Catholic Lears Sme Tim Kae’s Gay Marriage Hope

Contents:

• GAY MARRIAGE DEBATE: TIM KAE WANTS ‘RELATNSHIP EQUALY’ DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM
• TIM KAE’S BISHOP RPONDS TO GAY MARRIAGE MENTS
• TMP VOTERS ARE NOW NVCED TIM KAE IS GAY
• TIM KAE: CATHOLIC CHURCH MIGHT CHANGE POSN ON GAY MARRIAGE
• TIM KAE WIGGL AROUND QUTNS ON GAY MARRIAGE
• KAE PREDICTS CATHOLIC CHURCH WILL CHANGE S TEACHG ON GAY MARRIAGE
• TIM KAE PRSED ON GAY MARRIAGE STANCE
• CATHOLIC LEARS SME TIM KAE’S GAY MARRIAGE HOPEHAIL MARYDURG HIS KEYNOTE AT THE HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN DNER LAST WEEK, TIM KAE EXPRSED HOPE THAT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH WOULD CHANGE ’S VIEW OF GAY MARRIAGE. SPOILER ALERT: THAT’S NOT HAPPENG.BETSY SWANFORMER POLIL REPORTERUPDATED APR. 13, 2017 2:51PM EDT / PUBLISHED SEP. 18, 2016 12:15AM EDT PHOTO ILLTRATN BY KELLY CAMERO/ THE DAILY BEAST AT THE HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN’S NATNAL DNER, SEN. TIM KAE EXPLAED HOW HE RENCILED HIS SUPPORT OF MARRIAGE EQUALY WH ROMAN CATHOLIC FAH. THEN HE MA A BOLD PREDICTN: THAT THE CHURCH WILL ONE DAY FOLLOW HIS LEAD. “I THK ’S GOG TO CHANGE BEE MY CHURCH ALSO TEACH ME ABOUT A CREATOR WHO, THE FIRST CHAPTER OF GENIS, SURVEYED THE ENTIRE WORLD, CLUDG MANKD, AND SAID, ‘IT IS VERY GOOD,’” SAID KAE AT THE SEPT.10 DNER, WHICH HE KEYNOTED. “I WANT TO ADD: WHO AM I TO CHALLENGE GOD FOR THE BETIFUL DIVERSY OF THE HUMAN FAY?” HE NTUED. “I THK WE’RE SUPPOSED TO CELEBRATE , NOT CHALLENGE .”THE ANSWER OM CATHOLIC LEARS ME QUICKLY: NOPE. KAE’S BISHOP, FRANCIS DILORENZO OF THE RICHMOND DCE, RELEASED A STATEMENT ON TUDAY UNTERG KAE’S PREDICTN––BUT WHOUT SPECIFILLY MENTNG THE VICE PRINTIAL NDIDATE.“MORE THAN A YEAR AFTER THE U.S. SUPREME COURT’S LG ON MARRIAGE, AND SPE RECENT STATEMENTS OM THE MPAIGN TRAIL, THE CATHOLIC CHURCH’S 2000-YEAR-OLD TEACHG TO THE TTH ABOUT WHAT NSTUT MARRIAGE REMAS UNCHANGED AND ROLUTE,” THE BISHOP SAID. “MARRIAGE IS THE ONLY STUTN UNG ONE MAN AND ONE WOMAN WH EACH OTHER AND WH ANY CHILD WHO OM THEIR UNN,” THE STATEMENT ADD. “REFG MARRIAGE FURTHERS NO ONE’S RIGHTS, LEAST OF ALL THOSE OF CHILDREN, WHO SHOULD NOT PURPOSELY BE PRIVED OF THE RIGHT TO BE NURTURED AND LOVED BY A MOTHER AND A FATHER.”THE UNED STAT CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS RELEASED A STATEMENT ON SEPT. 14 OM TWO OF S PROMENT MEMBERS––THE BISHOPS OF BUFFALO AND DETRO––REAFFIRMG THE CHURCH’S TEACHG: THAT MARRIAGE N ONLY EXIST BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN. “THE CATHOLIC CHURCH’S TEACHG ON MARRIAGE AS EXCLIVELY THE PERMANENT, FAHFUL, AND UFUL UNN OF ONE MAN AND ONE WOMAN NNOT CHANGE,” THEIR STATEMENT SAID. “THE ATTEMPT TO REFE THE SENTIAL MEANG OF MARRIAGE IS ACTG AGAST THE CREATOR,” THEY ADD. OTHER CATHOLIC FIGUR ALSO RIPPED HIM FOR THE REMARKS. “KAE