Posted on 07/05/2015 7:50:03 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
WASHINGTON — The District’s top Catholic leader has weighed in on the Supreme Court’s decision to legalize same-sex marriage.
“The law of the land is the law of the land,” says Archbishop of Washington Cardinal Donald Wuerl. “We certainly follow what the law says. That doesn’t mean we change the word of God. That doesn’t mean we change the scriptures, or the church’s millennia-long tradition of what marriage is.”
Everyone is welcome to the faith, Wuerl says: “Nobody is turned away because of their sexual identity, because of their race because of their ethnic background. And are we not all struggling to live the gospel?”
The Catholic church teaching will not change, but Cardinal Wuerl says Pope Francis has been more inclusive.
“He keeps saying, ‘Go out. Go out and meet people where they are. And in that encounter, walk with them, accompany them,'” Wuerl continues. “I think that’s what the church is saying. We all need to walk together as we try to make our way closer and closer to God.”
our immigration laws are also 'law of the land'... and those are being ignored just as much as this bs will
in Florida, marriage being defined as between one man and one woman was a CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT ... yet it was tossed by a single pro-homo federal judge (?!)
you'll excuse if i stand opposed to the bs from the left.
So then, why was Henry VIII excommunicated? Wasn’t his divorce from Queen Catherine and his assumption of leadership of the Church in England the law of the land?
They didn’t start remarrying civilly divorced people even though the state made that the law of the land for centuries. Hard to imagine they wouldn’t first get around to that before they started marrying same sex couples.
Freegards
EXACTLY!
Note the reference to Natural Law in the first sentence of our Declaration of Independence.
It is crystal clear that the Founding Fathers used the Natural Law definition of 'natural born Citizen' when they wrote Article II. By invoking "The Laws of Nature and Nature's God" the 56 signers of the Declaration incorporated a legal standard of freedom into the forms of government that would follow.
President John Quincy Adams, writing in 1839, looked back at the founding period and recognized the true meaning of the Declaration's reliance on the "Laws of Nature and of Nature's God." He observed that the American people's "charter was the Declaration of Independence. Their rights, the natural rights of mankind. Their government, such as should be instituted by the people, under the solemn mutual pledges of perpetual union, founded on the self-evident truth's proclaimed in the Declaration."
The Laws of Nature and of Nature's God: The True Foundation of American Law
The Constitution, Vattel, and “Natural Born Citizen”: What Our Framers Knew
If he was a Bishop in nazi Germany would he have obeyed “the law of the land”?
Legal is not righteousness.
It may be but it is not God’s law. It is evil.
Great message, but I worry if he knows their goal isn’t to get closer to God, it is to destroy him in society.
They want to get rid of their guilt, they don’t even know why they have this anti-Christian aversion in a lot of cases, but it is obvious.
I hope they would become ex-priests pretty quickly. If one gets away with it then it is not a religious principle anymore.
Too many in Roman Catholic leadership positions is MORE concerned with NOT offending their BIG democrat donors rather than taking a stand on moral issues.
I’ll never leave the Church and will fight these people to my dying breathe.
Cardinal: Homosexual priest that never got caught and went to prison because the Catholic church hides their pedophiles.
We do not follow the law of the land when it conflicts with the Law of God. That simple. I’m not catholic but thats the rules for any church that claims to be Christian.
You know what brings people closer to God? Repentance. Do you know what has never brought people closer to God? Inclusiveness.
The law of the land is the law of the land is exa c tly why deviant marriage ISN’T the law of the land.
That would cause a schism. You can’t change the words of Christ...
Is he trying to tell us that the Catholic church is going to start marrying homos?
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NO, it does not. In the same article he says. “That doesn’t mean we change the word of God. That doesn’t mean we change the scriptures, or the church’s millennia-long tradition of what marriage is.” The Church will NEVER change its teaching.
No, he didn’t.
How is he *obeying* this law?
Yes, it really is. Here’s a video that fully demonstrates just how special it is.
What gets me is those who selectivly extoll “the law of the land” are often quite supportive of states ignoring federal immigration and marijuana laws, also “the law of the land”.
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