CATHOLIC DIOCESES FUND MICHIGAN AMENDMENT PUSH: From the Detroit News
Cardinal Adam Maida, archbishop of Detroit, and the state's seven Catholic dioceses are crusading for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages in Michigan.
Campaign finance reports show the dioceses have contributed half of the $1 million raised thus far by Citizens for the Protection of Marriage, the group seeking passage of Proposal 2 on Nov. 2. The Archdiocese of Detroit has contributed the most--$270,000--and may still contribute more from a fund it uses to support issues of moral importance. Maida also has filmed an eight-minute video that has been distributed to the state's 802 parishes, to be shown before Election Day during Sunday Masses. Reminders in church bulletins and special inserts about the proposal have been distributed to all parishes by the Michigan Catholic Conference. ...
The group opposing Proposal 2, the Coalition for a Fair Michigan, had raised $194,815 as of Oct. 1. Dana Houle, a Catholic and coalition spokesman, said that since same-sex marriages already are illegal in Michigan, the church's donations are a foolish use of money--"especially at a time when the archdiocese is closing churches, other archdioceses are declaring bankruptcy and cutting programs."
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