The Civil Rights Commission report: Ignore it | National Catholic Reporter

The Civil Rights Commission report: Ignore it | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: The Civil Rights Commission was following the conventional language on religious liberty, which is inexact.  What they were condemning was what I condemn - attempts to exercise religious power over the culture and individuals.  There is a long history of that, especially in the Catholic Church.  In one instance, civil rights, it was a good thing.  Lately, not so much.  Archbishop Lori and company often speak religious liberty but mean religious power.  Of course, if they admitted what they meant, we would laugh him out of the room,  BTW, to reiterate, the Church disapproves of all civil marriage - and if it gives benefits to hetero couples anyway while denying them to gay couples, that is bigotry, pure and simple.