Posted on 05/16/2008 1:49:32 PM PDT by NYer
.- One day after California overturned a ban on same-sex marriage, the Holy Father has firmly stated that only marriage between a man and a woman is moral.
Yesterday, California’s Supreme Court came to a 4-3 decision overturning the state’s law preventing homosexuals from being recognized as married.
While the Pope did not directly mention the ruling in California in his address to the Forum of Family Associations and the European Federation of Catholic Family Associations, Benedict XVI stressed the importance of the traditional family for the good of society.
"The union of love, based on matrimony between a man and a woman, which makes up the family, represents a good for all society that can not be substituted by, confused with, or compared to other types of unions," he said.
He continued by speaking of the rights of the traditional family, "founded on matrimony between a man and a woman, the natural cradle of human life." Mention of the need to defend the family is not uncharacteristic for Pope Benedict, but his statement takes on particular relevance following the California ruling.
In the same address, the Pope emphasized the family’s importance by citing John Paul II, "the Pope of the family," who said that "the future of humanity passes by way of the family.”
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.
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Unfortunetly he’s not Pope of California (that would be Nicholsen I). Ellen will marry her foxy actress friend, people will fight it, but Sodom has another run in the world.
They don’t care in the Proplrs Republic of Kalifornia where being queer is fashionable - if not preferred.
How long until folks call for his arrest? Who would have thought that stating something that is just common sense, for all religions, would ever become controversial
Proplrs = People’s. LOL. I swear I haven’t had a thing to drink - yet.
The Pope’s response to the Left Coast.
I don’t know if Villaraigosa (the mayor of LA who said he’s eager to “marry” gays) even goes to Mass, but if he does, I assume this means that he’s been warned. It will be interesting to see if Cdl Roger Dodger does anything about this or not.
The gays in Rome have already been calling for his arrest. Oh, that or his death.
In a very few years Catholics churches will be picketed, Catholics’ with businesses boycotted, and churches denied buidling permits because of their “hate”.
It’s coming, get ready.
We started in the catacombs.
We can go back to the catacombs.
I hadn't heard that moniker before but it makes me think of Tommy Lasorda's (now Joe Torre's) blue headgear with a bill in place of the scarlet skullcap.
Thanks for the ping to this article/thread. I think this answers "ElPatriota" sufficiently. And it's a quicker turn-around than I expected from the Vatican bureaucracy.
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gosh, the brilliant legal origami from the CA Supremes didn’t convince him to overthrow 5800 years of civilization and endorse a gender-free society where we are all just homo sapiens who are interchangable and free of identity beyond the tattoos we choose to undergo?
I guess I should be surprised considering what a rational argument that sounds like on MSNBC......
Absolutely. The lights of perverted science may improve on Diocletian’s gridiron, but Christ will be with us. Amen +
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