George Lucas, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Omaha, Nebraska, is trying his damnedest to repeal the city’s sexual orientation nondiscrimination ordinance, which was passed in March.
An anti-LGBT conservative group called the Heritage Coalition is working to beat back the protections, which Ford notes they were able to do successfully last month in Lincoln.
Archbishop Lucas sent a letter to every parish priest in his diocese, explaining that the Heritage Coalition needs to collect 12,000 signatures in order to force a referendum on the ordinance in spring 2013, and that they should feel free to devote parish time and resources to the Coalition’s signature-gathering effort, should they so choose. A local conservative blog posted the text of Lucas’s letter, which I’ve reproduced in full below (emphases mine):
What a scumbag…So deserves our Douchebag of the day award…
