The cardinal mocked a secular culture that “seems to discover new rights every day.”
“I don’t recall a right to marriage,” he said, describing marriage, instead, as a “call.”
—Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan, 2012
Marriage is one of the ‘basic civil rights of man,’ fundamental to our very existence and survival.”
—Loving v. Virginia, 1967
[Cross-posted at The Reality-Based Community]
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