Robert P. George, a Princeton University professor of jurisprudence and a Roman Catholic...is this country’s most influential conservative Christian thinker.... George had drafted a 4,700-word manifesto that promised resistance to the point of civil disobedience against...same-sex marriage.
via www.nytimes.com
They should concentrate their authority on “the moral social” issues like abortion, embryonic stem-cell research and same-sex marriage, where, he argued, the natural law and Gospel principles were clear. To be sure, he said, he had no objections to bishops' “making utter nuisances of themselves” about poverty and injustice, like the Old Testament prophets, as long as they did not advocate specific remedies. They should stop lobbying for detailed economic policies like progressive tax rates, higher minimum wage and, presumably, the expansion of health care — “matters of public policy upon which Gospel principles by themselves do not resolve differences of opinion among reasonable and well-informed people of good will,” as George put it.
The quotations come off and the bias of the author lights up!
Posted by: Renaissance | December 21, 2009 at 04:18 AM
Well then, does that mean all those Catholic priests will have to remain single?
Just wondering...
Posted by: JimParkerBill | December 21, 2009 at 08:20 AM