Impossible within the Church. Completely possible outside of the Church in many places in the world today. And completely valid, in those cases. Remember, the Catholic church doesn’t have a monopolly on the definition of the word “valid”.
I’ve never heard of rape being “blown off” at all.
Doesn’t Hinduism consider Catholic marriages to be valid?
It’s fine for you to think something. The problem is when people try and legislate what they think on other people.
Good point.
It’s always about exclusion. Those are public busnisses. You don’t have to agree to supply a product. I’m guessing your okay with not serving people of color as well? Look if that’s how Christians want to act that’s fine, but I promise you to the rest of the world you come off just like people who refused to serve black customers in the civil rights era. Just don’t be surprised if the church continues to loose sway and is marginalized.
I doubt that most religions have any official doctrine about whether marriages in other religions are “valid” or not. Most religions are not as hierarchical as Catholicism and don’t have a magisterium to establish official doctrine.Thorolfr:
Doesn’t Hinduism consider Catholic marriages to be valid?
Date rape is rape and much more common that the scary man at the door waiting rape a woman all alone. Date rape is what gets blown off way too often.
No, but it’s the attention LGBT issues get vs things like rape.
We are letting a some very high profile or frequently repeated cases inform our experience of the situation. The vast majority of transactions occur without anyone caring about the private lives of each other. If we are going to Tit that Tat, you just have to look at the cases of Hobby Lobby and Chick-fil-A. These are both large corporations that somehow now have a religion, this is much different than the baker who doesn’t want to make a cake. This is really not a path we want to continue down. You might also want to consider that religion has been attacking gays and lesbians for years; a little blow back might be expected now wouldn’t it?
Corporations are just groups of people investing their money for a common cause. Since people have religions, why do you think its remarkable that a corporation would too?
What? The issue is literally that they don’t want to sell cakes and flowers to homosexuals. The government cant force you to agree with something personally. That’s the point. Treat the homosexual couple professionally the same way you would a heterosexual couple. You can feel whatever you want, just don’t deny services.