The bishops, Gerald Kicanas and Thomas Olmstead, co-authored a letter to Catholic congregants in the state in which they claimed that the anti-gay-family amendment, Proposition 102, "is in alignment with our deeply held moral beliefs regarding marriage."

The bishops also warned that the amendment was necessary, since without it the state’s judicial system might one day rule that withholding marriage equality from gay and lesbian families is unconstitutional on the basis that it is discriminatory, thus setting aside the state’s existing law reserving marriage as a special right exclusive to heterosexuals.

Gay Marriage Ballot Wars Heat Up in Ariz
by Kilian Melloy
EDGE Contributor
9.5.2008