Listen Up Catholic Legislators

“With regard to the issue of same-sex marriage, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, led by the future Pope Benedict XVI, taught unequivocally in 2003 that before legislation in favor of same-sex unions, ‘the Catholic lawmaker has a moral duty to express his opposition clearly and publicly and to vote against it. To vote in favor of a law so harmful to the common good is gravely immoral.’ To say ‘gravely immoral’ means that if a Catholic legislator with deliberate consent votes in favor of same-sex marriage, it is a mortal sin, which would cut off the person’s communion with Christ and endanger the person’s eternal salvation.” Father Roger J. Landry, Diocese of Fall River, MA