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Massachusetts Clergy Challenge Roman Catholic Hierarchy to Stop Political Campaign Against Same-Sex Marriage
June 27, 2006"In an open letter to Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley and the Roman Catholic Bishops of Massachusetts, a group of clergy from the state's other leading religious denominations called on the Roman Catholic hierarchy to stop its political campaign to revoke civil marriage rights for same-sex couples. The representatives, board members of the Religious Coalition for the Freedom to Marry, say that the Catholic bishops' ongoing campaign to deny legal rights to same- sex couples married by other denominations amounts to religious discrimination." [Read more]