For doing his job

The Successors of the Apostles are supposed to spread the truth. We are at a point in time when that can be such an act of courage in a culture hostile to the truth, that it gets honored with an award.

The Congress of Racial Equality, one of the nation’s oldest civil rights groups, has announced it will present an achievement award to Bishop Robert Morlino of the Catholic Diocese of Madison, Wis.

The award recognizes Bishop Morlino for exercising his free speech and religious free-exercise rights in the face of intense pressure designed to silence him — and thereby chill the rights of others — in the weeks preceding the recent marriage state constitutional amendment vote in Wisconsin. Bishop Morlino was targeted because he was the most visible proponent of the amendment measure banning same-sex “marriage” in Wisconsin, the group said.

For years, those seeking to invalidate America’s marriage laws in court have attempted to advance their cause by invoking analogies to civil rights, the group said. This award is the first time that a major civil rights organization has publicly acknowledged the reality that the basic civil liberties of groups and individuals in America who believe in the protection of marriage are increasingly being challenged.

Thank you, Bishop Morlino, for being a good shepherd….and reaching for the strays.