[wideawake]

There was no insult at all intended.

You call all your best friends "pharasitical."

The fact that you saw one tells me that you're more than a little uncomfortable defending your position.

I'm quite comfortable defending the Church's teaching on marriage - which is why I took the time on this thread to explain it in detail - details which you have ignored in order to make emotional arguments.

You may be right as far as "The Law" is concerned but you are wrong where simple human decency and charity are concerned.

And you dodge once more.

I ask again: is it decent and charitable to give an eyeless man a driver's license?

The law exists for our benefit - disobeying it is indecent and uncharitable, not the other way around.

[pgkdan]

ask again: is it decent and charitable to give an eyeless man a driver's license?

You are building a straw man here that is in no way analogous to the situation at hand.

The law exists for our benefit

Sorry but I simply can not see where this aspect of the law provides a benefit to anybody. The bishop did a good job as a Canon Lawyer but an abyssmally bad job as a pastor.

disobeying it is indecent and uncharitable, not the other way around.

Are you seriously saying that allowing a paraplegic man and his fiance to marry would be indecent and uncharitable? And you wonder why I would compare that attitude to the Pharisees?