{"id":87,"date":"2010-10-11T09:16:46","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T09:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/religionandpubliclife\/2010\/10\/campaigning-against-same-sex-marriage.html"},"modified":"2010-10-11T09:16:46","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T09:16:46","slug":"campaigning-against-same-sex-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/religionandpubliclife\/2010\/10\/campaigning-against-same-sex-marriage.html","title":{"rendered":"Campaigning against same-sex marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"

The, ah, irrepressible GOP candidate for governor of New York, Carl
\nPaladino, managed to stick his foot in it by assuming the anti-gay
\nposture in a speech to Orthodox Jewish leaders in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
\n(part of the GOP base in the Empire State). As the NYT reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n

\n“I just think my children and your children would be much better off and
\nmuch more successful getting married and raising a family, and I don’t
\nwant them brainwashed into thinking that homosexuality is an equally
\nvalid and successful option — it isn’t,” he said, reading from a
\nprepared address, according to a video of the event<\/a>.\t\t<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\n

\nAnd then, to applause at Congregation Shaarei Chaim, he said: “I didn’t
\nmarch in the gay parade this year — the gay pride parade this year. My
\nopponent did, and that’s not the example we should be showing our
\nchildren.” Newsday.com reported<\/a>
\nthat Mr. Paladino’s prepared text had included the sentence: “There is
\nnothing to be proud of in being a dysfunctional homosexual.” But Mr.
\nPaladino omitted the sentence in his speech. \n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Paladian spokesman, Michael Caputo, explained that the Buffalo real estate mogul was “simply
\nexpressing the views that he holds in his heart as a Catholic.”
\nRight…in prepared remarks contrasting himself to the Catholic
\nDemocratic candidate delivered in a campaign appearance with the
\nelection less than a month away. Thanks for sharing your faith, Carl. <\/p>\n

And thanks too, to the Archbishop of Minneapolis, John C. Nienstedt, for sending out<\/a>
\n400,000 DVDs to Minnesota Catholics denouncing same-sex marriage as the
\ngreatest threat to marriage in their state and urging support for a
\nconstitutional amendment to ban it a few weeks before a gubernatorial
\nelection in which one of the three candidates opposes it. Not politics, he said<\/a>, but just a “teaching tool.” Fr. Michael Tegeder of St. Edward’s Church was not convinced, and wrote<\/a> to the Minneapolis Star Tribune<\/i>
\nto say so. (“Most scandalous is that Archbishop Nienstedt has
\ncompromised his office with the use of anonymous money to fund this
\neffort.”) Good luck to him, as the archdiocese announces<\/a> its reorganization<\/a> of parish life next weekend.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile out here in Mormon country (I’m in Logan to give a couple of
\nlectures at Utah State), there’s a good deal of talk about the recent
\nspeech of Elder Boyd K. Packer declaring the LDS Church’s position on
\ngender roles to be “revelation”–which contention was then suppressed<\/a> in the official transcript. Coming on the heels of Elder Marlin Jensen’s apology<\/a>
\nfor the Church’s handling of its anti-Proposition 8 campaign, there’s
\nevidently some considerable roiling of the waters going on here too.<\/p>\n

In his new book The Religious Test<\/i><\/a>,
\nDamon Linker thoughtfully offers some rules of the road for sorting out
\nour differences over religion in public life. But in a public square
\nthat these days resembles a carnival midway more than a New Republic<\/i>
\neditorial meeting, it’s the hooting and hollering, I’m afraid, that
\nkeeps<\/a> politicians and spiritual leaders from getting completely out of
\ncontrol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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