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Archbishop Dolan: Sorry For Offending You, Gays, But I Still Don't Want You To Have Equal Rights
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Jen Chung
Published Jul 8, 2011
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Blogging leader of the Catholic Church in New York City, Archbishop Timothy Dolan, posted a piece about the state's passage of marriage equality, "We have been bloodied, and bruised, and, yes, for the moment, we have been defeated. But, we’re used to that. So was the Founder of our Church."
Dolan, who in May blogged that the gay marriage fight was "Orwellian social engineering", claims that the Catholic Church doesn't want political clout and:
If we did hurt anybody in our defense of marriage, I apologize. We tried our best to insist from the start that our goal was pro-marriage, never anti-gay. But, I’m afraid some within the gay community were offended. As I replied recently to a reporter who asked if I had any message to the gay community, “Yes: I love you. Each morning I pray with and for you and your true happiness and well-being. I am honored that so many of you are at home within our Catholic family, where, like the rest of us, we try, with the help of God’s grace and mercy, to conform our lives to Jesus and His message. If I have offended any of you in my strenuous defense of marriage, I apologize, and assure you it was unintentional."
Get it—he just wants marriage for non-gays!
He also worries about Dan Savage's point that monogamy is over and ends on this note, "We acknowledge that, as St. Augustine taught, if something is wrong, even if everybody else is doing it, it’s still wrong; and, if something is right, even if nobody else is doing it anymore, it’s still right. Like St. Thomas More, we’re willing to take the heat and even lose our head from following a conscience properly formed by God’s revelation and the teaching of His Church, even if it is politically incorrect, and clashes with the King’s demands to re-define marriage."
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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