DignityUSA wants us to believe that blessing men that swap semen dignifies their relationship.
Posted on 03/18/2005 2:42:17 AM PST by Robert Drobot
Washington, DC – The leadership of DignityUSA strongly disagrees with the Pope's recent statement in his “State of the World Message” where he said same sex marriage promotes a “direct challenge to the family”
“It is clear that the Pope has a very myopic understanding of family”, stated Matthew Gallagher, Executive Director of DignityUSA. “The Pope needs to be open to the lived experience of countless couples as many people of faith and society in general move toward understanding 'family' in a broader sense.
“Family is more than one male, one female and their biological children. The modern world has learned to adapt and acknowledge a larger interpretation of the word 'family'”, continued Gallagher.
DignityUSA – the nation's foremost organization of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Catholics – knows 'family' as a loving, intimate relationship between two consenting adults with that love coming from God for as the Gospel of John tells us "God is Love". Gender is not the determining factor for family; love is.
The Pope's limited concept of 'family' seems based solely on a centuries' old view as the contractual state of affairs between individuals to protect property rights and on ignorance of all medical and psychological knowledge about the goodness of children in same-gender households.
“No one has been able to show how the thousands of same-gender couples who have publicly proclaimed their love and commitment in Massachusetts, New York, California and Oregon – as well as in many other countries – have done damage to the institution of marriage. In fact, these expressions of love can only make this institution stronger” Gallagher concluded.
The leadership of DignityUSA is calling on the Pope to focus his attention on celebrating when God's children proclaim God's love in committed relationships instead of using his power to hurt them. DignityUSA also is calling on the Pope to bless these same-gender families.
"Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination....Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations....For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people. Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the LORD your God. - Lev 18:22-30
In his 1907 Encyclical, "Lamentabili Sane, The Syllabus of Errors" Pope Saint Pius X wrote, The Catholic Church has always, clearly and infallibly, taught that the Holy Scriptures are historical accounts and has condemned the proposition that they are mere theological reflections."
Further, in his 1965 Encyclical, "Dei Verbum", Pope Paul VI instructed the Apostolic See, "“Holy Mother Church has firmly and with absolute constancy held, and continues to hold, that the four Gospels just named, whose historical character the Church unhesitatingly asserts, faithfully hand on what Jesus Christ, while living among men, really did and taught for their eternal salvation until the day He was taken up into heaven (see Acts 1:1).”
No matter the smoke and mirrors Matthew Gallagher may attempt to erect to defend sin, both the Holy Word of God, and Sacred Dogma of the Roman Catholic Church referenced above emphatically stipulate to a 'family' as one man, one woman and their offspring.
The Bible and Sacred Dogma of the Roman Catholic Church forbid the indulgence in sodomite, lesbian, bisexual and transgender sexual practices. They are in the eyes of God Almighty, "....an abomination....".
IMO, if one were inclined toward sexual practices forbidden by God, their status as a Roman Catholic would require their abstention from such practices.
We are aware that certain few American bishops have properly declared Holy Communion is forbidden to politicians who vote for enabling legislation for the murder children in the womb, but we have yet to hear a peep from the Vatican or our own infamous American Conference of Bishops about forbidding deviant sex practitioners from receiving the Body of Our Lord and Savior. Certainly, a decree of that order would separate priests from holy priests.
Should you be interested in learning if there's a DignityUSA chapter in your diocese, I offer you the following link : Local Chapters
Ping.
And here all you hetero couples thought you were entering into a covenant relationship that included Jesus Christ.
Thus sayeth the "modern" world: it's a contract.
A question "modern" guy, by whose authority do you speak?
Perhaps "modern" guy should inform the One who spoke these words that He needs to become more "modern":
"Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator 'made them male and female' and said, 'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'?
So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, no human being must separate."
DignityUSA wants us to believe that blessing men that swap semen dignifies their relationship.
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