Gay rights and immigration

The struggle for equality isn't just about marriage for the sake of marriage. It's also about keeping families together like the one featured in this article. The Catholic bishops' argument that allowing U.S. citizens to sponsor their partners would "erode the institution of marriage and family by according marriage-like immigration benefits to same sex relationships" is simply ridiculous. They really think that keeping families together instead of apart will "ERODE the institution of...family"? Don't get me wrong - Catholics, like anyone else, are free to believe and practice whatever they want. But it continually disgusts me that such religious groups try to use their beliefs as rationale for publicly opposing fair, civil, SECULAR national law. Hey U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, I'm still waiting for you to lobby to Congress to enact a law banning divorce! Because you don't believe in divorce, do you? Oh, but you DO believe that OTHER citizens should be allowed to engage in civil, secular divorce, even though it is frowned upon by your members? How fair and rational of you! So when WHEN are you going to apply the same logic to gay marriage and similar issues? Jesus Christ!