The National Catholic Reporter is at it again. This time, they’re profiling 12 Catholic women under 40 who are “making a difference.”
They write, “Here are 12 women our judges selected that you may not have heard of, but are making a difference in the church by the work they are doing.”
While many of these women seem like they’re doing wonderful work, the National Catholic Reporter included a pro-abortion rights/pro-gay marriage open lesbian legislator in the mix.
Here’s what they wrote:
Heather Mizeur, 39
PoliticianEven at a young age, Heather Mizeur knew that she wanted to serve others. She now serves as a delegate representing the 20th legislative district in the Maryland General Assembly, a position she’s held since 2007.
She has a passion for service, connected to her love for Christ and the social justice teachings of the church. As a teenager, she was respected by elders and given leadership roles as a eucharistic minister and lector, chair of the Altar and Rosary Society, and member of the parish council. She keeps a commitment to the Catholic beliefs of love, peace and social justice.
As a delegate, she has helped extend health coverage to thousands of low-income women and children, amputees and young adults. She has been a leading proponent to repeal Maryland’s death penalty and improve transitions for the incarcerated. Mizeur, herself a lesbian, was a leader in the debate over same-sex marriage in Maryland. In March, the bill to legalize same-sex marriage passed. For four years Mizeur was the domestic policy director for Sen. John Kerry, during which time she was the principal architect of his 2004 presidential campaign’s health care reform agenda.
Media such as The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Nation and NPR have profiled her work.
“Build a church with open doors, not folded arms,” she says. “A church as enlightened as its Creator. A church whose greatest commandment is to love thy neighbor as thyself.”
Just for evidence sake, here she is in a news article espousing her beliefs on abortion and gay “marriage.”
What is your position on abortion?
I fully support a woman’s right to choice and reproductive freedom.
Should the Maryland constitution be changed to allow same-sex marriages?
I fully support the right of same-sex couples to marry. Maryland’s courts are currently reviewing the constitution to determine whether or not this right already exists. I would oppose any efforts to write discrimination into our constitution. This is a civil issue, not a religious issue. I do not support forcing churches to perform wedding ceremonies.
Unsurprisingly, Mizeur put this article from the National Catholic Reporter on her political website. Great work guys! Way to confuse Maryland Catholics even further.
July 6, 2012 at 5:51 am
The Distorter Strikes Again!
July 6, 2012 at 4:13 pm
Oh don't bait them. Nobody reads fishwrap anyway. It's like if the Raelians were gathering for the return of Cthulu or something–who cares?
July 6, 2012 at 5:44 pm
The people of Maryland need to know these things. Thank you for this post. If we only had the Catholics.
July 6, 2012 at 9:56 pm
Textbook scandal. If her public, contrary to doctrine positions and/or prideful and openly sinful behavior were known to her pastor when she became "a eucharistic minister and lector, chair of the Altar and Rosary Society, and member of the parish council" then he enabled this. It is my hope that if these things are true, they were unknown to him.
July 7, 2012 at 1:59 am
FR Z puts it best…. national catholic fishwrap
July 7, 2012 at 12:42 pm
Here is one Maryland Catholic that isn't confused.
July 7, 2012 at 2:46 pm
"A church as enlightened as its Creator." That sounds downright out of the Screwtape Letters. Think of the pride behind that statement.
"A church whose greatest commandment is to love thy neighbor as thyself." The Great Commandment is to love God with all our hearts, minds and souls and your neighbor as yourself. I suppose there's no need for God if you're already as enlightened as Him.
July 7, 2012 at 7:11 pm
Pomeranian Catholic: "It's like if the Raelians were gathering for the return of Cthulu or something–who cares?" HA HA HA that made my day
July 8, 2012 at 12:54 am
Maryland got 160,000 signatures to put same sex marriage on the referendum in November. A fake husband or a fake wife is perjury in a court of law. Capital punishment can only be banned by banning capital one murder. Temporal punishment cannot be banned. “A church as enlightened as its Creator.” Has Mizeur even read the Declaration of Independence? Human existence is the criterion for the objective ordering of unalienable human rights. The Ninth Amendment says that persons, (created equal by their Creator) have rights in addition to those rights enumerated in our Constitution. The next criminal paroled before he has repented his crime ought to be moved next door to Miseur.
July 8, 2012 at 12:57 am
Any Catholic woman who lets the National Catholic Reporter profile her deserves what she gets.
July 8, 2012 at 7:26 pm
Why does John Allen and Rocco Palmo work for a paper that is clearly against the magisterial teachings of the church?
That is the question I want to know.