After 379 corporations submitted an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in support of same-sex marriage, the nation’s leading Catholic school watchdog is calling upon all schools to refuse to honor representatives of these corporations.

The Cardinal Newman Society (CNS), which promotes and defends faithful Catholic education, is adding hundreds of new names to its list of potential school speakers and committee members who should not be given any honors by a Catholic school. These names include representatives from some of the country’s largest corporations who signed an amicus brief asking the U.S. Supreme court to declare “marriage rights” for same-sex persons.

“Such a ruling would be contrary to constitutional, civil, natural and divine law and conflicts directly with Catholic teaching and the position of the U.S. Catholic bishops,” CNS writes.

“The Cardinal Newman Society therefore urges Catholic schools, colleges and universities to refrain from all honors—including public recognition, honorary speaking platforms, and honored positions on boards and committees—for board members and senior leaders of these 379 corporations and business groups . . .”

Some of the signatories of the March 5 brief include Amazon, Apple, Estee Lauder, DIRECTV, Verizon, Twitter, VISA, Pepsico and Staples.

“We will publicly warn Catholic families and their bishops and pastors about any school, college or university that chooses to honor any board member or senior leader of the 379 corporations and business groups that joined in the March 5th brief," CNS continues. "Any such honor does harm to the Catholic Church and undermines our bishops, who have clearly explained why Catholics must defend marriage without compromise.”

The Church has consistently fought any recognition of same-sex marriage. Even Pope Francis, whose “who am I to judge” statement received worldwide acclaim for it’s “tolerance” has been outspoken about the need to preserve traditional marriage.

During a November address at a colloquium on the complementarity of men and women, he said that the definition of marriage as uniting one man and one woman is an anthropological fact.

"We cannot qualify it based on ideological notions or concepts important only at one time in history.” All attempts to redefine marriage violate the rights of children, who “have a right to grow up in a family with a father and a mother capable of creating a suitable environment for the child’s development and emotional maturity.”

The U.S. Bishops have also been consistent in their support of traditional marriage as well as their demand that Catholic communities and institutions should not give honors to anyone who acts in defiance of the fundamental moral principles of Catholicism.

"They should not be given awards, honors or platforms which would suggest support for their actions.”

CNS also confronts misleading statements made in the brief in which the corporations contend that “more than seventy percent of Americans live in a state that celebrates and recognizes same-sex marriages.”

This is not true. “ . . . (C)itizens in only three states—Maine, Maryland and Washington—have voted for laws permitting same-sex marriage,” CNS clarifies. “Another 10 states have laws approved by state legislatures. But in 24 states—two-thirds of the states with same-sex marriage—the practice has been imposed by activist courts claiming a right that appears nowhere in the law or in the U.S. Constitution. The fact of court-imposed laws is no basis upon which the Supreme Court or these corporations should deny the nature of marriage and the rights of American citizens to determine state laws.”

Click here to view a complete list of the corporations who signed the brief.

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