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The Church according to Governor O’Malley

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Image via Wikipedia Maryland’s Governor Martin O’Malley ’s recently announced his decision to support a bill to legalize gay “marriage” in the upcoming Maryland legislative session.  This decision has been a spectacle, to be sure, considering his professed Catholic faith .  But perhaps more shocking than his flip-flop on the issue is where this “evolution” of thinking has led him—to a place of complete contradiction with himself. When his decision drew  immediate criticism  from the Catholic Conference of Maryland and from Baltimore Archbishop Edwin O’Brien , who called the act one of “pure political expediency,” O’Malley responded in a letter, saying, among other things, that he has come to view the policy of treating same-sex relationships different from marriages as “unjust.”  In doing so he declared his sincere willingness to be seen as a sham from both sides of the gay marriage issue. For if it is true that it is “unjust” to leave marriage as it is and has existed for millennia,

Catholic Union supports gay movement against wishes of teachers

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Image via Wikipedia Faithful Catholic teachers are outraged after discovering that the Ontario English Catholic Teachers’ Association (OECTA) is funding Canada’s leading homosexualist organization with dues collected from them. According to OECTA’s website, the organization represents 45,000 teachers in publicly-funded English Catholic schools in the province.  All the teachers are compelled to pay dues to the organization, which vary according to teaching status, with many having nearly $1000 per year deducted from their paychecks. This gives the union huge financial clout. In its  2009-2010 Annual Report , the organization Equality for Gays and Lesbians Everywhere (EGALE), which famously lobbied successfully to legalize gay ‘marriage’ in Canada in 2005, lists OECTA as a partner (See  page 3 ).  EGALE’s support of same-sex ‘marriage’ often included ferocious attacks against the Catholic Church .  In a 2005 essay two prominent EGALE leaders, Kevin Bourassa and Joe Varnell, condemne