Pe. Michael Rodríguez defendendo a Doutrina Católica na Prefeitura de El paso contra o …
In El Paso, Texas, maybe a year or so ago, City Council passed an ordinance extending health-care benefits to unmarried "partners" of city employees. Various groups of El Pasoans came out in public opposition to this measure, both from moral and fiscal points-of-view. The citizens forced a special referendum vote on the issue (not an easy thing to pull off in itself.) In that special election, voters repealed City Council's action by a 55-45% margin.
Soon thereafter City Council proposed to proceed anyway, ignoring the vote of the citizens. Public opposition was successful at that time in preventing them from doing so. Once again, Council came back to fly in the face of the vote of the people (not to mention objective morality) and push this agenda forward again.
On June 14, 2011,(Pentecost Tuesday -within the octave of Pentecost) City Council once again voted - amongst themselves - on whether or …More