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Posted on 04/15/2016 10:06:00 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Media coverage of Pope Francis’ Amoris Laetitia typically noted that it reaffirmed the Catholic Church’s opposition to gay marriage. Slate’s William Saletan acknowledges the literal truth of that reporting, but suggested in an April 8 article that the document contains seeds that will sprout into Vatican acceptance of same-sex unions, though he admits that process “might take centuries.”
Saletan argued that in time, the Church will extend Amoris Laetitia’s treatment of infertile heterosexual couples to same-sex couples: “This double standard, between homosexuality and other forms of infertility, is the cracked pillar at the foundation of the church’s policy against same-sex unions. It’s how Catholic teaching on homosexuality will eventually collapse.” …
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Will there still be queers centuries from now?
Whatever fagboy, in your dreams...
NOT cowboy bob, the author of this trash...
Yessiree, right up the wazzoo. It’s a holy thing./s
We're not doing these people any good by playing along and celebrating their disorder.
Protestant here, but I’m pretty sure the Catholic church’s beef with active homosexuals is not the “infertility.” It’s the sodomy, stupid.
They left out that silly part where infertile couples will have a man AND a woman raising the kid.
Maybe Centuries after the Slate building is a Mosque.
Tommy-boy is spouting the same garbage as all those people in the Bible who got smited by the two-edged sword of God and dropped kicked into the Pit of Hell.
The bad news is there will still be queers.
The good news is Slate will be a conservative information
source.
Juvenal answered in the affirmative, writing circa 100 AD :
"Yes and if we only live long enough, we shall see these things done openly: people will wish to see them reported among the news of the day"
He was referring to clandestine "gay marriages", which were evidently common practice among the aristocracy at that time.
I think it's ironic that it took the "cycle of ages" to make his prophecy come true, since he evidently saw this coming about by evolution of the Roman society with which he was familiar.
Let's make a deal.
Will the deviant perverts agree to STFU, if we stipulate that it is possible?
Like immediately?
Cease to pollute our schools with their militant advocacy, and stop violence against normal people and cease to use rent seeking to harness the power of central government to punish and bankrupt normals?
In other words, Stop the Freakin' Hate!
hmmm- slate is telling God that He will comply or else? That aught to go over big in Heaven
If the “Catholic Church” accepts sin, rejecting scripture, it will no longer be Catholic.
There’s official policy and there’s unofficial policy. The Church may not accept gay marriage, but it has looked the other way for most of the last two generations at gay priests.
So, it has stuck to its principles on gay marriage, while looking the other way on sodomy, and particularly sodomy conducted under the coercive effect of authority.
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Natural laws learned over thousands of years were mocked, ridiculed, overturned, and even outlawed. Toward the end, homosexual drill sergeants prowled the barracks grooming receptive teenage recruits. Hey, we were told, it’s their business, and who are you to judge them? Later, they could get married in the post-interfaith worship center by a military spiritual advisor (“chapels” and “chaplains” having been purged from the lexicon for favoring the Christian faiths) and then move on to adopting children.
And finally, the last old-guard bunker to fall: the Boy Scouts, completing the cycle of government-approved sodomite corruption. For a century the Scouts were morally straight? According to whose definition of straight? So why shouldn’t adult homosexual Scout leaders share tents with teenagers in our brave new world? Don’t be a homophobe, we were told. Each child can make his or her own free choice about their gender identity, but now with helpful adult mentors to guide them along the formerly forbidden paths.
If it feels good, do it. Or have it done to you. Or even do it unto the little children. Tommy wants to become Tomasina before heading to kindergarten? Her brave new mommy agrees? A government-provided surgeon will perform the “gender reassignment” operation. And if kindergarten isn’t soon enough to put the kids on the unrepressed road to gender identification, then start them on Heather Has Two Mommies and Prince and Prince cartoon books in the government-subsidized day care centers.
Smiling experts assured us that we were merely throwing off the shackles of our repressed sexualities. Dissent is hate, and hate is not tolerated around here, mister, so shut up and get with the program. Well, I couldn’t get with the program, so I quit my public high school job. As a world history teacher, moving from a public school to a Christian academy (at less pay and fewer benefits) gave me a couple more years of insulation from the social wreckage cascading down.
I kept looking up for the big asteroid, but we didn’t need God to smite us from outer space. In the end, we smote ourselves with our hubris, believing that we were replacing God’s wisdom with our own. The proud decadence and in-your-face cultural perversions didn’t cause the Rupture, but they were surely flashing red signs warning that the end was near.
It must be the history teacher in me who always seeks historical precedents and comparisons. The former USSR, with the full power of a mass-murdering totalitarian state behind it, attempted for seventy-five years to create a new society of atheist but socially altruistic New Soviet Men—and failed utterly to achieve it. The Soviets considered this a goal worth slaughtering tens of millions of their countrymen, and they still couldn’t achieve it. Not even across four generations and with an entire archipelago of Gulag slave labor camps.
But not even the mass-murdering Soviet rulers were foolish enough to attempt to outlaw sexual differences and mandate a New Genderless Person in the name of perfect political correctness. What sane person in the United States could possibly have thought that our own vastly more ambitious experiment in social re-engineering would turn out any better than the simpler economic revolution attempted by the USSR?
Our modern human folly is so easy to understand in retrospect. A gullible generation or two can be brainwashed into believing that up is down, that there is no absolute wrong or right, and that the old natural laws can be abolished according to the social and political fashions of the age.
But of course even widely held false beliefs are not the same as the truth. The belief that the law of gravity has been repealed as being unfair to the heavy can easily be tested with a single step away from a cliff. The enduring truths of other supposedly outdated natural laws took longer to test, but in the end the proofs were just as conclusive, and just as fatal, but on a much vaster scale.
Just like square circles and married bachelors?
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