A liberal pro-gay marriage religious coalition honored two Massachusetts Catholic legislators last week.They were state Rep. Marie P. St. Fleur and state Sen. Marian Walsh. Walsh used to be held up in pro-life circles as a model Catholic politician. Not anymore.
At the event, state Rep. Marie P. St. Fleur and state Sen. Marian Walsh told the audience their Catholic faith inspired them to support same-sex marriage, despite clear pronouncements against it from Pope John Paul II and Boston Archbishop Sean P. O’Malley.
Their faith may tell them to support same-sex marriage, but it wasn’t the Catholic faith. Unless of course, they believed the bilge told them by fed to them by four Boston priests at a legislative hearing in which they argued that gay marriage is a human right. (Two of the four priests were Fr. James Keenan, a Jesuit who teaches at Boston College, and Fr. Walter Cuenin, a priest of the Boston archdiocese.)
Dom,
Don’t be so hard on CCD. Yeah, it stank. No, it didn’t bring me closer to Jesus either. But St. Fleur and Walsh (my rep, by the way) can follow the polls as well as anyone. The Kennedy brothers, Geoghan, Shanley, every priest and religious who abandoned their vocation in the 1960’s and 1970’s—- every one of them were formed under the supposedly idyllic pre-Vatican II system. That sure didn’t seem to work either, huh? We live in a corrupt culture that’s replaying out the Fall. Should we be surprised when the seemingly righteous betray the Faith?