(Gay Marriage Op-Ed): What A Useful Word 'Taboo' Is!

insidecatholic.com ^ | 12/17/08 | Mark P. Shea

[Publius804]

What A Useful Word 'Taboo' Is!

The Catholic faith has always taught that sexual relations between two consenting married heterosexual adult human beings not already related by blood are not just good but sacramental.

We got rid of the Catholic faith and assumed that would continue as the norm. Then racism got into it, and nutty racists developed a nutty theory about "miscegenation" that was completely alien to the Christian revelation. In the Tradition, you find concern about only one thing: religious intermarriage. And even that, while discouraged, is not forbidden. Indeed, Paul tells the Corinthians that a believing wife can sanctify her spouse and vice versa. He doesn't tell the believer to dump the unbeliever. And he has no theory at all that believers of different ethnicities (a commonplace in the ancient Mediterranean world) must not swap chromosomes lest they sully some pure breed. It took the 19th century to come up with the claptrap of "scientific racism."

Out of that came some screwy laws against interracial marriage that owe everything to racism and nothing to Christian revelation. (Though, of course, enterprising Southern Baptists and others were able to comb through the Old Testament to find verses that appeared to justify American chattel slavery. That's the great thing about the Bible apart from the Magisterium: You can use to support any crazy idea you like!)

Those laws were rightly struck down, but not on the basis of revelation. Instead, they were struck down on the notion that consent between individuals is the sole criterion of what is good, which is a wildly dangerous idea. What this idea presumed was that societal norms would always be more or less Christian...

[onedoug]

Judeo-Christian values over blood.

[xzins]

Southerners in general came up with a racial Christianity....it wasn’t confined to baptists. Incidentally, most blacks in America are baptist.

BTW, I’m not a baptist.

[presidio9]

A couple of years ago in Germany, ass pirate B decided to cook and eat ass pirate A, with ass pirate A's consent. Part of the act took place while ass pirate A was still conscious. Ass pirate B readily confessed to his crime. Here is the best part: German courts and pundits struggled with whether ass pirate B actually did anything wrong. After all, what occured was between two conscenting adults. The Germans are especially freaky, but this is definitely what we have to look forward to in our own society.

[BoneHead]

That's just gross!!

And you need to cite your source.

Regards
Bonehead