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Does Buttigieg Really Have A Husband?
Catholic League ^ | January 17th 2023 | Bill Donohue

Posted on 01/21/2023 6:40:14 PM PST by Ennis85

Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on Pete Buttigieg’s claim that he has a husband:

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg recently told Fox News host Brett Baier that his travel expenses were not inappropriate, especially given that other public officials have taken their spouses on official business trips. “Why is it any different when it’s me and my husband?” Baier had no answer.

Does Buttigieg really have a husband? Of course not. He may love Chasten but he can never be his husband. Why not? Because he has been disqualified by nature.

It is true that Buttigieg is legally married, but that is a legal fiction. The Britannica Encyclopedia defines a legal fiction as “a rule assuming as true something that is clearly false.” The idea that a man can have a husband is clearly false—he can only have a wife—despite claims to the contrary.

Buttigieg’s “marriage” is recognized by the positive law, or by what lawmakers and judges posit, but it is not recognized by the natural law. The natural law, which was first promulgated by Aristotle and Cicero (and later amended by Aquinas), holds that morality is a function of human nature, and that we can arrive at moral strictures on the basis of observation and reason.

As human beings, Aquinas said, we are given to three natural inclinations, one of which is reproduction (the others being self-preservation and reason). Reproduction has been ordained by nature, and nature’s God, as the province of a man and a woman. Two men cannot reproduce anymore than two women can. It therefore makes no sense to say that people of the same sex can marry.

Marriage exists so that the sex drive of men and women can be constructively channeled in such a way as to provide for stable families, without which children suffer. But only people of the opposite sex are capable of performing this function (even allowing for the reality that some are sterile).

There is an anatomical goodness-of-fit to a man and a woman that permits them to become one flesh, and it is this union—and only this union—that allows them to reproduce. This is natural. Without a male and a female mating, the world would come to an end. Deviations from this are therefore unnatural.

Think of it this way. It is an axiom of natural law that everything has a law that is built into its nature. For example, it is a law of electricity that if we want to generate it, we must insert the plug into the socket. Having two plugs or two sockets touch each other delivers no juice. Plugs and sockets are related, but they are different, and attempts to conjoin them always render sterile results.

Here are some other analogies.

No man can have a husband anymore than a man can bear a child. He can say he does but that doesn’t make it true. A stepfather can tell strangers that he is the father of his wife’s children, but that doesn’t make it true. If someone introduced his uncle to a stranger, saying, this is my aunt Joe, no one would believe him. Those who have blue eyes can claim they have brown eyes, but that doesn’t change reality. A left-handed person can claim to be right-handed, but observation tells us otherwise. Gorillas do not give birth to kangaroos.

Nature can be stubborn. It is not a social construct. It is fixed. The sooner we learn this verity, the better off our society will be.

So what should we call Chasten, if he is not Buttigieg’s husband? His partner. The two of them may not like it, but truth is not determined by what is popular. It is determined by what makes sense according to nature and nature’s God.


TOPICS: Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: buttgig; buttigieg; gaymarriage; homosexualagenda; homosexuality; lgtb; samesexmirage
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Noticed this article got a bit of attention as a result of the apostate clergy James Martin, https://twitter.com/JamesMartinSJ/status/1616870528794464257

So much so some wiseacres decided to take it upon themselves to add some "context" to Catholic league's article


1 posted on 01/21/2023 6:40:14 PM PST by Ennis85
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To: Ennis85

Don’t care about “legal”. They aren’t a married couple to anyone sane.


2 posted on 01/21/2023 6:43:17 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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So, it sounds like that the husband would be the penetrator, and the wife taking the organ into the body. Interesting. So he has a husband? Maybe he has a civil contract, but it is a long shot from being a HOLY MATRIMONY.


3 posted on 01/21/2023 6:48:25 PM PST by rovenstinez ( )
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To: Ennis85

I read a whole string of replies which pointed out that the Catholic Church has in its midst “pedophiles”, which is ironic, given that those are not pedophiles, those are predatory homosexuals.

Think about it. These mooks are defending faggotry by pointing to the disgusting perversions of other faggots.


4 posted on 01/21/2023 6:52:14 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: FreedomPoster

Amen!!!!


5 posted on 01/21/2023 6:54:04 PM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as. )
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To: FreedomPoster
Correct. A man cannot have a husband and a woman cannot have a wife.

I refuse to play their twisted game.

6 posted on 01/21/2023 6:54:54 PM PST by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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To: rovenstinez

Maybe he has a civil contract, but it is a long shot from being a HOLY MATRIMONY.
^^This^^
They can play all they want. Don’t matter to me. But the sacrament of Holy Matrimony is not available to same sex. It is God’s law.


7 posted on 01/21/2023 6:55:50 PM PST by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness )
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To: Ennis85
So what should we call Chasten, if he is not Buttigieg’s husband? His sex act partner.
8 posted on 01/21/2023 6:57:06 PM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: Ennis85

Kudos to the Catholic League.


9 posted on 01/21/2023 6:58:13 PM PST by nwrep
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To: chajin

Personally I tend to go with Room mate.


10 posted on 01/21/2023 7:06:20 PM PST by Ennis85
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To: Ennis85

Why was his “husband” in the HOSPITAL after they ADOPTED a baby? did they shove the baby up his ass and pull it out, requiring a hospital stay? I’d have thought those two could butt-chug a fire hydrant. But what do I know?


11 posted on 01/21/2023 7:07:28 PM PST by Captainpaintball (America needs a CONSERVATIVE dictator to return it to a Constitutional Republic. )
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To: Ennis85

It’s disgusting to even think about.


12 posted on 01/21/2023 7:27:51 PM PST by enumerated ( )
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To: FreedomPoster

He has nothing. He’s a POS. The End


13 posted on 01/21/2023 7:30:11 PM PST by albie
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To: Ennis85

Husband? More like topper...


14 posted on 01/21/2023 7:41:24 PM PST by null and void (LibWhacker ~ "Thank goodness for bureaucrats." (taken grossly out of context by nully...))
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To: Ennis85

not in the eyes off the church...


15 posted on 01/21/2023 7:41:24 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: FreedomPoster
Don’t care about “legal”.

They may be legally married... BUT, they are NOT lawfully married.

Legal is the undoing of lawful.

16 posted on 01/21/2023 7:41:48 PM PST by C210N (Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.)
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To: Ennis85

Does Peter Buttplug really have a husband?

NO.

Next question. That one was too easy!


17 posted on 01/21/2023 7:47:09 PM PST by Nervous Tick (Truth is not hate speech.)
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To: Ennis85

>> Personally I tend to go with Room mate.

How about “seat mates”. Sharing the same stool.


18 posted on 01/21/2023 7:48:52 PM PST by Nervous Tick (Truth is not hate speech.)
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To: Ennis85

Biblically no, but seems like he does have a sodomizer.


19 posted on 01/21/2023 7:59:41 PM PST by inchworm (al )
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To: Nervous Tick

You are a bad man.


20 posted on 01/21/2023 8:20:25 PM PST by null and void (LibWhacker ~ "Thank goodness for bureaucrats." (taken grossly out of context by nully...))
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