Opponents of gay marriage accuse protesters of trying to intimidate the courts by voicing their opinions as a group. But since when is dissent “mob rule”?
“The central problem interfaith work seeks to solve is this: how are all of us, with our deep differences, to share a nation and a world together? In my view, that is primarily a question of civic space, not political ideology.”
The loss on Prop 8 is like a death for gay and lesbian people, who have witnessed their civil rights murdered at the polls—the grieving is just beginning.
Though the majority of Catholics reside in Latin America and Africa, the majority of Cardinals (the Pope pool) are European. Still, many are looking ahead to the first Pope of color.