IS SIMPLY PREACHG THE ‘GOSPEL’ OF ANOTHER FAH—AND ISN'T THE CATHOLIC FAH,” WROTE CATHOLIC WORLD REPORT EDOR CARL OLSON. AND MREEN FERGON, A SENR POLICY ADVISOR AT THE CATHOLIC ASSOCIATN, POTED OUT THAT KAE’S HOPED-FOR CHANGE WON’T HAPPEN ON POPE FRANCIS’S WATCH. “IF SEN. KAE WANTS TO GO BEYOND POLICS TO OPE ON THE THEOLOGY OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, HE SHOULD AT LEAST NSULT POPE FRANCIS’ MOST RECENT EXHORTATN AMORIS LAETIA,” SHE SAID A STATEMENT, ‘ WHICH FRANCIS STAT, ‘THERE ARE ABSOLUTELY NO GROUNDS FOR NSIRG HOMOSEXUAL UNNS TO BE ANY WAY SIAR OR EVEN REMOTELY ANALOGO TO GOD’S PLAN FOR MARRIAGE AND FAY.’”KAE, WHO IS A PRACTICG CATHOLIC, DIDN’T ALWAYS DIFFER OM HIS CHURCH ON THE MARRIAGE ISSUE. WHEN A MASSACHETTS URT CISN MA THE FIRST STATE TO LET SAME-SEX UPL MARRY, 2003, KAE RELEASED A STATEMENT SAYG MARRIAGE “BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN IS THE BUILDG BLOCK OF THE FAY AND A KEYSTONE OF OUR CIVIL SOCIETY,” AND CRICIZG THE LG. AND WHEN HE RAN FOR ERNOR OF VIRGIA 2005, HE AIRED RAD ADS SCRIBG HIMSELF AS A “NSERVATIVE ON ISSU OF PERSONAL RPONSIBILY” AND SAYG HE OPPOSED GAY MARRIAGE. HIS POSN SCE THEN HAS CHANGED, AND 2013 HE ANNOUNCED HE SUPPORTED MARRIAGE RIGHTS FOR SAME-SEX UPL. LGBTQ NATN’S JOHN GALLAGHER SCRIBED AS A “FGER--THE-WD” APPROACH. AND MARRIAGE ISN’T THE ONLY ISSUE WHERE HIS POSNS DIVERGE OM THE CATHOLIC CHURCH’S TEACHGS. ROME IS UNFLCHG S OPPOSN TO ABORTN. AND FOR MUCH OF HIS POLIL REER, KAE TOOK A PARATIVELY MORATE STANCE ON THE ISSUE, BACKG A VARIETY OF POLICI––CLUDG PARENTAL NOTIFITN FOR MORS SEEKG ABORTNS––THAT PRO-CHOICE ACTIVISTS OPPOSE. BUT SCE BEG CLTON’S NNG MATE, HE HAS SUGGTED HE MIGHT SUPPORT A REPEAL OF THE HY AMENDMENT, WHICH WOULD LET TAXPAYER DOLLARS PAY FOR ABORTN PROCR. FOR THE MOST PART, CATHOLIC LEARS ARE UNEQUIVOLLY OPPOSED TO THIS STANCE. IT ISN’T UNUAL FOR CATHOLIC DEMOCRATS TO FACE SCTY AS THEY AIM TO RENCILE THEIR RELIG BELIEFS WH THEIR PARTY’S STANCE ON ABORTN RIGHTS AND SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. CATHOLIC LEARS REGULARLY CRICIZED NANCY PELOSI FOR HER PRO-CHOICE STANCE. AND THEN-POPE BENEDICT TOLD HER PERSON TO BACK POLICI THAT PROTECT “HUMAN LIFE AT ALL STAG OF S VELOPMENT,” THE NEW YORK TIM REPORTED. VICE PRINT JOE BIN HAS ALSO DRAWN CRICISM FOR SUPPORTG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. THREE BISHOPS CRICIZED HIM, THOUGH NOT BY NAME, A FEW DAYS AFTER HE OFFICIATED A SAME-SEX WEDDG LAST MONTH, ACRDG TO THE NATNAL CATHOLIC REPORTER. IF KAE STAYS AS OUTSPOKEN AS HE’S BEEN ABOUT HIS DISTASTE FOR ROME’S TEACHGS ON MARRIAGE, HE N EXPECT TO FACE PLENTY MORE HEAT OM THE BISHOPS. BUT HE’LL HAVE PANY. BETSY SWAN
• DEBATE TAKEAWAYS: TIM KAE PRS MIKE PENCE ON RSIA, BUT NOT GAY RIGHTS
• TIM KAE IS YOUR BASIC WELL-INTENTNED, FOOT-DRAGGG, NOT-ALL-THAT-PRO-GAY DEMOCRAT

