Dear Editor: It is difficult to understand why someone could suggest that prayer “may be a wasted effort,” but Garrett Dempsey (Reader’s Forum, June 13) seems to echo some of the assumptions that secularists hold about Catholicism.

Prayer is always good and in the omniscient mind of God, it can affect human events and moments of grace that occurred prior to the prayer’s intentionality. In the case of Catholics praying for a rare moment of sanity in a SCOTUS decision, we are not limited in our concern to future mandates of same-sex marriage proscriptions imposed on the altar.

A nation propagandized by a tyranny of clichés from a monolithic liberal media, constantly reinforcing belief systems originating from pretend-enlightenment, has become isolated from moral sensibility. We do not need a special law to “protect” religious bodies. That’s why we have a Constitution whose freedoms of religion and speech guarantees a right of non-compliance toward arbitrary value judgments creating fictional institutions. Neither same-sex marriage nor unicorns come into existence at human whim.

The Church doesn’t stand by its truths because its members are fastidiously eccentric. She hold’s these truths because they are objectively true, and we are led by God to courageously illuminate the world whether the world wants to hear it or not.

BRUCE MC GUINNIS ESQ.

Whitestone

 

Dear Editor: I totally agree with Deborah Nuzzo’s letter (June 6) regarding “Prayers for Marriage” and what needs to be done.

My friend, Helen, and I did something. We became Rosary captains, sponsored by “America Needs Fatima,” which held Rosary rallies across the U.S. We held one on Saturday, June 13, at Juniper Park, Middle Village. Twenty-three people attended. Unfortunately, it did not make The Tablet.

We hope more churches will consider doing the same. We only have a few weeks for the Supreme Court to make the right decision and uphold traditional marriage.

ANNETTE CAPPELLO

Middle Village