"Will You Stand?" - March for Marriage June 19th, 2014

 San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone will be marching and will present a keynote address despite the fact that public heretic Nancy Pelosi thinks the march is "venom masquerading as virtue."

That this woman, promoter of abortion and homosexual unions masquerading as "marriage", should dare to utter the word "venom", is almost laughable.

"We share our love of the Catholic faith and our city of San Francisco," Pelosi wrote to Cordileone.  Really Nancy?  You are nothing but a cultural Catholic who does not know the most basic teachings of the Church.

You spew your nonsense and lead others to sin.  You cannot make your own rules when it comes to the faith.  If you don't like the doctrine of the Catholic Church, go start your own.

Ms Pelosi, you are a public sinner and should be publicly excommunicated.

Nancy Pelosi ("ardent Catholic") schools Archbishop Cordileone and Wild Bill schools liberals about Christians...

a twofer for Monday.

You absolutely can not make this stuff up.

I have been watching world events from a Catholic perspective and here's what I see:  The Catholic Church has been infiltrated with an anti-Catholic Marxist leaning bunch of scalawags.   World and Church events are running on train tracks side by side.

Lest you think you're immune if you're not Catholic, you had better take a hard look at whatever church you attend.  Does your church promote "social justice", prosperity gospel, or celebrate homosexuality? 


From SFGate:

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi took the lead this week in a high-profile lobbying effort to pressure San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone not to attend the controversial March for Marriage event, which she characterized as "venom masquerading as virtue."

Pelosi, who is one of the country's most powerful Catholic politicians, made a passionate appeal to the archbishop in a letter obtained by The Chronicle not to participate in the National Organization for Marriage's June 19 march on the Supreme Court in Washington.

Cordileone, who is one of the featured speakers at the event, was a leader in the campaign for Proposition 8, the 2008 California anti-gay-marriage initiative.

"We share our love of the Catholic faith and our city of San Francisco," Pelosi wrote to Cordileone, who, as head of the 560,000-member Archdiocese of San Francisco, has become the Catholic bishops' point man against gay marriage. She urged him to abandon an event in which some of the participants show "disdain and hate towards LGBT persons."

Invoking the words of Pope Francis with regard to gays and lesbians, she wrote, "If someone is gay and is searching for the Lord and has good will, then who am I to judge him?"  read it all

The article calls Ms Pelosi "one of the country's most powerful Catholic politicians" which is ludicrous.  There is a big difference between a lapsed Catholic and a Catholic in good standing.  Pelosi publicly advocates for murder abortion of innocent defenseless children and promotes the concept of homosexual unions being called "marriage."  Neither is Catholic teaching.  Not one tiny little bit! 

Notice how Ms Pelosi suggests that if you think marriage is only between a man and a woman, you are showing "disdain and hate towards LGBT persons."  Yet she invokes the out-of-context words of Pope Francis to say "who are we to judge."

Back at ya, Nancy. 

I can well imagine Archbishop Cordileone, a very smart man of considerable charm and grace, "laughing his you know what" off.  

Archbishop Cordileone states case against gay marriage...

I agree with Pat Archbold at Creative Minority Report.

Anybody who wishes to enter into a debate about gay marriage with friends, family, co-workers, neighbors, or anyone else should read this interview and memorize each and every answer by the Archbishop.

This, folks, is how it is done. Do not accept their premises at all.

This is not a debate about tolerance or a live and let live mentality. If it was, some form of civil union or benefit structure would have been sufficient. This is about criminalizing the opposing views and driving Christianity further into the cubby hole.

Read this. Memorize it. Regurgitate.

Thanks, Pat

Interview in USA Today with Archbishop Cordileone on gay marriage.

Q: What is the greatest threat posed by allowing gays and lesbians to marry? 

A:The better question is: What is the great good in protecting the public understanding that to make a marriage you need a husband and a wife? 

I can illustrate my point with a personal example. When I was Bishop of Oakland, I lived at a residence at the Cathedral, overlooking Lake Merritt. It's very beautiful. But across the lake, as the streets go from 1st Avenue to the city limits at 100th Avenue, those 100 blocks consist entirely of inner city neighborhoods plagued by fatherlessness and all the suffering it produces: youth violence, poverty, drugs, crime, gangs, school dropouts, and incredibly high murder rates. Walk those blocks and you can see with your own eyes: A society that is careless about getting fathers and mothers together to raise their children in one loving family is causing enormous heartache. 

To legalize marriage between two people of the same sex would enshrine in the law the principle that mothers and fathers are interchangeable or irrelevant, and that marriage is essentially an institution about adults, not children; marriage would mean nothing more than giving adults recognition and benefits in their most significant relationship. 

How can we do this to our children?  read the rest