A local
priest who mailed a public notice regarding a “homosexual culture war”
to thousands of residents in the Westville area is sticking by his
controversial letter one week later.
Father Timothy
Sauppé sent the letter to all residents with in the 61883 ZIP code on
Aug. 11 “in order to evangelize and protect St. Mary’s Catholic Church
from future attack,” according to the church’s website.
“I was doing the
public a service by letting people of goodwill know that they have the
right to not to condone same-sex marriage,” Sauppé said.
In the letter,
Sauppé states that same-sex marriages go against “Natural law” because
“two women and two men cannot naturally produce children” and “children
have the natural right to a mother and father at the same time,” and
“are not to be used as the pawns in the homosexual cultural war.”
Sauppé told the
Commercial-News on Tuesday he felt he needed to inform the public the
Supreme Court ruling gave churches the right to continue to advocate
against same-sex marriage.
“This was a
dual-purpose letter with community events on one side and a public
notice on the other,” Sauppé said “As pastor, I’m not only over
Catholics, but I’m over everyone within my parish boundaries and a lot
of those people don’t know about the other side to this issue.
“So I was doing a public service to them by explaining that we have a constitutional right not to condone [same-sex marriage].”
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