Comments on: BREAKING: Nebraska Catholic Archbishop Spearheading Charge to Remove Housing Nondiscrimination Protections

By: Priya Lynn

Priya Lynn — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 17:41:43 +0000

No Tim, christianity is about Jesus loving you and if you don’t love him back he’ll torture you for eternity.

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 15:30:50 +0000

This breaks my heart. I thought christianity was about loving your fellow man…not opressing them. It saddens me to think that a man in a leadership position is willing to–and okay with making these kind of statements.

No wonder I have turned my back on the Catholic church-even if I believe (some of) their teachings are wonderful and are a positive influence on our society.

By: Tim

Tim — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 15:32:22 +0000

I am very disappointed that the Omaha Archdiocese is taking this position. I had hope and faith in this new leadership but we continually seem to miss the point and miss an opportunity to make this world better with less discrimination, not more that is supported by the Catholic Curch. Shaking my head!

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 21:57:09 +0000

this is one of the reasons I consider myself a recovering Catholic, because I am trying to block from my mind all the hypocritical nonsense they throw out to their church goers. Just gives me even more evidence that the church is nothing I want to be a part of.

By: Doug

Doug — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 21:20:28 +0000

Wrong. It says to me he’s giving the passive/aggressive green light to the parishes to participate. Saying it without saying it. “I’m not telling you what to do, but…” wink wink. That’s how it reads.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 21:12:11 +0000

actually, if you read it more carefully, the Archbishop is giving each parish the CHOICE to participate or not. He has not given any opinion on how he feels himself. Quite the contrary, the fact that he has NOT mandated that the parishes participate in any way in this signature gathering is a very, very loud statement. Quiet your own backstories and read between the lines, people…

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 19:04:46 +0000

If the Catholic Church wants to get political, then they should pay taxes. The Catholic Church is full of hypocrites. What happened to the teachings of Jesus Christ? Don’t judge. Love thy neighbor? Practice what you preach Catholic Church! This is one of the many reasons my wife and I left the Catholic Church. And, don’t give the argument about what it says in the Bible about homosexuality…we are not to judge. And, if your argument is that it’s a sin, well, a sin is a sin regardless of what it is. We all have sinned, so should we all hate each other then? The only person who never sinned was Jesus and Jesus loved all.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 18:07:28 +0000

Discrimination and is alive and well. Lincoln city council passed such an ordinance and it was overturned by petition. The argument was that it should be by the vote of the people and the majority wins. No such outrage when discrimination was banned due to age or handicap by the city council. A very thin veil of hate.

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Fri, 28 Sep 2012 17:59:38 +0000

[...] Archbishop George Lucas of Omaha, Nebraska recently sent a letter to every parish priest in his diocese in which he gave them permission to devote parish time and resources to an anti-LGBT group that’s gathering signatures in order to force a referendum on Omaha’s sexual orientation nondiscrimination ordinance, with the goal of overturning the law. [...]

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 13:58:36 +0000

Martin Luther was right. The Catholic Church is corrupt and needs to reform.