WASHINGTON
Seattle PI
By JOEL CONNELLY, SEATTLEPI.COM STAFF
Published 05:10 p.m., Sunday, May 13, 2012
Archbishop J. Peter Sartain sent me two letters in April: One was the annual Catholic Appeal asking money for good works, the other an appeal for discrimination, namely repeal of the just-granted legal right for my gay and lesbian friends to marry.
Three words of Nancy Reagan quickly flashed to mind: Just say no!!
Don’t give one cent to a man in the purple hat. Don’t support a diocese that makes common cause with the National Organization for Marriage that wants to “sideswipe Obama” and “drive a wedge between gays and blacks.”
It’s an honest, widely shared emotion. Many American Catholics are appalled, hurt and disheartened by the actions of their bishops, and see in those actions a disconnect with the teachings of Christ and message of the Gospel, as well as our belief in a community of the faithful.
Our “shepherds” have set out to force American nuns to toe the Vatican line, with Archbishop Sartain assigned a lead role. They’ve just begun an “official inquiry” into the Girl Scouts — yes, the Girl Scouts — for associating with such groups as Doctors Without Borders, Oxfam and the Sierra Club.
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