Roman Catholic Cardinal refers to Obama ambassador nominee as a 'faggot'

(AKSARBENT replaced the first video in this post with one that is subtitled.)

From Buzzfeed:

Catholic Cardinal Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez referred to Brewster as a “maricón” — which is usually translated as “faggot” — during a press conference. At his side, Monseñor Pablo Cedano promised the nominee such an unpleasant stay in the country that he will have to return home.

From Americablog's John Aravosis:

     What kind of organization tolerates these kind of slurs, let alone the rape of children?  Paula Deen, a TV chef, lost her entire career for admitting insensitivity to minorities.  But a Catholic Cardinal does the same, and it’s no big deal – just another day at the altar.  After all, when you aid and abet pedophilia, and the literal enslavement of women, what’s a bigoted slur against hundreds of millions of citizens of the world?
     I grew up Christian, but not Catholic.  And even after coming to terms with being gay, I never fully understand why so many of my gay friends who grew up Catholic had such a visceral hatred for the Catholic Church.  Now I do.

     Rodriguez' insulting arrogance and sense of political entitlement is a reminder of how the Roman Catholic Church uses power and deference whenever and wherever it gets it either.
     The Cardinal's ridiculous and unsupported contention that a gay U.S. ambassador would have any agenda other than the interests of the United States is contemptibly typical of the attitude of the Catholic Church, an organization which has no loyalties to any country except the postage stamp principality it calls home, where the Vatican Bank for years routinely violated money-laundering laws.

Omaha Archdiocese promotes Cardinal Dolan state­ment on 'profound injustice' of DOMA ruling five days before NYT busted Dolan for years of lies about his role in Catholic sex abuse scandal aftermath

In a black-is-white torture of logic reminiscent of Catholic abuse of "heretics" during the inquisition, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, speaking for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and joined by convicted drunk driver Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco, chair of the U.S. bishops’ Subcommittee for the "Promotion and Defense of Marriage," said:

“Today is a tragic day for marriage and our nation. The Supreme Court has dealt a profound injustice to the American people by striking down in part the federal Defense of Marriage Act. The Court got it wrong. The federal government ought to respect the truth that marriage is the union of one man and one woman, even where states fail to do so. The preservation of liberty and justice requires that all laws, federal and state, respect the truth, including the truth about marriage. It is also unfortunate that the Court did not take the opportunity to uphold California’s Proposition 8 but instead decided not to rule on the matter. The common good of all, especially our children, depends upon a society that strives to uphold the truth of marriage. Now is the time to

redouble our efforts in witness to this truth...

The truth is that victorious anti-DOMA plaintiff Edie Windsor got screwed out of almost $400,000 in estate tax exemptions because the federal government unconstitutionally (equal protection) refused to recognize her legal marriage to Thea Spyer. No children were involved even though the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops tried to focus irrelevant, ginned-up outrage on kids in its attack on the ruling.

Most Reverend George J. Lucas, Archbishop of Omaha:
DOMA tax ripoff of childless gay couples =
"Preservation of liberty and justice"

     The truth is that the tax-exempt Roman Catholic Church and the Archdiocese of Omaha finds it "tragic" that gay couples who are legally married will finally get the same tax exemptions legally-married straights get. A continued tax ripoff of gay couples is what the Archdiocese of Omaha concurs would be "the preservation of liberty and justice."
     The coauthor of the above statement, including the highly selective concern about "common good," "especially our children" was the President of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, who was busted today by the New York Times for years of lying about his role in putting $57,000,000 of church assets beyond the reach of the 575 people who are suing the Archdiocese of Milwaukee (which he used to head) after enduring some of the most vicious sexual abuse of children by Catholic clergy anywhere in America.

Below: the Archdiocese of Omaha celebrates the "preservation of liberty and justice," its "religious liberty," and its god-given freedom to blatantly violate electioneering laws. Video shot Nov. 6, 2012 by Omaha photographer "Shoot To Fill" at St. Francis of Assisi, 4513 S. 32nd St.

No person shall do any electioneering, circulate petitions, or perform any action that involves solicitation within any polling place or any building designated for voters to cast ballots by the election commissioner or county clerk pursuant to the Election Act while the polling place or building is set up for voters to cast ballots or within two hundred feet of any such polling place or building. Any person violating this section shall be guilty of a Class V misdemeanor.
— (Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-1524(2))

Nebraska Catholic Conference: 'Fortunately' Supreme Court didn't molest NE law denying marriage, civil unions and domestic partnerships to gay couples

Fr. Wetovick: looks
harmless but watch out
(Parish photo)

Not directly related, but fun: Here's some recent news that neither the Omaha Archdiocese nor the Nebraska Catholic conference has issued a press release about — Grand Island priest (Rev. Michael E. Wetovick, left) charged with making terroristic threats, attempted second-degree assault and using a large piece of wood to commit a felony

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From NCC's press release:

Fortunately, the Supreme Court’s rulings are also highly significant because of what the Court did not do: it did not hold that there is a constitutional right to legally recognized same-sex “marriage;” it did not hold that the U.S. Constitution imposes a redefinition of marriage on the states (other than the impact of the procedural ruling on California); it did not rule that sexual orientation is a protected classification. Importantly, the the Supreme Court’s rulings do not have any cognizable impact on Article I, Section 29 of the Nebraska State Constitution, which defines marriage as the union of one man and one woman and prohibits state and local governmental recognition of civil unions, domestic partnerships or any similar same-sex relationship.

Below: Fr. Chris Kubat, (at the 1:40 mark) in May of 2012 before the Lincoln City Council, accusing other people of "intellectual dishonesty" for truthfully pointing out the Nebraska Catholic Conference's efforts to allow mental health professionals to deny gay people referrals to other counselors after they refused to treat them.