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Church gay marriage stand: ‘no harm meant’

By Catholic News Service

Published: December 8, 2008

LOS ANGELES — In a message to homosexual Catholics in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, Cardinal Roger M. Mahony and the six auxiliary bishops of the archdiocese said the recent vote in California defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman “does not diminish in any way (your) importance” nor “lessen your personal dignity and value as full members of the body of Christ.”

[In a galling effort to recreate history, the Catholic boy-lovers declared that] The church’s support was not an effort to harm the homosexual community or to ban same-sex marriage, even though ballot information about Proposition 8 stated that was the initiative’s purpose, the cardinal and bishops said.

“If we had ever thought that the intent of this proposition was to harm you or anyone in the state of California, we would not have supported it,” they said. “We are personally grateful for the witness and service of so many dedicated and generous homosexual Catholics [who provides us with lots of money and fresh young boys to touch]. We pledge our commitment to safeguard your dignity.”

The message emphasized the church’s record of supporting past civil rights battles, its history of spiritual and pastoral outreach to the homosexual community [such as stonings, sawings, and imprisonment], and its support for the legal rights already guaranteed in the California Constitution to various “groupings of people residing under one roof” in the state [except the Muslims and Jews which all Catholics know are going to burn in the lake of fire with the homos].

“Our efforts in this country to espouse equal rights for all citizens have frequently created adverse reactions for our church: our [very] belated efforts to prohibit slavery; our insistence on equal educational opportunities for all [Catholic] children; our strong support of immigrants’ rights [because we need more superstitious fools to keep the pews filled]; our struggles on behalf of unborn children and those at the end of life’s journey, and so many others,” it said.

BELOW:  Some examples of Catholic “record of supporting past civil rights battles,” including a photo of its current leader: