Thank you for your thoughts. I agree, no one is asking that the church bless and support all gay marriages so let it go already. It is about civil rights not religious rights.
There is no right to marry in any constitution in the country, just as there is no right to drive a car. Both require licenses.
Homosexual marriage is not a matter of civil rights. The right claimed by homosexuals, which the Massachusetts case (
Goodridge v. Public Health) was based on, is found in the Equal Rights Amendment, and there is no violation of homosexuals’ rights there, either. Before
Goodridge* all citizens had equal rights under the law. All were allowed to marry anyone of the opposite sex who would have them. That homosexuals chose not to availl themselves of that right was a decision they made. Rather than accept the consequences of their decision, homosexuals have searched and found corrupt judges to champion their cause from the bench and have succeeded in several states in making homosexual marriage legal. It is a corruption of justice and constitutional law which has deprived the people of their right of self-government and religion is not a factor. In every single state where homosexual marriage has appeared on the ballot the proposition has lost and the will of the people is clear. We do not want the idea of marriage corrupted to accomodate sexual gratification or sexual preference.
As to the Massachusetts case, it was decided 4-3 with the Chief Justice, Margaret Marshall, an immigrant from South Africa and a liberal political activist all her adult life, writing the decision. Marshall was a supporter of the homosexual agenda for years before being named to the bench. She had spoken before homosexual activist groups and clearly was their friend. She should have recused herself from the case since she knew how she would decide it before it came before her. Before she could write her decision in
Goodridge she had to change the definition of marriage, which shows you the level of her deceit. She got away with it and the rest is history. Just another corrupt judge.
Marriage itself is not the whole story. To accomodate homosexual marriage we are having shoved down our throats the rest of the agenda, which includes the truly odious practice of brainwashing 5 year old children by lying to them with the notion that Heather has two mommies. Heather, like every other individual on the face of the earth, has one mother and one father. Dragging little kids, who, in their innocence, will believe anything told to them by an adult, into the homosexual agenda is an abomination. If the homosexual community had any decency at all they’s insist the practice be stopped at once! But there is no decency with homosexual activists. They want their agenda written into the law and will stop at nothing to get their way. They demand tolerance for their views, but are the most intolerant people in the country and will do their best to ruin anyone who opposes them.
And it’s not about rights. It’s about normalizing homosexuality and homosexual behavior. Homosexuals fantacize that, if their sexual activity is accepted by society they will rid themselves of the guilt that hounds them, but it won’t. Homosexuality is abnormal and will never be anything but abnormal and, sad to say, their guilt will hound them to the grave.
Divorce is not ‘illegal’ in the Catholic Church. There is no such thing as divorce in the Catholic Church. If you are married in the Catholic Church, you are married to your spouse forever. Divorce is a civil procedure and has nothing to do with the Church. Divorced Catholics are full members of the Church and may receive the Sacrament so long as they don’t violate the 6th Commendment. That means celebacy, unless they can get their marriage anulled.*
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