"Two men are friends not spouses."
To many, that is a pithy message of common sense about people with same-sex attraction. For single-sex marriage activists, it is "subtle bigotry" and "intolerance."
The Catholic Church teaches that genders are complementary and that marriage is gender-integrated. This is why the church defends pro-gender marriage. Activists disagree, calling for segregating genders in marriage.
The "friends" message sparked a backlash from single-sex marriage activists in Acushnet, Massachusetts, including a wish to burn St. Francis Xavier Church.
Isn't swearing and threatening hateful, subtle, bigoted and intolerant?
To many, that is a pithy message of common sense about people with same-sex attraction. For single-sex marriage activists, it is "subtle bigotry" and "intolerance."
The Catholic Church teaches that genders are complementary and that marriage is gender-integrated. This is why the church defends pro-gender marriage. Activists disagree, calling for segregating genders in marriage.
The "friends" message sparked a backlash from single-sex marriage activists in Acushnet, Massachusetts, including a wish to burn St. Francis Xavier Church.
Isn't swearing and threatening hateful, subtle, bigoted and intolerant?
Almost as intolerant as the pastor who suggested rounding up all the gays and lesbians and putting them inside a giant electrified fence, to cure them of the gay and make sure there aren't any more gays in the world, right?
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ReplyDeleteThe Catholic church says to treat people who have same-sex attraction with love and dignity; that is not intolerant, that is respectful. The Church also says they deserve to hear the truth--hence, the "Two men are friends not spouses" sign.
The pastor who proposed rounding up homosexuals to let them die off by lack of procreation is intolerant and not helping his cause.
There is a big difference between opposing the idea of gender-segregated marriage and opposing people with same-sex attraction. There is a huge difference between respecting homosexuals and fencing them in. Can't you see the difference, Chris?
You oppose civil unions granting every right of marriage but the word to same-sex couples (including rights of inheritance, hospital visitations, and tax benefits). You oppose gay people just as much as you oppose gay marriage.
ReplyDeleteContracts can take care of inheritance. People can work out hospital visits with the hospitals. And tax benefits? Why should America use taxes to fund gender-segregation in marriage and to purposely deprive children of mothers? Of fathers?
ReplyDeleteWhy shouldn't my future spouse and I get the same tax-break that you and your husband (wife? Sorry, Fran is kind of a gender-neutral name) get? Or would you rather I married a lesbian and had a sham marriage to receive those benefits while courting a man? What would you have me do?
ReplyDeleteContracts can't always take care of rights of inheritance, as spouses retain certain rights that others do not. Hospital visits are not always able to be worked out with the hospital, as family are generally the only ones allowed to spend the night (mother, father, or a spouse). Not "friends" as this church likes to say.
My wish for you is for a healthy, organic, fruitful, fertile, holy, happy, and pro-gender marriage.
DeleteIf you have same-sex attraction, I hope you find help here: http://couragerc.net/
peace
I found help. My friends accepting me for who I am and not telling me to go to therapy because I happen to like guys. My friends treating me like one of the guys. My friends encouraging me to be myself.
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