U.S. Bishops: DOMA ruling ‘renewed our determination’ to defend true marriage
BALTIMORE, November 13, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) - The archbishop who leads the U.S. bishops' fight against same-sex “marriage” says the U.S. Supreme Court ’s June rulings on marriage has renewed the bishops' determination to defend true marriage. In an address at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) annual General Assembly on November 11 th , Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco lampooned the Supreme Court’s twin decisions of June 26 th that ruled unconstitutional the definition of true marriage in the Defense of Marriage Act , and found the Prop. 8 backers had no standing to defend the California law. According to Cordileone, who chairs the USCCB’s Subcommittee on the Promotion and Defense of Marriage, the rulings were "the most significant judicial decisions on marriage this country has ever experienced.” Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone speaks to the U.S. Bishops in Baltimore on Nov. 11, 2013. “By advancing redefinition,