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<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid"><BR>From: Catholic League <lg@catholicleague.org><BR>Subject: BIG NIGHT FOR CATHOLIC VALUES<BR>To: arthurkelly@yahoo.com<BR>Date: Wednesday, November 4, 2009, 2:19 PM<BR><BR>
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<P class=MsoNormal>November 4, 2009</DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">BIG NIGHT FOR CATHOLIC VALUES</SPAN></B></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal>Catholic League president Bill Donohue offers the following observations on yesterday’s electoral results:</DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal>The Catholic Church led the fight in Maine against those seeking to reinvent marriage, and won: the vote was 53-47 to repeal the state’s gay marriage law. Bishop Richard Malone deserves credit for fighting against those who sought to restructure this vital institution. Those who favor the right of two men to marry are now 0 for 31 in the states. The people have spoken. The time has come for homosexuals to pack it in.</DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal>Those who champion gay marriage and abortion-on-demand lost in New Jersey and Virginia, posting more wins for Catholic values. Jon <SPAN class=SpellE>Corzine</SPAN> supports the right of two men to marry and is a radical on the question of abortion. <SPAN class=SpellE>Creigh</SPAN> Deeds is worse: he once opposed partial-birth abortion but later switched in favor of it; similarly, he said he was opposed to gay marriage but then campaigned against a state constitutional amendment to ban it. At least <SPAN class=SpellE>Corzine</SPAN> was honest. In any event, the defeat of <SPAN class=SpellE>Corzine</SPAN> and Deeds is a victory for marriage and children.</DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal>There is one piece of unfinished business: the defeat of health care legislation that forces the public to pay for the killing of children in <SPAN class=SpellE>utero</SPAN>, and eliminates conscience rights for doctors and nurses. The bishops have spoken clearly on this subject. While they want health care reform, and are especially vocal about the need to help the poor, they will not support any bill that funds abortion. Nor will they support any legislation that vitiates conscience rights. President <SPAN class=SpellE>Obama</SPAN>, who says he is opposed to any health care bill that funds abortion, and is against nixing conscience rights, has never once registered any displeasure with current bills that do just that. Deeds tried to fool the people, and look what happened to him—he got creamed. </DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal>It was a big night for Catholic values. Hope everyone gets the message.</DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Susan A. <SPAN class=SpellE>Fani</SPAN><BR>Director of Communications<BR>The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights<BR>450 Seventh Avenue<BR>New York, NY 10123<BR>212-371-3191<BR>212-371-3394 (fax)</SPAN> </DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV>
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