Sentences with phrase «urged churchgoers»
Archbishop of York Dr John Sentamu has urged churchgoers in West Africa not to meet «in big numbers»... More
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Here are some details about that November 2004 ballot proposal: 1) there was already in place a Utah law strictly banning same - sex marriage, which I fully supported; 2) all three candidates for the office of attorney general of Utah (the chief law - enforcement officer in the state) opposed the amendment, including the LDS (Mormon) Republican incumbent, Mark Shurtleff, mostly because they considered it a poorly drafted amendment; 3) I refused to endorse the amendment, but I did not urge people to vote «no»; 4) the leadership of the LDS Church, which has a record for being as strongly opposed to same - sex marriage as the Catholic Church, did not issue a statement urging its members to vote one way or the other; 5) inasmuch as two thirds of Utahans belong to the LDS Church, this means that the leadership of at least 80 percent of Utah churchgoers did not urge a «yes» vote on the amendment.
This weekend, Timothy Cardinal Dolan is sending a plea to 2 million churchgoers, urging them to ask Gov. Cuomo to «put children ahead of politics and fight for the Education Investment Tax Credit.»