Gay Marriage In Maryland: Catholic Governors In Five States Sign Legislation

The Governor of Maryland will sign gay marriage equality legislation today. While the 2012 presidential race rekindles the embers of culture war, the rift between Catholic clergy and laypeople seems only to grow. In the recent contraception controversy it was revealed that 98% of Catholic women have used contraception at sometime in their lives, even as the Catholic Bishops maintain the position that contraception goes against Catholic teaching.

But contraception isn't the only place where the Catholic laity is at odds with the hierarchy. As Michael O'Loughlin pointed out in America Magazine, four Catholic governors have given marriage rights to gay citizens and Gov. Martin O'Malley makes five. As the political climate heats up, and with memories of the Bishop of Scranton threatening to refuse communion to the Catholic and, then Vice Presidential candidate, Joseph Biden, it will be interesting to see how, or if, these Catholic Governors remain in good standing within the Catholic Church.

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Comments

[Bob Wood]

11:30 AM on 04/17/2012

The Governors are right on this issue. Same-sex marriage will benefit millions and harm NO ONE. Anytime that situation arises...its the right thing to do. All opposition to same-sex marriage is emotional and based in myth and superstition. Being Catholic or non-Catholic has nothing to do with anything when exercising reason. Either something is reasonable...or it's not. Myth and superstition are just that...myth and superstition. Although many myths contain some element of reason...the myth is still inferior to the reason it contains. Reason dictates that if something benefits millions and harms...NO ONE...then that's what ought to be done...regardless of the myth and superstition it violates...(sigh)

[Bueno Hombre]

08:01 AM on 04/07/2012

I remember when the Catholic Church would not allow Catholics to marry non-Catholics.

[Alegrio Maduk]

06:28 PM on 03/30/2012

Epicurus of his time is considered as a knowledgeable person in material but not in spiritual. He consider matters has no beginning and no end, and many scientist now a days seeks the beginning and the end of matter(particles).
A man uses a material instrument to measure the position of particles in which accuracy was limited by the the uncertainty principle(physics), how can he be sure that his law is accurate and right when he live in a material world? Measurement and computation can be accurate only to a certaain degree, try any number divided by zero it will result to infinity.

[Alegrio Maduk]

06:04 PM on 03/30/2012

That is the loopholes of democratic form of government the interest of many, if Muslims will increase in numbers in a Christian dominated community, they will rule and the interest of the Christians will not be heard. For in the democratic country it is by vote that rules. Even the law of God will not be heard in a democratic country like what happened when marriage of men with men were signed into law, as gays increased in numbers they rule.

[letsmakeitright]

03:05 AM on 03/27/2012

Good for these governors to choose the humanity and dignity of their constituents over outdated, unfair, and unequal ideals.

[mbarth0725]

02:02 AM on 03/16/2012

SICK

[aforbes808]

05:18 PM on 03/12/2012

To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition? Is she not more self-sacrificing? Has she not greater powers of endurance? Has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman? - Gandhi

"Without her, man could not be." I will add a little reminder to Christians who pray to Jesus: Your savior was created by God and a woman. Men had nothing to do with it. Pax.

[juliet marilynne]

09:39 PM on 03/14/2012

and if god didn't have mary's permission, that makes god a rapist.

and since he ALLOWED his only son to be nailed to a cross, suffer and die, that also makes god a child abuser.

and since there was no apparent payment for the manger ever mentioned, but mary and joseph occupied the place anyway, that make mary and joseph the 1st welfare parents.

and since there's no real mention of god supporting mary OR jesus after jesus was born, that makes god one of the 1st deadbeat dads.

don't hate the messenger! it's all in that great book of yours.

[mbarth0725]

02:03 AM on 03/16/2012

What a Moron!

[aforbes808]

05:07 PM on 03/12/2012

The Catholic Church has no honor left to defend.

[escobar]

04:19 PM on 03/12/2012

Most Catholics don't go to Mass regularly either.
More still believe in the seperation of Church and State so
what other individuals choose to do may be against Church teachings they
see it as between that person and God.
There is theocratic ideal and reality. People who can remember when abortion
and contraception was illeagle know abortion was common. It was done
by criminals and a few trained people in secret. It empowered organized
criminals and sadistic perverts, not just compassionate medical people.
Few of the most vocal anti-abortion people give one damn about bombing the hell out
of innocent people half way around the globe for corporate oil and Israeli
interests any more than the did when the Vietnamease od Central Americans
were hung from the cross.

[hnsklojmmer311]

07:45 PM on 03/11/2012

If God is everywhere .... then He is at the Hell , too.

[mbarth0725]

02:03 AM on 03/16/2012

Another Moron

[hnsklojmmer311]

07:43 PM on 03/11/2012

Why this Bishop is looking "UP" when he is "sending messages to God" ?

Is not God everywhere ?

[Michael Dobson]

09:08 AM on 03/11/2012

"As the political climate heats up, and with memories of the Bishop of Scranton threatening to refuse communion to the Catholic and, then Vice Presidential candidate, Joseph Biden, it will be interesting to see how, or if, these Catholic Governors remain in good standing within the Catholic Church."

Ah. The bullying begins.

[lastofall]

03:51 AM on 03/11/2012

What the people do, the nation becomes. If therefore it is popular to support and legitimize sin as justified, then that is where their heart is, and that is their witness to themselves.

[TotalTranquility]

06:24 PM on 03/10/2012

Can someone please explain what the difference is between these two.

http://witshadows.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/cardinals.jpg

http://media.photobucket.com/image/recent/texasoasis/found/redsnuggieblanket.jpg

[lawmantoo]

08:07 PM on 03/10/2012

None

[Fenrir Lokison]

10:34 PM on 03/10/2012

The first group are people who seek to bring God's word, the love of Christ, the truth of the upcoming destruction of this world and how to be saved from Hell to all.

The second is a group of racists who would either banish or destroy everyone who is not of the white race.

[Michael Dobson]

09:09 AM on 03/11/2012

The first group is Christian.

The second group is Christian.

[TotalTranquility]

10:41 AM on 03/11/2012

Wrong

[Katherine Appello]

03:59 PM on 03/09/2012

These Bishops need to leave the faith and not call themselves Catholic or Christian leaders.