Reply #319: Calgary's bishop orders letter read in EVERY church to "STAMP OUT" gay marriage

[Bluebear]

(Calgary, Alberta) The Roman Catholic Bishop of Calgary Sunday called on Catholics to stamp out same-sex marriage.

In a pastoral letter read in every church in the diocese Bishop Frederick Henry equated homosexuality with adultery, prostitution and pornography.

Henry said that the government has a duty to suppress public expressions of homosexuality.

"Marriage and the family are the foundations of society, through which children are brought into this world and nurtured as they grow to adulthood," the bishop said.

"Since homosexuality, adultery, prostitution and pornography undermine the foundations of the family, the basis of society, then the State must use its coercive power to proscribe or curtail them in the interests of the common good."

http://www.365gay.com/newscon05/01/011605calgBishop.htm