New Archbishop Supports Immigration Reform but Opposes Same-Sex Marriage

From the San Francisco Chronicle:

San Francisco’s new archbishop has risen to the top of the Catholic hierarchy by tackling in the most strident terms the hot-button issues facing the church.

After California voters banned same-sex marriage in 2008, Salvatore Cordileone told a Catholic radio show that “the ultimate attack of the Evil One is the attack on marriage.”

Organizers of Proposition 8 said Cordileone was key to getting the measure before voters. . . .

But Cordileone also has taken more liberal stances on immigration and the death penalty. He favors a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, and opposed the federal Secure Communities program to require local law enforcement to send the fingerprints of arrestees to federal officials and checked against an immigration database.

He was one of the early supporters of Proposition 34, the measure on the November ballot that would ban the death penalty and replace it with life without parole. Read more…

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