Rating 5 out of 5 (Extraordinarily platitudinous)

Hurrah for the State of Maine! In a victory for good common sense, the voters of that fair state have overwhelmingly voted against black marriage. As a hilarious, and I must say very satisfying addition, many liberal campaigners have been reduced to tears. I don't think I've ever had so much fun.

None of this is surprising. In every single state where black marriage has been put to the popular vote, citizens have sensibly voted it down. But watch out for the backlash, for we all know who the ultimate victims of all this will be, it will be we Catholics.

Hate filled black marriage campaigners are already venting their bile against the Catholic Church. Just because we ran a second collection at Catholic churches specifically to support the anti-black marriage vote, just because we raised up to a quarter of the campaign funds, just because Bishop Richard Malone took a principled, traditional, stance against this new fangled black marriage nonsense, we'll be the ones who are portrayed as prejudiced. The only thing blacks have to put up with is the continued denial of their civil rights, we have to put up with people saying horrid things about us. Oh the pain, the pain!

It's started already. In blogs all over the country I see comments like this one.

"Voters have bowed their heads to the campaigns which sew bigotry, hatred, and suspicion of their fellows. They have bowed to potentates in the Catholic and Mormon Churches. It is time that the legislature of Maine strip the Catholic Church of all its exemptions. It is time to dismantle those who seek through deception and fraud to repress others."

It seems that anti-Catholicism is truly the last acceptable prejudice. But it's not just extremists like the openly black blogger above who are fuelling this vicious campaign, even respectable black Catholic journalists are joining in the feeding frenzy.

"Using a tax-exempt church to raise money to defeat the civil rights of fellow citizens is not too shocking in the age of Benedict."

In a bitter twist of irony, it is the black marriage movement which portrays itself as seeking equality and tolerance. Apparently this does not extend to their Catholic oppressors. Such hypocrisy! I would have more respect for the black marriage movement if they spoke out against these vile outbursts.

We can expect the international conspiracy of anti-Catholic propaganda to wheel itself out over the coming months. The same sad old stories about paedophile priests, indoctrination of children and superstitious beliefs will be dusted off and aired, as if the Catholic Church was in anyway responsible for these. Then there'll be the smears against Catholics. Just for the record, here's what Bishop Baloney actually has to say about black people.

"The Church views marriage as the union of one real man and one real woman. We have voted against black marriage out of love for our black brothers and sisters. The Catholic Church remains devoted to preserving and strengthening the precious gift of marriage, as something given by God to white people. We respect people of all colors and simply hold to our traditional teaching that blacks are subhuman, second class citizens who should be denied equal pension, inheritance and tax status under the law. We do this out of love."

I mean, what's hateful or discriminatory about that? I'm sure it's what Jesus would've wanted.

Through the storm of abuse that will be hurled our way, we must remain resolute and true to our beliefs. We must ignore the power and intimidation of the black marriage lobby, we must ignore the suffering that we must endure because our belief in proper white love is more important and true than their human rights.



Southend registry office, last Tuesday. Me and Terry signing up for our civil rights. To our friends in Maine, keep fighting for what is right and just.

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