Gays not allowed more lasting bonds

May 16, 2008

ONE CAN ALWAYS COUNT ON the Catholic Church and its political arm in the state, the Maryland Catholic Conference, to show their hypocrisy.

The MCC is urging Gov. Martin O'Malley to veto two bills that would offer at least some basic legal protections to gay and lesbian couples who enter into domestic partnerships. According to The Sun's article "Catholic group urges veto of marriage bills" (May 10), the organization apparently believes that domestic partnerships are too easily formed and dissolved to be recognized by the state.

This suggests that gays and lesbians ought to enter the more permanent state of marriage instead.

But of course they can't -- because the church opposed same-gender marriage during the same session that produced these bills as a compromise.