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“I think first and foremost of the stable union of man and woman in marriage," he said. "This union is born of their love, as a sign and presence of God’s own love, and of the acknowledgment and acceptance of the goodness of sexual differentiation, whereby spouses can become one flesh (cf. Gen 2:24) and are enabled to give birth to a new life, a manifestation of the Creator’s goodness, wisdom and loving plan.
“Grounded in this love, a man and a woman can promise each other mutual love in a gesture which engages their entire lives and mirrors many features of faith. Faith also helps us to grasp in all its depth and richness the begetting of children, as a sign of the love of the Creator who entrusts us with the mystery of a new person.”
Anthony Ozimic, communications manager for the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children told LifeSiteNews.com today, “The Pope is linking being pro-life with having a correct understanding of the true nature of marriage. His words will be of great assistance to pro-life organisations who are fighting homosexual ‘marriage’. We know that the homosexual attack on marriage is an attack on the family, which is the best protector of children, both born and unborn.”
Cool. The pope, and other religious leaders can decide what marriage is in relation to their religious beliefs. They do not get to decide the law of this country.
Cool. The pope, and other religious leaders can decide what marriage is in relation to their religious beliefs. They do not get to decide the law of this country.
True but their words inspire the actions of millions in this country who do decide the laws of the country. This is a good reaffirmation to fight your unholy agenda.
Funnily enough, two of the most catholic countries in Europe - Spain and Portugal - as well as some very heavily Catholic Latin American countries known to be more advanced than their neighbors, such as Argentina (where ole' Popey boy is from) and Uruguay - already have gay marriage.
Looks like per usual the ones that listen to the Pope the most are the desperate and uneducated. The almost universal inverse relationship between religiosity and development continues.
The Roman Catholic Church, chastened because of the world wide scandal involving sexual abuse by priests on children, has no moral authority to pontificate (pun intended) on the marriage equality that same sex couples desire.
True but their words inspire the actions of millions in this country who do decide the laws of the country. This is a good reaffirmation to fight your unholy agenda.
Did you forget that we have a constitution in this country?
The people can not vote away the civil rights of other citizens.
AMENDMENT XIV
SECTION 1.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Our constitution trumps your bible when it comes to the laws in this country.
The Roman Catholic Church, chastened because of the world wide scandal involving sexual abuse by priests on children, has no moral authority to pontificate (pun intended) on the marriage equality that same sex couples desire.
No moral authority whatsoever.
Besides, civil marriage is a civil right.
AND, it's the never-ending saga of a bunch of single men, who have no sex, no family, no marriage whatsoever telling other people how to live, and women how to raise their children and control their bodies.
“I think first and foremost of the stable union of man and woman in marriage," he said. "This union is born of their love, as a sign and presence of God’s own love, and of the acknowledgment and acceptance of the goodness of sexual differentiation, whereby spouses can become one flesh (cf. Gen 2:24) and are enabled to give birth to a new life, a manifestation of the Creator’s goodness, wisdom and loving plan.
“Grounded in this love, a man and a woman can promise each other mutual love in a gesture which engages their entire lives and mirrors many features of faith. Faith also helps us to grasp in all its depth and richness the begetting of children, as a sign of the love of the Creator who entrusts us with the mystery of a new person.”
Pope Francis
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I foresee in the future, liberals trying to ban this as "hate speech".
They already do in Sweden.
He says love six times, how could it be hate speech? [PC can turn love into hate, how very commie.]
We in the Boston area have some experience with the Catholic Church leadership's idea of "love".
Regardless, it isn't surprising to see people who personally benefit from reactionary oppression of the masses doubling-down on their discredited corruption. What our nation's founders thought of the Catholic Church 250 years ago still applies:
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Numberless have been the systems of iniquity. The most refined, sublime, extensive, and astonishing constitution of policy that ever was conceived by the mind of man was framed by the Romish clergy for the aggrandizement of their own Order. They even persuaded mankind to believe, faithfully and undoubtingly, that God Almighty had entrusted them with the keys of heaven, whose gates they might open and close at pleasure ... with authority to license all sorts of sins and Crimes ... All these opinions they were enabled to spread and rivet among the people by reducing their minds to a state of sordid ignorance and staring timidity, and by infusing into them a religious horror of letters and knowledge. Thus was human nature chained fast for ages in a cruel, shameful, and deplorable servitude....
-- John Adams, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and Second President of the United States.
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