An advocate for America's fighting men and women says she's disappointed the Catholic Church didn't take a stronger stance against the recent lame-duck Congress's reckless decision to repeal the law that banned homosexuals from military service.
In a recent interview, Washington Cardinal Donald Wuerl said the Roman Catholic Church has no official position on whether homosexual men and women should be allowed to serve openly in the military. On Fox News Sunday, Wuerl was asked if he opposed Congress's repeal of the 1993 law banning homosexual military service that President Barack Obama signed into law last week. "That's a question that has to be worked out politically," he offered. "There isn't a specific Catholic Church position." (See earlier story)
But Wuerl, who is archbishop in the nation's capital, reiterated church teaching that sex should be reserved for marriage between a man and a woman. He added that if the church is forced to accept a redefinition of marriage, its ministry becomes limited.
Elaine Donnelly, president of the Center for Military Readiness, says it appeared that Wuerl was not prepared for the question.
"...And he should have been [prepared], because the archbishop who is in charge of military services based in Washington, DC, did issue a statement back in June recommending that the law not be repealed," Donnelly points out.
"But when the issue got right down to the final vote -- the one that ultimately was successful," she laments, "the Catholic Church, among other organizations that had spoken in June, were silent."
Still, Donnelly argues that Congress knew about the June statement and should have taken it into consideration instead of shutting off debate and ramming the repeal bill through in the waning days of the lame-duck Congress.
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