More Catholic Social Justice Non Negotiables Trashed- Democrat Party and Obama to Fight to Overturn Defense of Marriage Act

Pro Ecclesia has the news at More Dem Platform News: Party to Officially Oppose Defense of Marriage Act

This is pretty big news. In essence the DOMA says ok California have gay marriage if you wish, but a state like Louisiana does not have to accept it or recognize it through the Full Faith and Credit clause.

In effect what Obama and the democrats wish to do is have a few states dictate to the rest of the states on this issue.

Needless to say this again a Catholic non negotiable that is being ignored by Obama Catholic supporters.

To see exactly how strongly the Church looks at this see CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING PROPOSALSTO GIVE LEGAL RECOGNITIONTO UNIONS BETWEEN HOMOSEXUAL PERSONS by the CONGREGATION FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH .

Here is just a part:

10. If it is true that all Catholics are obliged to oppose the legal recognition of homosexual unions, Catholic politicians are obliged to do so in a particular way, in keeping with their responsibility as politicians. Faced with legislative proposals in favour of homosexual unions, Catholic politicians are to take account of the following ethical indications.

When legislation in favour of the recognition of homosexual unions is proposed for the first time in a legislative assembly, the Catholic law-maker has a moral duty to express his opposition clearly and publicly and to vote against it. To vote in favour of a law so harmful to the common good is gravely immoral.

When legislation in favour of the recognition of homosexual unions is already in force, the Catholic politician must oppose it in the ways that are possible for him and make his opposition known; it is his duty to witness to the truth. If it is not possible to repeal such a law completely, the Catholic politician, recalling the indications contained in the Encyclical Letter Evangelium vitae, “could licitly support proposals aimed at limiting the harm done by such a law and at lessening its negative consequences at the level of general opinion and public morality”, on condition that his “absolute personal opposition” to such laws was clear and well known and that the danger of scandal was avoided.(18) This does not mean that a more restrictive law in this area could be considered just or even acceptable; rather, it is a question of the legitimate and dutiful attempt to obtain at least the partial repeal of an unjust law when its total abrogation is not possible at the moment.

The Democrat party platform and the Obama position fails on all counts. In fact the whole purpose of defeating DOMA is veto the will of numerous states on this issue. It is not only bad policy and indeed sinful policy but it is horrific bad government!!! Religious ad ethical issues aside this makes a mockery of Federalism

Also see

Pope reaffirms Church’s stance against homosexual marriage

Further

Pope Benedict when talking about the Catholic non negotiables to the European People's Party on 30 March 2006, Pope Benedict XVI said the following:

As far as the Catholic Church is concerned, the principal focus of her interventions in the public arena is the protection and promotion of the dignity of the person, and she is thereby consciously drawing particular attention to principles which are not negotiable.

Among these the following emerge clearly today:- protection of life in all its stages, from the first moment of conception until natural death;-

recognition and promotion of the natural structure of the family - as a union between a man and a woman based on marriage - and its defence from attempts to make it juridically equivalent to radically different forms of union which in reality harm it and contribute to its destabilization, obscuring its particular character and its irreplaceable social role;-

the protection of the right of parents to educate their children

Even Obama supporter and Catholic legal mind Prof Doug Kmiec seems to recognize a problem here in a article he had in the San Francisco Chronicle On Same-Sex Marriage Should California amend its Constitution?
Say 'no' to the Brave New World.

I am still waiting for Prof Kmiec to tell us how Catholics can vote for Obama who has pledged to make what he views as a mistake in California very possibly the land of the land by force in every State , Territory and Jurisdiction of the United States by repealing the Defense of Marriage Act . I suspect I will be kept waiting.