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Amongst members of the lgbtq community and our supporters, there have been whispering suspicions that one of the reasons why the National Organization for Marriage fights tooth-and-nail to keep its donor lists secret is because perhaps the Catholic Church leadership itself may be involved in with NOM’s efforts to hinder marriage equality at a level which would raise some serious questions regarding ethics and the legality of a religious organization interjecting itself into political battles.
And now there has been a complaint about it in regards to the Amendment One fight in North Carolina
According to the Charlotte News & Observer:
The Catholic Dioceses of North Carolina have contributed $100,000 to the effort to put a ban on gay marriage and civil unions in the state constitution. And now the Raleigh Diocese has sent a mailer titled “Why Traditional Marriage Matters” that is prompting a complaint to the N.C. State Board of Elections.
Carol Love, the former executive director of Common Cause North Carolina, a liberal-advocacy group, questions whether the group filed the proper campaign paperwork for the mailer and filed a complaint. A staffer at the elections board told her the no records reflected the political expenditure. “My complaint is that the Catholic Diocese of Raleigh does not seem to be adhering to all state, and possibly federal, election and lobby laws, including reporting requirements, and request that the Board of Elections investigate this matter,” Love wrote.
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Hat tip to LGBTQ Nation.
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Nice marriage announcement
Well, this dovetails nicely with the heirarchy’s war on nuns; the major complaint against the sisters is that they spend too much time on the sick and poor and not enough time or effort denouncing gay marriage(I kid you not!)
And, like everything else they do, they do it covertly(See Prime Minister Enda Kenny’s Cloyne Report Speech where he decries the arrogance and narcissism that motivates the heirarchy to interfere in political process.)
This is great!!!
More places need to be seeing this.
The catholic church crossed the line a LONG time ago.
They need to be brought back to working within the law, or lose their tax status!
Does anybody else see the irony of marrriage being defended by a bunch of guys who can’t get married???
Gee. A religious institution engaging in political activity without fear of consequences such as loss of tax exempt status. What a shock, huh?
Jerry Falwell campaigned from the pulpit for years before he went to glory. Nothing new here.
um…looking at those two’s pictures?
I would think that they doth protest too much.
Probably just jelous that they can’t get married…to each other.