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Gay Marriage’s Moment

6/21/2015

 
From NYT: Gay Marriage’s Moment by Frank Bruni
REMEMBER the AIDS crisis? If you lived in a big American city during its spread, you were witness to constant sorrow and countless examples of gay people treated as second-class citizens.

One was almost certainly this: the steadfast, heartbroken man being shut out of his beloved’s final weeks — not allowed in the hospital room, not welcomed at the grave — because some family members disapproved and no law trumped their bigotry.

This was a recurring story, an infuriating leitmotif, and many gays and our allies remarked and railed that it wouldn’t be happening if committed same-sex relationships got the legal recognition that heterosexual ones did.  continue reading
It is profoundly unfortunate that the Roman Catholic Church has lost so much of it’s moral credibility by fighting AGAINST love and justice.  Catholic Church, when will you provide moral leadership?  Catholic church - ORDAIN WOMEN, Marry Lesbian and Gay Couples.

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