Archbishop Dolan criticizes same-sex marriage, distinguishes Notre Dame’s Bush, Obama awards
April 24, 2009
In an interview with the New York Post, Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York criticized the push to legalize same-sex marriage in the state. “There's an in-built code of right and wrong that's embedded in the human DNA," he said. "Hard-wired into us is a dictionary, and the dictionary defines marriage as between one man, one woman for life, please God, leading to the procreation of human life. And if we begin to tamper with the very definition of marriage, then we're going to be in big trouble. We're not anti-gay-- we're pro the most basic definition of marriage."
Asked why he criticized the University of Notre Dame’s decision to award President Barack Obama, but did not offer similar criticisms when President Bush received the same honor, the archbishop distinguished President Obama’s support for legalized abortion from President Bush’s support for capital punishment and the Iraq War. “On those two hot-button issues that I'd be uncomfortable with, namely the war and capital punishment, I would have to give [Bush] the benefit of the doubt, to say that those two issues are open to some discussion, and are not intrinsically evil," Archbishop Dolan said. "In the Catholic mindset . . . that would not apply to abortion."
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