AmericanPapist Comments
"Woman, what is that to me and to thee?" John 2:4.
I must confess that the fight against "gay marriage" or whatever you want to call it has never held much attraction for me. To me, the idea has no more reality than the Boston women who claim to have been ordained as priests. Granted, there will be people who think because the State calls it a marriage it must be a marriage, but I doubt these people subscribe to what the Church defines as marriage anyway since divorce and adultery are perfectly legal.
Cf.: Canon 1055 of the Code of Canon Law: "[t]he marriage covenant [is a covenant] by which a man and a woman establish between themselves a partnership of their entire life, which is ordered by its own nature to the good of the spouses and to the procreation and upbringing of offspring ***."
I don't care how you sugar coat it. There's no gay gene not to mention there's no scientific evidence to prove this. Afterall, there is no transport mechanism for gay genes, from one generation to the next. And what the gay crowd will do is that they will try and find anything that is remotely statistical, in a sub category and profess it as the new absolute scientific fact or evidence. It simply is not there. These are all attempts grasping at statistical straws.
I reiterate my previous comment, reading the release makes one suspect that the California bishops don't believe what they say.
Anonymous, please use a nickname so replying to you is possible.
Well, yes, some. But not all.
See: http://www.ccgaction.com/index.p...ge/
cathforprop8
Or:
http://www.oakdiocese.org/pastor...hop/
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Honestly, I don't know why this woman, Thomas, or any other Catholic is surprised by the bishops' statement. I long ago stopped expecting anything of substance from Bishops of the United States. I often wonder how the Bishop selection process at the Vatican works. I often imagine it as going something like this:
"So, who's the most incompetent, weak willed, spineless priest we have in this diocese?"
"Why that's Father fill-in-the-blank."
"He's perfect!"
I mean, sure, occasionally you get a Fulton Sheen, or a Cardinal Spellman, but on the whole they tend to be more Weaklands and Browns.
It was a good and pastoral statment.
Yes, from a Catholic standpoint, gay marriages are no more real than John McCain's. But the civil law is the civil law, not the validation of a sacrament.
Yes, and the civil law should reflect the natural law! Obama says he will force it down everyone's throat, including churches by signing the Employment Non-Discrimnation Act and other measures.
You can't be Catholic and support pro-abort politicians like Obama, Katherine! He voted for infantcide. This is not someone who cares about the helpless or poor!
anaonymous,
if the civil law should reflect natural law, then would it not be wrong to spend taxpayer dollars to provide a staff for Cindy McCain as the president's "wife" should he be elected?
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