Advancing Racial Equity,’ which is nobly aimed at identifying and remedying racism and its impact on society and in government. It is unfortunate that the goal of racial equality is partially conflated with the imposition of new attitudes and false theories on human sexuality which can produce social harms.
“We share the goal of ending unjust discrimination and supporting the dignity of every human, and we therefore regret the misguided approach of Wednesday’s order addressing Bostock.”
Ping
Perhaps if the Catholic Church were more interested in what the Democrats stood for, rather than some tweets that hurt their feelings, they wouldn’t have their backs to the wall at this point.
I’m not grateful! ALL of biden’s executive orders are EVIL!!!!
That goes DOUBLE for cancelling the 1776 commission and reversing the lowering of prices for insulin and Epi Pens!!!!
Joe Biden is not Catholic!!! He is,as someone wiser than I stated recently, a Anti-Catholic Catholic.
His promotion of abortion under any circumstances until birth, both here and abroad. will do more to damage Catholic values than even his mentor Obama did.
He is giving a presidential cloak of approval over the wholesale killing of babies, and in so doing, seriously undermines the Catholic Church.
Why are you "grateful" for actions which destroy national sovereignty and impose slave wages on legal immigrants and minorities?
Why are you so enamored with the notion that mankind is capable of changing the climate?
What good do believe can come from the policies pretending to impact the climate?
These bishops and such are getting tens of millions of dollars to “resettle” the illegals..THAT’s WHY THEY DON’T WANT TO PISS OFF THE DEMS.....
Most bishops are cowards..They are getting tens of millions of dollars to “resettle”illegals....Don’t want to piss off the dems who hand them the millions,now do they????
A Communist Purge Is Underway & Nothing Is Being Done About It!
Reminder to the bishops: If you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.
Ain’t that a kick in the head.
Simply put, since the states have never amended the Constitution to expressly protect either politically correct LGBT “rights,” or the so-called “right” to murder unborn children like they did with the rights that the early states famously protected in the Bill of Rights.
In other words, these relatively recent phony federal “rights” are hoaxes targeted at low-information voters to keep criminal-minded Democrats and RINOs in power imo.
In fact, regarding political LGBT "rights," the Supreme Court established the precedent of recognizing only biological female and male sexes at birth. This happened when the Court decided against Virginia Minor's attorney-husband's claim that the 14th Amendment’s equal protections clause automatically (my word) gave women as much a right to vote as voter-qualified men have when it decided Minor v. Happersett, the 19th Amendment based on that premise.
“3. The right of suffrage was not necessarily one of the privileges or immunities of citizenship before the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment, and that amendment does not add to these privileges and immunities. It simply furnishes additional guaranty for the protection of such as the citizen already had [emphasis added].” —Minor v. Happersett, 1874.
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation [emphasis added]."
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
Giving Joe a mass on inauguration day was a scandal.. I’m sure good old Joe took Holy Communion despite his support of abortion. The Bishops are spineless hypocrites. Too bad the old bell book and candle ritual of excommunication isn’t around anymore... it would make good TV
You need to ditch the fake pope and the false belief in climate change which is used to wield unconstitutional and immoral power over our fellow man creating misery for millions.
And flooding our country with illegals including supporting them monetarily to break our federal laws, invade our country, steal our jobs and increase human and drug trafficking. What kind of church are you?
joe biden is a Roman Catholic by Baptism and by reception of the other Sacraments of his church!! But he obviously is not a very good Catholic at all!!
We have Orthodox Christians like him, such as those who publish on these websites:
Unfortunately, the Pope and some Roman Catholic bishops fawn all over biden, when they should be urging hm to repentance. We have Orthodox Bishops like that, unfortunately, especially those who are closet Uniates. And all of us, both Orthodox and Catholic. no matter how conservative, may stray into the kinds of heresies and heteropraxies represented by the above websites, etc.
Exactly.
No, you will soon see the false shepherds purged from the Church. The Holy Spirit will flush them out, starting with the imPopester Bergoglio.
That alligator is going to eat you anyway, so you might want to man up and give it a fight.
Martyr Bishops of China, pray for us. Sts. Francis-Regis Clet and Jean-Gabriel Perboyre, Martyrs of Wuhan, pray for us.
All you saints and martyrs pray for our Bishops.
Why do priests and bishops only make pro-life stmts if they are couched in sheepish, craven acclamations about poverty, AGW, race, immigration, all separate issues?
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