The following are some comments regarding the recent ruling issued by an openly gay judge which overturned California's ban on homosexual 'marriages'...
* USCCB President Cardinal Francis E. George: "The misuse of law to change the nature of marriage undermines the common good" and: "No court of civil law has the authority to reach into areas of human experience that nature itself has defined." [Source: CNA]
* Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz: "Marriage is more fundamental and essential to the well-being of society than perhaps any other institution. It is simply unimaginable that the court could now claim a conflict between marriage and the Constitution" [Source: CNA]
* Executive director of the California Catholic Conference: "That the judge should find marriage - civilization’s long-standing public policy - irrational and discriminatory does a great injustice to the institution itself and ultimately will further encourage the disintegration of mother-father families" [Source: CNA]
* Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles: "[The judge's] decision fails to deal with the basic, underlying issue - rather he focused solely upon individual testimony on how Prop 8 affected them personally. Wrong focus." And: "Judge Walker assumes that the institution of marriage is of human and civil origin, and therefore, that 'marriage' can mean anything any person wishes to ascribe to the institution. Wrong." [Source: CatholicCulture.org]
* General counsel for ProtectMarriage.com: "The judge’s invalidation of the votes of over seven million Californians violates binding legal precedent and short-circuits the democratic process. But this is not the end of our fight to uphold the will of the people for traditional marriage, as we now begin an appeal to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals." Confident the decision will be overturned, he also stated that the anticipated reversal "will also serve as a reminder that the role of the courts is to interpret and apply the law only as enacted by the people and their elected representatives, not to impose new social policies." [Source: EWTN]
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