For those who are keeping track, State Assemblyman Joe Morelle once again voted in favor of the same-sex marriage act that passed the NYS Assembly yesterday. Morelle is a self-identified Roman Catholic. He has never been publicly censured by the diocese for his support of anti-Catholic initiatives including his unequivocal support for abortion legislation.

It is unfortunate that Morelle is allowed to portray himself as a faithful Catholic while at the same time he legislates in direct opposition to many of the Church’s teachings. I suppose one reason he is never reprimanded is because he always brings home the bacon for the Catholic Family Center. In fact, Carolyn Portanova, CFC CEO, has even donated $1,000 to Morelle’s election fund.

I think I’ll let Pope John Paul II have the last word(from The Gospel of Life):

It is therefore urgently necessary, for the future of society and the development of a sound democracy, to rediscover those essential and innate human and moral values which flow from the very truth of the human being and express and safeguard the dignity of the person: values which no individual, no majority and no State can ever create, modify or destroy, but must only acknowledge, respect and promote.

Christians, like all people of good will, are called upon under grave obligation of conscience not to cooperate formally in practices which, even if permitted by civil legislation, are contrary to God’s law. Indeed, from the moral standpoint, it is never licit to cooperate formally in evil. Such cooperation occurs when an action, either by its very nature or by the form it takes in a concrete situation, can be defined as a direct participation in an act against innocent human life or a sharing in the immoral intention of the person committing it. This cooperation can never be justified either by invoking respect for the freedom of others or by appealing to the fact that civil law permits it or requires it. Each individual in fact has moral responsibility for the acts which he personally performs; no one can be exempted from this responsibility, and on the basis of it everyone will be judged by God himself (cf. Rom 2:6; 14:12).