U.S. Bishops Conference Blasts Supreme Court Ruling against Anti-Sodomy Law

WASHINGTON, July 1, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Belleville Bishop Wilton D. Gregory, president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, said that the Supreme Court’s decision, Lawrence vs. Texas, striking down that state’s sodomy law, “is to be deplored.”  Bishop Gregory warned that the ruling “reduces respect” for “the purpose of human sexuality and the family”.  He noted that “The Catholic Church teaches, in agreement with other faith traditions and with what were once the norms generally accepted by society, that sexual activity belongs to the marital relationship between one man and one woman in fidelity to each other. This relationship is the basis of the family which is the basic unit of society.”  See the full USCCB release:  https://www.usccb.org/comm/archives/2003/03-134.htm