Freedom of Religion

I am an American and I strongly believe in the rights given to us under the Constitution of the United State of America. I am also Catholic and very much believe in the teachings of the church. The thing is that to be an American I have to accept that not everyone in this country is Catholic and they have the right to practice teachings that are different from those of my church.

Yesterday we the Democratic Party of New Mexico voted to support Gay and Lesbian rights to practice their religious freedoms to be married by their own churches. We recognized their churches right to the freedom to marry anyone they so choose to under their own belief system. To have done otherwise would be a violation of their constitutional rights in this country.

Now if we plan on not upholding people’s constitutional rights in this state then we should say any marriage performed by anyone outside the Catholic Church is simply not legal. The Holy Pope has clearly stated that ours is the only real religion and that all other are just religious communities. If this is the fact and we are not following the constitution on this matter then the Catholic Church should be the only church allowed to perform marriages that the state would recognize as valid therefore all other marriages are not valid or legal and those individuals should not have any legal rights. Does this sound more then a little nuts to you? Just think how the Gay and Lesbian community in this country must feel at this point in time. Think how their religious leaders must feel about their freedom of religion. As Americans we don’t have the right to take someone else religious freedoms away for them just because they are not our own beliefs unless we are also willing to give up our own in the future. I am not a Lesbian but as an American I will support their rights to freedom of religion as all other Americans should in this state and country.