Politically-Incorrect Democracy and Marriage

"It is a curious irony," notes Oakland, California Bishop Salvatore Cordileone, "that in this moment of history,  when people in a number of countries in the Middle East are agitating for change from dictatorship to democracy, here in our own country, the oldest democracy with a written constitution in the world, there is a movement of the ruling class toward taking more and more power into its own hands. The flashpoint for this movement? The hot-button issue of our day: marriage."

Writing in the Oakland diocesan paper, The Catholic Voice, Bishop Cordileone continues: "The comparison of  the Middle East and the United States, though, is just irony No. 1 among many others in the ongoing saga of the inter-relation between the marriage issue and democracy. The examples are legion, and it w
ould not be possible to list all of them here. I will, though, mention some of the more salient ones."

"In an explicit denial of his public duty, the then attorney general of the state of California (now governor) refused to defend the law of the state in the Perry v. Schwarzenegger case concerning the constitutionality of Proposition 8. His reason? He is personally opposed to it."

The rest of Bishop Cordileone's column is here. 

Comments

[LJ]

I would add one more irony.

The penchant for overriding and overruling democracy on this issue comes almost exclusively from those who are a part of, sympathetic to, or most often vote for the "Democrat"-ic party.

[Eric]

The good bishop's main point still stands, but to be fair to the homosexualists, three states have in fact established same-sex marriage through the proper democratic (i.e., legislative) procedures: CT, VT, and NH.

[Nancy D.]

The "freedom" to engage in sexual activity that demeans the inherent dignity of the human person is a form of slavery for Love is not possessive nor does it serve to manipulate.