GAY MARRIAGE DEBATE: TIM KAE WANTS ‘RELATNSHIP EQUALY’ DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM

Former Democratic Natnal Commtee Chairman Tim Kae ched toward an endorsement of gay marriage Tuday and said his party should take a stance on the issue. The Democratic Senate ndidate and former Virgia ernor told reporters he believ that gay upl serve the same “legal rights and rponsibili” as straight upl.

The topic of gay marriage has mand Democrats’ foc this week, sce Vice Print Joe Bin remarked on “Meet the Prs” on Sunday that he supported marriage for gay upl. Spokman Jay Carney stopped short of givg Print Obama’s full view on gay marriage, and stead said his stance has been “evolvg.

TIM KAE’S BISHOP RPONDS TO GAY MARRIAGE MENTS

” The issue aga mak the news on Tuday when rints of North Carola vote on a nstutnal amendment banng gay marriage and civil unns. Brian Brown of the Natnal Organizatn for Marriage and gay rights advote Richard Soris bated the matter on Monday’s NewsHour:.

TMP VOTERS ARE NOW NVCED TIM KAE IS GAY

When asked by reporters if the media would be wrong to say he is for gay marriage, Kae rpond, “Jt say I’m for relatnship equaly. "I have never said I supported gay civil unns, gay marriag, " Kae told the AP 2001.

The Human Rights Campaign celebrated Clton's choice for vice print on Friday, praisg the Clton-Kae ticket for showg unprecented support of equal rights for gay, lbian, transgenr, bisexual, and queer Amerins. ” reference to gay prits.

’ I thk we’re supposed to celebrate , not challenge , ” Kae he pledged to fight for creased rights for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer Amerins, Kae admted he had opposed same-sex marriage until 2005. The US supreme urt legalized gay marriage all stat June troducg Kae, Human Rights Campaign’s print Chad Griff lled Republin nomee Donald Tmp the “gravt threat” the LGBTQ muny has faced a printial electn. Openly gay Virgia State Senator Adam Ebb lled Kae “a great choice.

TIM KAE: CATHOLIC CHURCH MIGHT CHANGE POSN ON GAY MARRIAGE

He did not announce that he officially supported the legal rights of gay upl who wanted to marry until 2013. "HRC is dited to the advocy of the gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr muny.

"Kae ed Tmp's recent praise of Rsian print Vladimir Put as evince Tmp would be a danger to the gay muny.

TIM KAE WIGGL AROUND QUTNS ON GAY MARRIAGE

"Kae also scribed his own personal journey to supportg gay scribed first havg a “nscns raisg” moment about the LGBT muny when he was llege at the Universy of Missouri, and watched gay stunts marchg on mp get mistreated by rowdy stunts who threw bottl at them. It ma me angry and ma me even more nvced that I wanted to stand up and fight for what was right, " Kae, a practicg Catholic, acknowledged his ial stggle to accept the ia of gay marriage.

I knew gay upl as iends my neighborhood. " He predicted that Catholic doctre, which is still at odds wh gay marriage, will change. Tim don’t even support civil unns, tellg the AP 2001, “I have never said I supported gay civil unns, gay marriag.

KAE PREDICTS CATHOLIC CHURCH WILL CHANGE S TEACHG ON GAY MARRIAGE

” (But he do want gay and lbians protected the workplace … somehow … wh “civil benefs”.

As we wrote January 2009: “Tim Kae is pole and nice to gays, but lacks the polil fortu to stand-up to anti-gay measur; he really is the perfect person to n the DNC.

TIM KAE PRSED ON GAY MARRIAGE STANCE

I am nvced Tim Kae is gay. Tim Kae is gay which isn't a bad thg but do the world not see ???

