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San Francisco Archbishop Appointed

Prominent same-sex marriage opponent.

There goes the neighborhood. A leading Catholic cleric against same-sex marriage has been named archbishop of San Francisco. Fifty-six-year-old Salvatore Cordileone, who raised money and organized faithful to fight for Proposition 8 in 2008, was appointed by the pope. Cordileone is also chairman of the subcommittee for the promotion and defense of marriage for the Conference of Catholic Bishops. “Marriage is the union of a man and a woman, because children can only come about with the embrace of a man and a woman together,” Cordileone said in his first statements after the Vatican announced that he would be leaving his current post in Oakland and heading to the Bay Area. “I don’t see how that’s discriminatory against anyone.”