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To: NotchJohnson

The Catholic church is in the middle of things in this case, if not the cause. But it can act to be part of the solution.

To start with, the church must realize that if a hundred people call themselves Catholic, but only 50 of them are truly Catholic, the church cannot claim a hundred. The other 50 might someday seek redemption, but until they do, they are not an asset to the church, but dead weight.

There is no pride in numbers if half the number are forfeit.

For this reason, the church must divine some means to let those who are not Catholic, know that they are not Catholic, and that they should go their separate way from the church, that they neither call themselves Catholic, think of themselves as Catholics, nor burden the church and the faithful with their presence.

At the same time, the church must reclaim its sacraments as being part of its faith, not a function of government.

Imagine if the government decreed that Baptism was not Baptism unless it was done under government auspices? That children had to have a government issued certificate of Baptism, or the government would not recognize them as having been Baptized?

It sounds ludicrous, but for government to authorize marriage is just as ludicrous. So how does the church (and other religions) take back marriage? They do so by doing so.

The Catholic church could join with other orthodox churches and those churches willing to abide by mutual rules, to only accept marriages that are sacramental in character.

And these rules would be strict: that none of the churches in the agreement would recognize marriages performed outside of the agreement. The state would still recognize them, and the people involved might say they were married, but in the eyes of the churches involved, they would not be married, nor would they be said to be married, nor called husband and wife, Mr. and Mrs.

Likewise the churches would lay claim to divorce, that if allowed in that faith, it was a religious function and not a creature of the state, as it was a conclusion to a religious sacrament, not a civil law dispute.

Thus if the state wanted to say that a man and a goat could be married, that is for the state to say; but that does not make them so in the eyes of all of these churches. That this joining is not recognized nor respected, and the people involved are in no way righteous or respectable.


10 posted on 11/11/2012 6:27:48 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy (DIY Bumper Sticker: "THREE TIMES,/ DEMOCRATS/ REJECTED GOD")
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11 posted on 11/11/2012 6:28:59 AM PST by patriot08
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