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Article: Same-sex marriage fuss is really about bigotry
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- August 5, 2003
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altar, marriage has become sacred again. "I believe in the
sanctity of marriage," President Bush said last week. "I believe a
marriage is between a man and a woman. And I think we ought to codify
that one way or the other."
The Rev. James Meeks, pastor of Salem Baptist Church and an
Illinois state senator, said he opposes same-sex marriage for
biblical reasons:
"The Bible actually calls sex between people of the same sex
unnatural," he said. "It would have to have the same position for
[same-sex
] marriage, that it would be unnatural."
But the harshest condemnation came from the Vatican, with Pope