WASHINGTON (EWTN News)—The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is calling on citizens to urge the U.S. Senate to reject a bill that would repeal the federal Defense of Marriage Act.
“Protecting marriage as the faithful and lifelong union of one man and one woman is critical to the common good,” said a recent action alert posted on the website for the bishops’ conference, USCCB.org.
The alert warned of the “national impact” that would be felt if the Defense of Marriage Act, which is “essential to protecting marriage,” were to be repealed.
The federal Defense of Marriage Act was passed in 1996 by a wide bipartisan margin and signed into law by President Bill Clinton. The act applies the definition of marriage as the union of one man and one woman to all federal policies.
A new bill, the Respect for Marriage Act, S.B. 598, now threatens to repeal DOMA.
The bill is authored by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and supported by President Barack Obama.
Opponents of the bill charge that it would remove marriage from the context of children and family. They also voice concern that it may seek to prohibit religious organizations from promoting true marriage as being the union of one man and one woman.
Legislative debate on S.B. 598 will begin in a Senate Judiciary Committee executive business meeting on Nov. 3.
The bishops’ statement warned that repealing the Defense of Marriage Act “would allow the administration to redefine marriage as the union of any two adults and invite the courts to impose this new definition in the states.”
The bishops are urging Catholics to contact their senators and ask them to oppose the bill.
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The Gay and Lesbian agenda has been with us for some time now. The Clinton’s kicked this off officially when Bill Clinton made it his first priority when becoming President of the United States. Since then, many states have endorsed gay and lesbian marriage, and the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” is recently a thing of the past in the Armed Forces of the United States. Had this issue been taken out to the American people as a federal referendum, it would have never made it as the “law of the land” on any level. But it is now late in the day, very late. It is ironic that the Nazis (as evil as they were) made homosexual conduct a crime, and had people sent to concentration camps for it. Obviously, that sort of punishment for perverted behaviour is as immoral as the behaviour itself.
Amen. Amen. Amen. The corrupt power elite of the corrupt corporate state fancies memorializing bestial depravity with the jack boot of the legislative pen by calling mortal sin godly and good… we know the sad ending to this fairy tale.
I am, frankly, astounded at the momentum that has been generated for the promotion of the homosexual agenda. Never in recorded history has something so contrary to normalcy been advanced with such widespread influence. One must conclude that some enormous force is at work promoting this, a force that must be opposed with every resource at our disposal. I fear that those who do not rightly understand the war that is being waged for the souls of men will acquiesce by virtue of inertia, and that, too late, they will find themselves members of a culture that identifies pleasure as the only happiness and love as a mere feeling. If we will not have recourse to to the sacraments and to prayer for our society as a preparation for the battle, that agenda will find itself victorious for a while, and a vast number of souls mat be lost.
And yet, those who call mortal sin godly and good, are allowed to receive the Sacraments rather than The Charitable Anathema, which exists for the sake of Christ, His Church, all who will come to believe through The Word of God as He Has revealed Himself to His Church in the trinitarian relationship of Sacred Tradition, Sacred Scripture, and The Teaching of The Magisterium, and that person who is no longer in communion with His Church.
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