[NYer]

"Homosexual unions are totally lacking in the biological and anthropological elements of marriage and family which would be the basis, on the level of reason, for granting them legal recognition. Such unions are not able to contribute in a proper way to the procreation and survival of the human race. The possibility of using recently discovered methods of artificial reproduction, beyond involving a grave lack of respect for human dignity,(15) does nothing to alter this inadequacy."
CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING PROPOSALS TO GIVE LEGAL RECOGNITION TO UNIONS BETWEEN HOMOSEXUAL PERSONS

[NYer]

Catholic Ping - please freepmail me if you want on/off this list

[NYer]

Ping!

[rageaholic]

Homosexual rights activists always claim they want "equal" rights. When in fact they are asking for extra rights. Gay marriage is not an equal right, its an extra right. Extra rights leads to a totally permissive, degraded sick society.

[wideawake]

Thank you, Cardinal Trujillo, for speaking the divine truth.

Sodomy is an abomination not worthy of human beings and pretending that sodomy can be a basis for holy matrimony is indeed a dehumanization.

[Mo1]

In many countries the push for same-sex "marriage" has caused confusion among Catholics who are often told that matters of justice and human rights are at stake.

Ummm ... What human rights are at stake???

The gays can do whatever they want and have what ever sex they choose in the privacy of their homes

No one can stop them .. but I'm also not going to give them my blessings ..

[EdReform]

BTTT

What We Can Do To Help Defeat the "Gay" Agenda

Homosexual Agenda: Categorical Index of Links (Version 1.1)

Myth and Reality about Homosexuality--Sexual Orientation Section, Guide to Family Issues"

[EdReform]

Ping

[tjwmason]

Cardinal Trujillo is a great man, he was the subject of a vicious attack by the B.B.C. when he questioned the efficacy of condom use to counter the spread of AIDS. All of this done under the pretence of 'journalistic integrity', yet he was still willing to be interviewed, and spoke the truth clearly and directly.

[Varda]

" Cardinal Trujillo said that the family is founded upon marriage, which is not a product of European cultural bias, but rather a standard for all human societies"

Thank you Cardinal Trujillo. The fact is marriage is not a religious institution but a fundamental human civil institution. It is ordered to the perpetuation of society. We owe it to society as a matter of justice to protect it. Homosexual behavior is destructive. We owe our neighbors both by the demands of justice and the requirements of charity not to stand by and endorse their destruction.

[EdReform]

Ping

[ArGee]

"Recognition of 'de facto' unions," he said, "which are a legal fiction, proposing same-sex unions as an alternative to marriage, and inventing new, unacceptable notions of marriage to the point of accepting the adoption of children, are grave signs of dehumanization."

Or, as C.S. Lewis put it, the abolition of man.

Shalom.

[murphE]

Let's review why homosexual 'marriage' is even and issue, we have lost sight of the purpose of marriage. The primary purpose of marriage is the PROCREATION OF CHILDREN and their subsequent education. Love and mutual support between spouses is a secondary good of marriage intended to help accomplish the first.</P>

I will now get down from the soapbox.

[Askel5]

Ruh roh ...

Looks like reserving the word "marriage" for contracepting heteros whose marriages are based on the same premise as homosexuals (children as OPTION of marriage) may not be enough.

Does Bush realize what "civil unions" means every time he supports marriage as hetero but reserves the right of states to confect "civil unions" and privileges attaching thereto as states see fit?