Proposals by President Obama and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus includes a provision that declares same-sex partners of Americans are among those who would be eligible for visas. The Human Rights Campaign and other gay advocates welcomed the recognition, arguing current laws unfairly treat people in gay or lesbian relationships "as strangers." The idea has the backing of the National Council de la Raza and other liberal Latino groups. But Catholic bishops, with the support of evangelicals and other theological conservatives, have sent a letter to Obama protesting his proposal. Only, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops would not provide a copy of the statement, saying the signatories agreed not to make the letter public.
Bishops, why the secrecy? Who are we afraid of offending? Is this false tolerance? Obama, on the other hand, is completely naked and aggressive in his ambitions of greed for power. He promised immigration reform, but added the gay footnote. He doesn’t care who might take umbrage. He just does what his off-kilter conscious tells him is “right.” The Catholic Bishops have the Truth on their side; why not share this with the world? Although, I do not understand the intricacies of diplomacy, I am reminded of something written by the great Bishop Fulton Sheen: “There is no other subject on which the average mind is so much confused as the subject of tolerance and intolerance. Tolerance is always supposed to be desirable because it is taken to be synonymous with broadmindedness. Intolerance is always supposed to be undesirable, because it is taken to be synonymous with narrow-mindedness. This is not true, for tolerance and intolerance apply to two totally different things. Tolerance applies only to persons, but never to principles. Intolerance applies only to principles, but never to persons. We must be tolerant to persons because they are human; we must be intolerant about principles because they are divine. We must be tolerant to the erring, because ignorance may have led them astray; but we must be intolerant to the error, because Truth is not our making, but God's. And hence the Church in her history, due reparation made, has always welcomed the heretic back into the treasury of her souls, but never his heresy into the treasury of her wisdom.”