Alderman Moreno attacks Cardinal George!

Ald. Moreno the Moron

Hey Ald. Moreno, you're a big idiot. Do you think you're going to win this one?
From CBS CHICAGO. “I was born and raised here, and my understanding of being a Chicagoan never included submitting my value system to the government for approval,” George said in the Sunday posting. “Must those whose personal values do not conform to those of the government of the day move from the city? Is the City Council going to set up a ‘Council Committee on Un-Chicagoan Activities’ and call those of us who are suspect to appear before it?”
The cardinal spent the rest of the post arguing against gay marriage using philosophical arguments.
“Approval of state-sponsored homosexual unions has very quickly become a litmus test for bigotry; and espousing the understanding of marriage that has prevailed among all peoples throughout human history is now, supposedly, outside the American consensus,” he wrote.
George wrote that marriage by definition has to involve “complementary” genders, and that same-sex marriage is “a contradiction in terms, like a square circle. He also said people who are not Christian or religious at all “take it for granted” that marriage is between a man and a woman “for the sake of family, and, of its nature, for life.”
“Jesus affirmed this understanding of marriage when he spoke of ‘two becoming one flesh’ (Mt. 19: 4-6). Was Jesus a bigot? Could Jesus be accepted as a Chicagoan? Would Jesus be more “enlightened” if he had the privilege of living in our society?” he wrote.
He argued that same-sex marriage clashes with freedom of religion, and, “Surely there must be a way to properly respect people who are gay or lesbian without using civil law to undermine the nature of marriage.”

Chicago Archdiocese spokeswoman Colleen Dolan told the Chicago Tribune that the blog post had gotten the largest response the Archdiocese has ever seen, and most of it was “overwhelmingly positive.”
But Moreno fired back at the cardinal. Speaking to the Tribune, he accused the cardinal of saying “Jesus believes in this, and therefore we all must believe this,” a position he called “disingenuous and irresponsible.”
Moreno told the Tribune he was raised Catholic himself, served as an altar boy, and now occasionally attends church. He told the paper that the God he believes in is “about equal rights,” including the right to marriage.
Moreno also told the Tribune that he questions George’s right to the “moral high ground on equal rights,” noting the scandal in the Catholic Church surrounding pedophile priests.
Maybe Rahm can gag Moreno.