So much for the ultra right wing Christo-Fascist lie about how LGBT/T folks can have civil unions just so long as they don’t have equal rights or call it marriage…
From The Providence Journal: http://www.projo.com/news/politics/content/diocese_civil_unions_04-30-11_NINQUEG_v9.18665d9.html
By Katherine Gregg
Journal State House Bureau
April 30, 2011
PROVIDENCE — After playing a major role in the defeat of same-sex marriage, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence is now urging state lawmakers to reject the compromise that House Speaker Gordon D. Fox is backing: civil unions.
In an unsigned editorial in this week’s Rhode Island Catholic, the Diocese says:
“We hope that those members of the Rhode Island General Assembly who have consistently supported traditional marriage will stay steadfast in their opposition to the legal recognition of same-sex relationships as either marriage or civil unions.
“Government sanctioned civil unions cannot be supported by those who truly understand the unique nature and status afforded a man and a woman in marriage. We call upon the members of the Rhode Island House and Senate to cast aside such compromises and rather work to strengthen marriage in our state by passing a Defense of Marriage Bill that clearly defines marriage as between one man and one woman.
“Only then will the attempts by radical activists to redefine marriage and undermine family life in Rhode Island finally be stopped. Civil Unions are not the answer,” the editorial says.
And “far from settling the issue, the passage of civil union legislation only advances the drive to same-sex marriage by framing the perception of same-sex relationships as ‘separate but equal.’ Such a course of events have taken place in recent years in Maine, Vermont, Connecticut and New Hampshire with civil unions ultimately becoming the stepping stone to the legal recognition of same-sex relationships as marriage,” the editorial says.
Continue reading at: http://www.projo.com/news/politics/content/diocese_civil_unions_04-30-11_NINQUEG_v9.18665d9.html
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