Pelosi to SF Archbishop: Marriage march is ‘venom masquerading as virtue’
Monday, June 16, 2014
U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has joined a high-profile lobbying effort to pressure San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone to skip the upcoming “March for Marriage” event, calling it “venom masquerading as virtue.”
U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)
San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone
The San Francisco Chroniclereports that
Pelosi — one of the country’s most powerful Catholic politicians — has
sent a letter urging Cordileone not to participate in the June 19 event
in Washington, being organized by the National Organization for Marriage.
“We
share our love of the Catholic faith and our city of San Francisco,”
Pelosi wrote to Cordileone, urging him to abandon an event in which some
of the participants show “disdain and hate towards LGBT persons.”
Cordileone,
as head of the 560,000-member Archdiocese of San Francisco, has become
one of the most vocal Catholic bishops against same-sex marriage.
He
chairs the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ subcommittee on the
promotion and defense of marriage and is one of the scheduled speakers
at Thursday’s march and rally, along with former Republican presidential
candidates Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum.
Cordileone was also a leader in the campaign for Proposition 8, the 2008 voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage in California.
The archbishop said in a letter his office made public Monday that it’s his duty to uphold traditional views of marriage even if such views are unpopular.
Last week, a number of top California and San Francisco officials — including Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom, State Sen. Mark Leno,
State Assembly member Tom Ammiano, and San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee —
signed on to an open letter with faith and community leaders calling on
Cordileone to cancel his participation in the event.
At the planned event on Thursday, marriage equality opponents
plan to “march” from the U.S Capitol to the Supreme Court in an event
the NOM hopes will attract thousands, and ignite new efforts to reverse
shifting public acceptance of same-sex marriage, a loss at the ballot
box in four states in November 2012, and a year-long losing streak in
the federal courts.
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Such
a ruling would strengthen the position of the 31 states that currently
ban same-sex marriage and Brown hopes that would be a catalyst for other
states to reimpose bans.
NOM’s
march comes just days before the one year anniversary of the Supreme
Court decisions that cleared the way for same-sex marriage to resume in
California, and struck down a section of the Defense of Marriage Act.
The most recent Gallup poll shows public support for same-sex marriage at 55 percent, an all-time high.
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