UK Daily Mail does exposè on Scott Walker family support for gay marriage

This is Wisconsin governor Scott Walker, pictured at the wedding reception of one of the first gay couples to marry in his state – who told Daily Mail Online today that they do not believe the presidential hopeful is against same-sex marriage.

He smiled with the newlyweds at their reception, which came weeks after a judge struck down an amendment to the state constitution defining marriage as between a man and a woman - a move the governor vowed to overturn.

On June 6, 2014, a federal judge ruled in favor of a lawsuit challenging a 2006 amendment to Wisconsin's constitution, after a public vote, which defined marriage as between one man and one woman.

U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb said Wisconsin's ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional, prompting a rush of same-sex couples getting wedding licenses.

Among the first to marry were Shelli Marquardt and Cathy Priem who married on June 9 at a civil courthouse ceremony in Waukesha County.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3154884/Scott-Walker-NOT-against-gay-marriage-say-sex-friends-GOP-hopeful-guest-joyous-wedding-reception-despite-pledge-amend-constitution-one-man-one-woman.html#ixzz3fW29dXeg
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Haven't had time to read through the whole think, but the article is extensive.

If I were on the Scott Walker campaign(wherein I only care about winning the election), I would have intentionally planted this story to improve Walker's "elect-ability."

HT JB

CreamCity: Exploring the "Benedict Option"

These are difficult days. We cannot ignore this. We cannot gloss over the maturation of toxic ideologies brought about by what Benedict XVI called the “dictatorship of relativism” in the West. And we read everyday about the relentless persecution of Christians in the Middle East and Africa which, according to Pope Francis, rival those of the earliest days of the Church. It is not simplistic, Henny Penny recklessness to warn about the dangers threatening society. Some of our nation’s most erudite legal scholars did just that in their strikingly somber dissents in last week’s Supreme Court ruling. John Roberts, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito each penned searing excoriations of the Court’s majority decision on gay “marriage” which, they believe, set us on a very dangerous path, politically and culturally. For their part, the United States bishops, including our own Archbishop Listecki, released a string of forceful statements sounding the alarm on the gravity of the ruling and the implications it has for the family and religious liberty. Sometimes you’ll hear people on our side say, “It’s been bad before, today’s no different.” Yes, it has been bad before. But today is different.

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Abp. Listecki booming remarks on Obergefell; US "a European wannabe,” the tyranny of the minority, blasts Kennedy, praises Scalia

For a long time now, I have felt that we have entered a post-Christian era in the history of western civilization. There is almost an embarrassment about being a Christian and a denial of the roots that Christianity has provided in the development of our society. In the European society, the Euro community refused to acknowledge the historical significance of Christianity in the development of European society. The pope made an impassioned plea for that recognition, but it fell on deaf ears. Now we have a European community that is clinging to its roots, as it is slowly being destroyed by its own hubris.

Here in the United States, we are apparently a European “wannabe.” We have been slowly disavowing ourselves of any connection to religion and separating ourselves from any symbols which may be offensive, though they have been in existence for decades.

Part of it can be attributed to the tyranny of the minority -- one person is offended by a statue or a picture reflecting some religious symbolism and off we go to an activist court for social reconstruction -- the sensitivity of the one is imposed on the many.

Oh! But we have separation of Church and state, they say (actually only by judicial edict). There was no separation of Church and state when the parochial schools were educating the masses because government lacked the capacity to do so. There was no separation when the religious hospitals were providing care in areas the government could not or would not. Nor when religious charities were providing for the homeless long before state welfare organizations were instituted.

I was hoping he'd come out swinging, thank you!

WI roundup on SCOTUS ruling

Wisconsin Catholic Conference:

Today the U.S. Supreme Court has determined that the U.S. constitution equally protects the right of same-sex couples to enter into a civil marriage in all 50 states. This ruling regrettably trumps both the express will emanating from the deliberations of voters and legislatures across the country, and millennia of understating across cultures as to what marriage is.

At the same time, the opinion of the Court also recognizes that “the First Amendment affirms that religious organizations and persons are given proper protection as they seek to teach the principles that are so fulfilling and so central to their lives and their faiths and to their own deep aspiration to continue the family structure they have long revered.”

For our part, our Catholic faith teaches, as it always has, that marriage is and can only be the union of one man and one woman. Man and woman complement each other; they then become united as one in marriage and together are unique in their ability to create new life based on sexual and reproductive differences. Our teaching in that regard will not change.

We will also continue to teach that every human person deserves respect and compassion. The experience of same-sex attraction is a reality that calls for attention, sensitivity, and pastoral care. Each of us is called to love and each of us deserves to be loved. Here too, we will continue to witness this value.

As the impact of the decision plays out over the coming weeks and months the Catholic Church will continue to preach the truth about marriage and human dignity. We will invite our fellow citizens to share in our values and commitment to them.

Abp Listecki(oddly worded):

Today is a sad day for the sacrament of marriage, when the United States Supreme Court redefines marriage to be something other than what God created.

Bp Ricken(well worded):

Roe v. Wade overlooked the dignity of every human life from conception. Obergefell v. Hodges misses the mark on the true nature of marriage.

— Bishop David Ricken (@BpDavidRicken) June 29, 2015

The Church will always hold up the beauty & value of marriage as it has been understood for millennia. A court decision does not make it so.

— Bishop David Ricken (@BpDavidRicken) June 29, 2015

Bp Morlino (really well worded):

The Church’s response to the ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States, recognizing “same-sex marriage”, is the same today as it would have been yesterday, namely that the definition of marriage is an objective truth of the natural order. Such truths can only be recognized and never changed, regardless of a court’s ruling or of a vote anywhere in the world.

As we have stated frequently, and repeat today, marriage is, and can only ever be, a unique relationship between one man and one woman, for one lifetime, with openness to children. This is not based on any private sectarian viewpoint, but on human ecology, which all are bound to respect, at all times, as inscribed in our human nature, from the beginning of creation. Because it behooves us to safeguard the sacred ecology of all nature, especially of our human nature, the Church will continue to do so.

I've not seen statements from the others yet.

Also: Scott Walker comes out strongly against the ruling