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By Elizabeth Tenety ~ from the Washington Post’s On Faith<\/strong><\/h6>\n

New York\u2019s state\u2019s Catholic bishops continue to blast the state\u2019s passage of\u00a0homosexual marriage this week, with one bishop calling on Catholic schools and other institutions to shun lawmakers in protest of the vote.<\/p>\n

In an op-ed Sunday in the New York Daily News,<\/em> Nicholas DiMarzio, bishop of Brooklyn, called on members of his diocese to \u201cnot to bestow or accept honors, nor to extend a platform of any kind to any state elected official, in all our parishes and churches for the foreseeable future,\u201d a statement that may signal a new era in church-state relations in the Empire State.<\/p>\n

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Catholic bishops have previously fought high-profile battles with public officials who endorse policy positions contrary to official church teaching. The previous battleground was mostly limited to debates over the right to life, which is seen within Catholicism as a primary, inviolable value. (Catholics, the church teaches, may not vote for pro-choice politicians except for \u2018grave reasons.\u2019) But it is new that church leaders such as DiMarzio would include legislation on gay rights as sufficient cause to ostracize politicians.<\/p>\n

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