CATHOLIC LEARS SME TIM KAE’S GAY MARRIAGE HOPEHAIL MARYDURG HIS KEYNOTE AT THE HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN DNER LAST WEEK, TIM KAE EXPRSED HOPE THAT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH WOULD CHANGE ’S VIEW OF GAY MARRIAGE. SPOILER ALERT: THAT’S NOT HAPPENG.BETSY SWANFORMER POLIL REPORTERUPDATED APR. 13, 2017 2:51PM EDT / PUBLISHED SEP. 18, 2016 12:15AM EDT PHOTO ILLTRATN BY KELLY CAMERO/ THE DAILY BEAST AT THE HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN’S NATNAL DNER, SEN. TIM KAE EXPLAED HOW HE RENCILED HIS SUPPORT OF MARRIAGE EQUALY WH ROMAN CATHOLIC FAH. THEN HE MA A BOLD PREDICTN: THAT THE CHURCH WILL ONE DAY FOLLOW HIS LEAD. “I THK ’S GOG TO CHANGE BEE MY CHURCH ALSO TEACH ME ABOUT A CREATOR WHO, THE FIRST CHAPTER OF GENIS, SURVEYED THE ENTIRE WORLD, CLUDG MANKD, AND SAID, ‘IT IS VERY GOOD,’” SAID KAE AT THE SEPT.10 DNER, WHICH HE KEYNOTED. “I WANT TO ADD: WHO AM I TO CHALLENGE GOD FOR THE BETIFUL DIVERSY OF THE HUMAN FAY?” HE NTUED. “I THK WE’RE SUPPOSED TO CELEBRATE , NOT CHALLENGE .”THE ANSWER OM CATHOLIC LEARS ME QUICKLY: NOPE. KAE’S BISHOP, FRANCIS DILORENZO OF THE RICHMOND DCE, RELEASED A STATEMENT ON TUDAY UNTERG KAE’S PREDICTN––BUT WHOUT SPECIFILLY MENTNG THE VICE PRINTIAL NDIDATE.“MORE THAN A YEAR AFTER THE U.S. SUPREME COURT’S LG ON MARRIAGE, AND SPE RECENT STATEMENTS OM THE MPAIGN TRAIL, THE CATHOLIC CHURCH’S 2000-YEAR-OLD TEACHG TO THE TTH ABOUT WHAT NSTUT MARRIAGE REMAS UNCHANGED AND ROLUTE,” THE BISHOP SAID. “MARRIAGE IS THE ONLY STUTN UNG ONE MAN AND ONE WOMAN WH EACH OTHER AND WH ANY CHILD WHO OM THEIR UNN,” THE STATEMENT ADD. “REFG MARRIAGE FURTHERS NO ONE’S RIGHTS, LEAST OF ALL THOSE OF CHILDREN, WHO SHOULD NOT PURPOSELY BE PRIVED OF THE RIGHT TO BE NURTURED AND LOVED BY A MOTHER AND A FATHER.”THE UNED STAT CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS RELEASED A STATEMENT ON SEPT. 14 OM TWO OF S PROMENT MEMBERS––THE BISHOPS OF BUFFALO AND DETRO––REAFFIRMG THE CHURCH’S TEACHG: THAT MARRIAGE N ONLY EXIST BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN. “THE CATHOLIC CHURCH’S TEACHG ON MARRIAGE AS EXCLIVELY THE PERMANENT, FAHFUL, AND UFUL UNN OF ONE MAN AND ONE WOMAN NNOT CHANGE,” THEIR STATEMENT SAID. “THE ATTEMPT TO REFE THE SENTIAL MEANG OF MARRIAGE IS ACTG AGAST THE CREATOR,” THEY ADD. OTHER CATHOLIC FIGUR ALSO RIPPED HIM FOR THE REMARKS. “KAE IS SIMPLY PREACHG THE ‘GOSPEL’ OF ANOTHER FAH—AND ISN'T THE CATHOLIC FAH,” WROTE CATHOLIC WORLD REPORT EDOR CARL OLSON. AND MREEN FERGON, A SENR POLICY ADVISOR AT THE CATHOLIC ASSOCIATN, POTED OUT THAT KAE’S HOPED-FOR CHANGE WON’T HAPPEN ON POPE FRANCIS’S WATCH. “IF SEN. KAE WANTS TO GO BEYOND POLICS TO OPE ON THE THEOLOGY OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, HE SHOULD AT LEAST NSULT POPE FRANCIS’ MOST RECENT EXHORTATN AMORIS LAETIA,” SHE SAID A STATEMENT, ‘ WHICH FRANCIS STAT, ‘THERE ARE ABSOLUTELY NO GROUNDS FOR NSIRG HOMOSEXUAL UNNS TO BE ANY WAY SIAR OR EVEN REMOTELY ANALOGO TO GOD’S PLAN FOR MARRIAGE AND FAY.’”KAE, WHO IS A PRACTICG CATHOLIC, DIDN’T ALWAYS DIFFER OM HIS CHURCH ON THE MARRIAGE ISSUE. WHEN A MASSACHETTS URT CISN MA THE FIRST STATE TO LET SAME-SEX UPL MARRY, 2003, KAE RELEASED A STATEMENT SAYG MARRIAGE “BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN IS THE BUILDG BLOCK OF THE FAY AND A KEYSTONE OF OUR CIVIL SOCIETY,” AND CRICIZG THE LG. AND WHEN HE RAN FOR ERNOR OF VIRGIA 2005, HE AIRED RAD ADS SCRIBG HIMSELF AS A “NSERVATIVE ON ISSU OF PERSONAL RPONSIBILY” AND SAYG HE OPPOSED GAY MARRIAGE. HIS POSN SCE THEN HAS CHANGED, AND 2013 HE ANNOUNCED HE SUPPORTED MARRIAGE RIGHTS FOR SAME-SEX UPL. LGBTQ NATN’S JOHN GALLAGHER SCRIBED AS A “FGER--THE-WD” APPROACH. AND MARRIAGE ISN’T THE ONLY ISSUE WHERE HIS POSNS DIVERGE OM THE CATHOLIC CHURCH’S TEACHGS. ROME IS UNFLCHG S OPPOSN TO ABORTN. AND FOR MUCH OF HIS POLIL REER, KAE TOOK A PARATIVELY MORATE STANCE ON THE ISSUE, BACKG A VARIETY OF POLICI––CLUDG PARENTAL NOTIFITN FOR MORS SEEKG ABORTNS––THAT PRO-CHOICE ACTIVISTS OPPOSE. BUT SCE BEG CLTON’S NNG MATE, HE HAS SUGGTED HE MIGHT SUPPORT A REPEAL OF THE HY AMENDMENT, WHICH WOULD LET TAXPAYER DOLLARS PAY FOR ABORTN PROCR. FOR THE MOST PART, CATHOLIC LEARS ARE UNEQUIVOLLY OPPOSED TO THIS STANCE. IT ISN’T UNUAL FOR CATHOLIC DEMOCRATS TO FACE SCTY AS THEY AIM TO RENCILE THEIR RELIG BELIEFS WH THEIR PARTY’S STANCE ON ABORTN RIGHTS AND SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. CATHOLIC LEARS REGULARLY CRICIZED NANCY PELOSI FOR HER PRO-CHOICE STANCE. AND THEN-POPE BENEDICT TOLD HER PERSON TO BACK POLICI THAT PROTECT “HUMAN LIFE AT ALL STAG OF S VELOPMENT,” THE NEW YORK TIM REPORTED. VICE PRINT JOE BIN HAS ALSO DRAWN CRICISM FOR SUPPORTG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. THREE BISHOPS CRICIZED HIM, THOUGH NOT BY NAME, A FEW DAYS AFTER HE OFFICIATED A SAME-SEX WEDDG LAST MONTH, ACRDG TO THE NATNAL CATHOLIC REPORTER. IF KAE STAYS AS OUTSPOKEN AS HE’S BEEN ABOUT HIS DISTASTE FOR ROME’S TEACHGS ON MARRIAGE, HE N EXPECT TO FACE PLENTY MORE HEAT OM THE BISHOPS. BUT HE’LL HAVE PANY. BETSY SWAN

