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Another high profile Prop 8 backer arrested
Another campaigner for the outlawing of same-sex marriage in California has been charged by police for committing a crime
A second high profile campaigner for the Proposition 8 ballot initiative that banned same-sex marriage in the US state of California has been arrested and charged with a crime this month.
Now it has emerged that the Archbishop of San Francisco, Salvatore Cordileone, spent Saturday night in a San Diego police drunk tank after being stopped by police on suspicion of driving while impared.
Cordileone was such an adamant campaigner against the right of same-sex attracted Californians to marry he was given the nickname the ‘Father of Prop 8,’ and he donated at least $6,000 of his own money to the campaign to outlaw same-sex marriage in the state.
‘While visiting in San Diego this past weekend, I had dinner at the home of some friends along with a priest friend visiting from outside the country and my mother, who lives near San Diego State University,’ Cordileone said in a statement.
‘While driving my mother home, I passed through a DUI checkpoint the police had set up near the SDSU campus before I reached her home, and was found to be over the California legal blood alcohol level.’
‘I apologize for my error in judgment and feel shame for the disgrace I have brought upon the Church and myself. I will repay my debt to society and I ask forgiveness from my family and my friends and co-workers at the Diocese of Oakland and the Archdiocese of San Francisco.’
Cordileone had only just been chosen by Pope Benedict XVI for the role and will be officially installed as Archbishop of San Francisco five days before he is due to appear in court to be tried for the drunk driving charge.
The bishop’s mother Mary Cordileone said the role of Archbishop of San Francisco would be challenging for her son because of ‘the gays.’
‘It’s going to be a tough job because, you know, he’s always preached against same-sex marriages and them, the gays, are very active up there.’
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I am a graduate of a Catholic university in the United States. I never experienced any anti-gay discrimination from the professors of the courses I took. But the Catholic Church has failed completely to share the gospel of Christ with respect to gays and lesbians. As a result, there has been a mass exodus of homosexual believers (i.e., Catholic Christians) from the Church over the past twenty years.
This began when the Church reaffirmed a papal ruling during the height of the AIDS crisis, claiming that the use of condoms was a mortal sin. Members of ACT UP chained themselves to pews at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York in protest.
The papal ruling was not just insane; it was an abomination. God does not kill those who were specifically created to bring Christ's perfect love to others. This is not who God is and this is not what God does.
Anyone entrusted to share the Gospel must know this or they should be permanently expelled from the priesthood (or ministry). The people of God should stand up in church when this Cardinal takes to the pulpit and demand in a loud voice that he step down. If he does not listen, then they should turn their backs on him.
I have seen this happen in other denominations I have attended.
Marriage equality is absolutely consistent with the Gospel of Christ. Jesus himself would have been in attendance in the home of any same sex couple who took their vows in his name and blessed their union.