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Gay marriage will split the Catholic Church
The Spectator ^ | 05-23-2015 | Damian Thompson

Posted on 05/24/2015 11:05:02 AM PDT by NRx

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To: Chainmail

Oh, well gay Americans will flock to it for a couple of seasons, I suppose. I never understood this attachment to Ireland, myself. They’ve practically been banned from San Diego, btw, as the exchange students there behaved so badly from drink and drugs that the residents of that cosmopolitan place had to plead with the city fathers to do something.

I, also, don’t like greenies who get off the boat and tell you right to your face how much they find America a dump and how stupid Americans are. The only nice ones are Irish waitresses in the NYC Irish pubs.


41 posted on 05/24/2015 2:03:49 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: "I should like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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To: RginTN

Indeed. It’s the height of intellectual dishonesty to think that Jesus, those who heard him in person, the authors of the gospels and the other books of the Bible and the original audience those books were initially intended for would’ve thought that marriage was anything but. Of course, in Biblical times there was polygyny(1 man to 2 or more women) but even in that error it still involved the original idea of 1 man to 1 woman.


42 posted on 05/24/2015 2:19:30 PM PDT by ReformationFan
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To: MrEdd
Gay marriage will separate the sheep and goats.

We'll take the sheep and the goats... but we DON'T WANT THE IRISH!

43 posted on 05/24/2015 2:40:40 PM PDT by Rodamala
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To: ReformationFan

What liberals have laid on the poor shoulders of Jesus. Oh, how I wish he was here today (in person!) Of course, the libs would crucify him all over again.


44 posted on 05/24/2015 2:43:55 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: "I should like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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To: miss marmelstein

Well, while the gays are in Ireland, they aren’t here. Sort of a “win-win” for the rest of us.


45 posted on 05/24/2015 2:46:03 PM PDT by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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To: NRx

“Gay marriage will split the Catholic Church”

In fact NO IT WON’T.


46 posted on 05/24/2015 3:08:55 PM PDT by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job...)
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To: NRx

It is worth noting that it is the only nation that has VOTED to make same sex marriage legal.
Every other one had it passed by a liberal controlled legislature or issued by the courts.
And it took decades of political pressure, me-too-ism by the Irish legislature thinking it had to mimic fascist dictates by other nation states and lots of external funding to make it happen.


47 posted on 05/24/2015 3:27:45 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: miss marmelstein

Well, my mother had Irish ancestor, but he moved all the way to Wyoming. Nuff said


48 posted on 05/24/2015 3:36:11 PM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: NRx

Have you ever read “Holy Apostolic Catholic Church”?

That is not the Roman Catholic church it is Born Again Christians.


49 posted on 05/24/2015 3:57:08 PM PDT by The_Republic_Of_Maine (In an Oligarchy, the serfs don't count.)
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To: miss marmelstein

They’d also re-behead Jesus’ cousin John The Baptist if he came back too while they were at it for his being intolerant and “insensitive” of Herod Antipas’ marriage to his brother’s wife-

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3198697/posts


50 posted on 05/24/2015 4:16:20 PM PDT by ReformationFan
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To: NRx

Everything they touch dies.


51 posted on 05/24/2015 4:17:39 PM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag ( Anything FREELY-GIVEN by the government was TAKEN from someone else!)
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To: ReformationFan

LOL! True, true. All those New Testament guys would be intolerant, homophobic bigots, bless ‘em!


52 posted on 05/24/2015 4:34:22 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: "I should like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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To: Georgia Girl 2
Well the Presbyterians just voted gay marriage in here in the US.

The Presbyterian Church USA...(PCUSA)... They are not even Christian anymore ... The presbyterian denominations that hold to the Reformation teachings have not .. (OPC, PCA, EPC )

53 posted on 05/24/2015 4:50:06 PM PDT by RnMomof7
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To: miss marmelstein

With the way Western culture is going, I figure it will soon be a “homophobic and heterosexist” crime for parents to procreate naturally without using artificial insemination, IVF and surrogates. After all, it’s “not fair” that 2 males cannot create a new life nor can 2 females but 1 male and 1 female can.


54 posted on 05/24/2015 4:52:04 PM PDT by ReformationFan
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To: The_Republic_Of_Maine

You asked if I was referring to the Roman Catholic Church. I replied that the author most likely was. I don’t see what you are driving at or its relevance to the topic of this thread. This is not a discussion about ecclessiolo9gy.


55 posted on 05/24/2015 5:58:27 PM PDT by NRx (An unrepentant champion of the old order and determined foe of damnable Whiggery in all its forms.)
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To: ought-six

I think you’re right. The Church has been moving towards schism for awhile. It’s split along the lines of traditionalists and progressives. Acceptance of gay marriage will be what precipitates the Church into full schism. There will be a split. Not sure what will happen after that.


56 posted on 05/24/2015 6:27:16 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: virgil

Just curious, do any of the Sedevacantists support redefining marriage as anything other than 1 man to 1 woman?

I figure they would all support the conservative/traditionalist side of this issue but nowadays one never knows.


57 posted on 05/24/2015 6:38:53 PM PDT by ReformationFan
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To: NRx

If you don’t want to get inot a discussion on words, doen’t use words inour psot. I was looking for a definition of catholic, I assumed the writer was referring to rc’s, but was not sure.

No ecclessiolo9gy, what ever a ecclessiolo 9gy is.


58 posted on 05/24/2015 6:57:44 PM PDT by The_Republic_Of_Maine (In an Oligarchy, the serfs don't count.)
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To: ReformationFan

I don’t know for sure. Don’t know much about this movement. I would think they do not support redefining marriage. Such an acceptance by the Church could swell their ranks.


59 posted on 05/24/2015 7:02:43 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: NRx
I love how upper class Brits assume the whole world agrees with them.

uh, Asia, Africa, South America, red state USA don't agree. IF the church splits it will be because tho pope is siding with the elites who have struggled to take over the church to hijack it to support the one world order and their pseudo religion.

what is scary is that this was predicted back in the 1970s by David Wilkerson in the vision...

60 posted on 05/25/2015 1:49:02 AM PDT by LadyDoc (liberals only love politically correct poor people)
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