Tmp supporters now claim that Tim Kae, Hillary Clton’s nng mate, married father of two, is gay.

Do Tim Kae e off as kd of a closet homo or is jt me?

DEBATE TAKEAWAYS: TIM KAE PRS MIKE PENCE ON RSIA, BUT NOT GAY RIGHTS

Watch the VP bate and tell me if you thk Tim Kae is gay. A lot of people thk Tim Kae is gay.

Tim Kae is about 110% closeted gay.

TIM KAE IS YOUR BASIC WELL-INTENTNED, FOOT-DRAGGG, NOT-ALL-THAT-PRO-GAY DEMOCRAT

Really gay. C., fundraiser for the Human Rights Campaign ont of about 3, 600 people, Kae lled himself “a vout Catholic” and said that even as he supported non-discrimatn laws for gays and lbians as litenant ernor and then ernor of Virgia, he nohels still “believed that marriage was somethg different.

“I knew gay upl as iends, ” he said. ’” Kae ntued, referencg the pope’s 2013 ment when asked about gay prits the church. Unrepentant Homophobe Mike Pence Used The Debate To Get Ready To Run For Print In 2020.

Will Mike Pence Show His Intense Homophobia At Tonight’s Debate? Tim Kae Is Your Basic Well-Intentned, Foot-Draggg, Not-All-That-Pro-Gay Democrat.