New Yorkers and Their Bishops Speak Up on Marriage

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With a push on by supporters of same-sex “marriage” to legalize it in New York state, supporters of traditional marriage — including New York’s archbishop — are mounting their own campaigns to keep marriage as a union between one man and one woman.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has made clear that he will sign a bill legalizing same-sex “marriage,” but said recently he will not introduce one in the state Senate session that ends June 20 unless he’s comfortable that the votes are there to pass it.

On May 24, more than 350 people attended a morning rally outside the state Capitol in Albany, and hundreds more met with lawmakers in their offices later that day, according to organizers of the event.

Other recent efforts to fight any such measure included a rally in the Bronx that drew several thousand people, a pledge by the advocacy group National Organization for Marriage that it will spend $1.5million in advertising and campaign contributions to head off same-sex “marriage,” and a blog posting by Archbishop Timothy Dolan saying that the definition of marriage is “hard-wired into our human reason.”

The archbishop also wrote that he’s dismayed to hear that Catholics and others who oppose same-sex “marriage” are branded as “bigots and bullies who hate gays.”

Read more: ncregister.com/daily-news/new-yorkers-and-their-bishops-speak-up-on-marriage/#ixzz1NyQ4g7V9

 

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With a push on by supporters of same-sex “marriage” to legalize it in New York state, supporters of traditional marriage — including New York’s archbishop — are mounting their own campaigns to keep marriage as a union between one man and one woman.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has made clear that he will sign a bill legalizing same-sex “marriage,” but said recently he will not introduce one in the state Senate session that ends June 20 unless he’s comfortable that the votes are there to pass it.

On May 24, more than 350 people attended a morning rally outside the state Capitol in Albany, and hundreds more met with lawmakers in their offices later that day, according to organizers of the event.

Other recent efforts to fight any such measure included a rally in the Bronx that drew several thousand people, a pledge by the advocacy group National Organization for Marriage that it will spend $1.5million in advertising and campaign contributions to head off same-sex “marriage,” and a blog posting by Archbishop Timothy Dolan saying that the definition of marriage is “hard-wired into our human reason.”

The archbishop also wrote that he’s dismayed to hear that Catholics and others who oppose same-sex “marriage” are branded as “bigots and bullies who hate gays.”

Read more: ncregister.com/daily-news/new-yorkers-and-their-bishops-speak-up-on-marriage/#ixzz1NyQ4g7V9

This measure can be defeated by the powerful religious forces present in New York City and New York State. Remember that even though Andrew Cuomo is a liberal, he is also a politician (as well as a Catholic) who counts votes, and he will pay attention to the pressure exerted by the Catholic Church and the much-loved Archbishop Timothy Dolan, as well as the large Hispanic, African American, and Muslim population, many of whom are social conservatives. Even more pressure could be applied if Orthodox Jews and some of the Protestant churches got involved. There are also plenty of liberal religious forces, particularly in New York City, including Reform Jews, Unitarians, Ethical Humanists, and some Protestant churches. The religious and political battle lines are clearly drawn.

 

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Are Reform Jews liberal in the main?It staggers me that ANY Jew can be liberal considering the antisemetism and hatred for Israel espoused by the left.The left is no friend of the Jew.