Catholic Maryland governor rejects bishop’s exhortation not to support gay ‘marriage’
Image via Wikipedia BALTIMORE, MD , August 17, 2011 – Edwin O’Brien , the archbishop of Baltimore , isn’t happy with the Catholic governor of Maryland ’s decision to sponsor homosexual “marriage” legislation, but the governor has said that has no intention of backing down. A July letter from Archbishop Edwin O’Brien to Governor Martin O’Malley , a Democrat, and an August 4 written response by the governor, were both posted on the governor’s blog last Tuesday. In his original letter Archbishop O’Brien challenged Governor O’Malley to act in line with his faith and not to support homosexual “marriage,” suggesting that the governor was acting out of “mere political expediency.” “Preserving the central role of the natural family unit has always been — and should continue to be — the reason why our government recognizes marriage as existing between one man and one woman,” he said. O’Brien suggested that the July passage of similar legislation in New York has intensified pressure on