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Sent:
Monday, November 1, 2004 |
Subject:
A2 MAYORAL CANDIDATE STATEMENT AND MORE SUPPORT! |
VERY
RECENT NEWS:
Republican Ann Arbor Mayoral candidate Jane Lumm contacted
me to ask if she could link to the www.justiceforallmichigan.com
site. This was such exciting and encouraging news. Please
check out Jane’s position on Proposal 2 on her website:
www.janelumm.com.
Click on the “issues” page link and there you
will find a link to her position. Thank you, Ms. Lumm!
Continuing the “encouraging” theme is this as
well:
Detroit Free Press
Letter to the Editor
October 29, 2004
CATHOLICS DISAGREE ON PROPOSAL 2
We, the undersigned Catholic priests and laypeople, must
respectfully dissociate ourselves from the Michigan Catholic
Church's advocacy of Proposal 2, the effort to add a definition
of marriage to the Michigan Constitution.
While we share our bishops' desire to strengthen the institution
of marriage, we do not believe that the proposed amendment
would do this. It seems designed, rather, to exclude homosexual
persons from the privileges and benefits associated with
marriage. It is not clear to us that civil unions between
gay people, by whatever name, pose a threat to traditional
marriage.
The proposed amendment seems an unnecessary and unwise introduction
of discrimination into our Constitution. Many legal experts
believe it would require public institutions to deny domestic
partnership benefits to any couple whose union is not covered
by the proposed definition. This appears to create serious
and undue hardships for a whole class of citizens, and thus
to violate Catholic social teaching.
We believe it is important that people realize that there
is more than one Catholic opinion on this matter. While
respecting the good intentions of its promoters, we intend
to vote no on Proposal 2 on Nov. 2, and we encourage those
who agree with us to do likewise.
Bishop Thomas Gumbleton
The Rev. Justin Kelly
plus 80 Detroit area Roman Catholics, including 19 members
of the clergy
Once again, I can’t thank you enough for your help
and support. I hope people will see the faces of those they
know who will be personally impacted by the passage of this
proposal when they vote.
Chris |
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