You mean you need “support” for the factual elimination of one gender (which on its face is dehumanizing)? (etc.) There is absolutely nothing in this post that requires “research.” Making one gender irrelevant is divisive & dehumanizing to the other gender. Any such act is by definition a harm to children.
factcheck.org/what_is_a_civil_union.html
more “sex equals love” nonsense.
What, so you think it’s OK that a child live, for example, with a couple who beat the living snot out of it once a week, on the grounds that ‘well, there are couples out there who’d beat the living snot out of it daily’?
Look at my first post.
The spirit of the law contradicts Jesus? Which spirit are we talking about?
Count me in too. And show us in Dogma, not another “book”.
Kev,
If you have knowledge of anyone treating a child in this cruel manner, it should be reported immediately. No one in their right mind would do this to an innocent child.
Who is “we”?
No one is truly Catholic who supports the gay agenda, which is one of the 5 or 6 great mechanisms of satan in misleading souls away from God.
One place is where He says heaven and earth shall pass away before one letter of the law passes way. He did not abolish the moral law, He intensified it.
From Our Saviour’s own lips - '… have you not heard, ‘God created them male and female. For this reason a man will leave mother and father and cleave to his wife and the two shall become one flesh’.
These are strong statements about the psychological damage of “depriving” people of parents of both genders. Most of the time when we speak of psychological damage, we are referring to things that have been studied and proved by scientists. You, however, choose to attempt to pass off your unfounded ideas as “fact” (albeit articulate unfounded ideas) in multiple threads.
Also, I am a lesbian with three younger brothers very close in age to me (and we are very close). To suggest that if I one day adopted children with a parter I would be “dehumanizing” men is a laughable idea. And based on nothing. I would never do harm to a child, but it has not been proven that I would be. Anywhere.
Hold on there…the Church does not teach that God *made *a person homosexual. God did not make a person homosexual any more than he made them fat or a drug addict. Studies have suggested that homosexuality is caused- at least in part- by environimental factors. Those have nothing to do with how God created them.
It does plenty of harm. The importance of the role of a mother- and the fact that a woman is needed to fulfill that role- cannot be underestimated. The same goes for fathers.
Profaning a sacrament is not a matter of opinion. If you try to confect it without the proper matter, form, and intent, you invalidate it- and profane a holy thing.
Sometimes people who cheat “love each other very much” as well.
Yes- totally. Homosexuals should surround themselves with people (of both sexes), who they can develop close, chaste friendships with. Friendship can be a very powerful thing, and its value is highly underrated in today’s society. Our world is in need of people- men and women- to be good examples of close, chaste friendship.
When you are faced with a large problem, do you try to solve all the little details, or do you go for the root of the problem? It makes more sense to me to go to the root of the problem, and try to fix that. As we get closer to fixing the problem at the root, the other problems that it causes will (perhaps very slowly) be solved. Many people point to the erosion of the family as the source for many of the world’s problems. Domestic abuse, abortion, euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide, homelessness, hunger, financial hardship- all these things, if you think about it, would be solved if families were strong. Strong families means everyone knows their vocation within the family, and everyone carries their weight to the best of their ability (and, out of love for their family, helps those who cannot help themselves). The family is the most important social entity- it is the foundation of society- when that’s falling apart, it only makes sense for everything else to.
Yes. All love comes from God- it cannot come from anywhere else. Homosexual actions are sinful- they do not come from God. They cannot be truly loving. I think many of those who commit them have good intentions when they do, but they are misguided.
It is only a laughable idea to YOU, because you find men not essential to parenting. Your posts reveal a distorted (disordered) view of the inherent value of gender & of the celebration of gender differentiation in the full growth of a child and full participation of both genders in psychological intimacy with that child. To claim anything else, to believe anything else, is to mock God for his creation. Men are not tokens. Nor are they merely useful biologically (for sperm production) & practically (for heavy lifting). Like women, they mirror (equally) the face of God, and need to be equally involved in the raising of children as a priority.
I probably know a good deal more gay parents than you do (unless you live in SF or NYC, I suppose) and as far as I can tell, gay parents of both genders work about ten times as hard as straight parents to incorporate opposite-gender figures into their children’s lives. I don’t think my parents ever thought about the gender balance of my role models, but I know I sure will.In other words, the “support and research” are your personal opinions. And we all have personal opinions.
Or the “support and research” behind your beliefs are the teachings of the Catholic Church. Nothing wrong with that, if you are Catholic.
Then you have to define male and female, which is not defined in law, or in the bible.