Unite the Fight
“It is a sad day, as the leaders of the Catholic church in Maine relish, in delight, that they have succeeded in keeping the homosexual families of Maine outside of the walls of society where they must beg to maintain their very existence, much like the lepers and blind in the Bible were kept outside the city walls in days of old,” said Jack Dougherty of Eliot, Maine, a member of Catholics for Marriage Equality.
Patricia Brinkman said it best in her letter to the Portland Herald Press’ editor. “Newsflash to Bishop Malone: civil rights are not ‘values.’ And, as the multitude of successful lawsuits against the church on behalf of exploited children will attest, you long ago surrendered your legitimacy to dictate morality regarding sex.”
Amen.
