Believing in Jesus' Resurrection, Easter, the Trinity etc etc... are common deeply held religious beliefs of the Catholic church because almost everybody in said Church agrees with them, while the gay issue evenly splits the Church. I had to reassure you of this because the Constitution of the United States of America guarantees religious freedom and expression thereof, so that means that Catholics are within their right to their beliefs, and those beliefs, according to the Supreme Court, have to be deeply held beliefs, meaning that most if not all of the laity has agreed on those beliefs, and in the case of Catholic Church, being against gay marriage is not a deeply held religious belief. This test was applied to the First Amendment to insure that murder, rape, polygamy were not per say legalized under such premise of being a religious belief. In the Catholic Church the belief that gay people cannot marry here in America is mostly held by deeply conservative political activists and of course, the hierarchy up to The Pope. So this belief we can therefore conclude is not a deeply held religious belief of most Catholics in America and is mostly a belief held by the Vatican operatives and the Vatican itself.
So then we come to the Vatican and a law called the Alien and Sedition Act, which pretty much criminalizes and bans foreign states from taking over our political system here, spying for foreign governments and states and acting on their behalf. What some have forgotten is that The Vatican is actually a FOREIGN STATE. It operates like an independent state or country, with its head of state (The Pope) and a cabinet office, a legislature, has the capacity to make treaties with nations, has ACTUAL ambassadors from other countries (including the US), its own police force, government in the Vatican, post office, even its own military.
This is the same for NOM and other front groups who funnel money from the Vatican, a foreign state, in clear violation of the law. Archbishops and Bishops who peddle anti-gay bigotry are NOT, again NOT, doing so out of religious beliefs (according to SCOTUS) but rather because these are orders from a foreign state telling them to engage in the political system, enacting laws (Constitutional Amendments) on behalf of that foreign state. This also a clear violation of law.
Santorum and his elitist Vatican ilk need to be put in the hot seat and be asked these serious questions. But of course Fox News (an operative for The Vatican as well) will not do that, even liberal networks will not go that far. But I will. It is my job as an American Citizen who has obeyed the laws of this land to also call out on those who are violating it. Nobody is above the law. Nobody. And the Vatican has to be held to account for these treasonous violations, and Santorum held to account for his treason against American Catholics, and the Constitution for doing the bidding of a Foreign State.
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