That Catholic leaders in America would oppose legalized gay marriage is no surprise, but it’s still important to note when official statements are released on this matter. Recently, the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic bishops gave his official backing to a Constitutional ban on gay marriages.

  The Journal Gazette reports:

The statement from Bishop Wilton Gregory was the first from the American church backing a specific amendment that would deny recognition of same-sex marriages. In a letter to fellow bishops, Gregory wrote that the Senate leadership had asked them to “formally register support” for the legislation.

Gregory asked bishops to urge their senators to get behind the amendment, and to encourage priests and parishioners to do the same. “This situation challenges Catholics – and all who seek the truth – to think deeply about the meaning of marriage, its purposes and its value to individuals, families and society,” Gregory wrote.

Formal support? Bishops are supposed to “get behind” the amendment? That’s interesting. I have no problem with Catholic doctrine disapproving of gay marriage, but the idea of Catholic bishops launching a campaign to impose those doctrines on America through the law or the American Constitution. Americans are justified in being concerned about this sort of thing.

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