Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the DUI
arrest of Oakland Bishop Salvatore Cordileone, the archbishop-elect of San Francisco:Bishop
Cordileone was stopped at a DUI checkpoint in San Diego last weekend; he was arrested after
it was determined that his blood-alcohol level was above the legal limit. He
has since apologized.
This
won’t be the end of this story, but not because of what happened. What counts
is who it happened to. It just so happens that Cordileone holds orthodox
Catholic positions on sexuality, the kind of views hated by both secularists
and left-wing Catholics. Consider Winters,
like a lot of embittered Catholic “progressives,” is obsessed with
homosexuality. That is why he was unable to write one paragraph in his screed
against Cordileone without mentioning this subject. The context? Winters wants
the bishop to “think with greater compassion about the complicated lives we all
lead today.” He also wants the bishop to show an “approriate [sic] humility and
humanness.” All of this is code for “shut up and leave the culture to us.”
Gay blog sites have also picked up on this theme. Why? San Francisco is a city
where men [read: gays] are free to walk around naked in the street in front of
women and children. They can even walk into McDonalds totally nude and park
themselves next to Ronald McDonald, provided, the law says, they place a towel
on their seat (hygiene matters). Next month homosexuals will whip each other in
the street and have sex in public at the Folsom Street Fair. This is the city
that Cordileone will soon inherit.
Winters,
and his ilk, want nothing more than to intimidate Bishop Cordileone. They know
he is bright, courageous and faithful to the teachings of the Catholic Church.
That is why they would like to silence him, especially on sexual issues. We
stand with Bishop Cordileone and urge him not to break stride. We are confident
he will not.