RSSBill would place state in charge of Catholic Church
Carolyn Hileman - The Voice | March 10, 2009
Connecticut lawmakers are considering a bill that would give the government the right to rule the Catholic Church.
Raised Bill 1098 would remove the authority of the bishop and pastor over individual parishes and put a board of laymen in their place. Peter Wolfgang of the Family Institute of Connecticut says a committee hearing will be Wednesday.
“The two co-chairs of the committee — incredibly powerful men, Representative Mike Lawlor and Senator Andrew McDonald — are the two openly gay legislative champions of same-sex ‘marriage,’” he notes, “so this does feel like it’s a sort of revenge, a payback against the church for leading the fight against same-sex marriage.”
Wolfgang believes backers of the bill are angry with groups who helped advertise and support Proposition 8 to protect traditional marriage in California. Among those groups was the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic fraternal organization.
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