Dear Bryher1,
There's a difference between intending to do something, and recognizing that one may very well wind up doing it, anyway.
Believe me when I tell you, I do not INTEND at the beginning of Thanksgiving dinner to eat more food than I ought. Nonetheless, most years, I do, and I recognize that it is likely that this coming Thanksgiving, I may very well do it again.
However, I don't intend it. Proof of this is that there have been years when my intellect has actually won the battle with my stomach, and I've actually eaten a relatively modest amount of food at Thanksgiving.
However, there is clear intent on the part of the two homosexuals to sin again. It isn't that it is their expectation that they may very well fall back into sin, but rather, they don't even recognize anymore that their sin is a sin.
Furthermore, their sin is not a private one. It is not that they practice evil quietly, at least with the tribute of hypocrisy that vice pays to virtue. No, they insist, through baptizing their child, not only is their sin not a sin, and not only that they personally reject the sinfulness of their sin, but also, that the entire Church must approve of their sin, as well. Because, in that they say they will reject evil, even as they present themselves as a "married couple," the rest of us who confirm their actions (and the community does confirm the actions of those baptizing, through witnesses), they create the inference that we accept their sin.
Thus, they give scandal on top of all else.
The bottom line is that these people don't even agree with the basic moral teaching of the Church. How can they, in good faith, participate in the baptism of a child where they must commit to the moral teaching of the Church?
sitetest
Very well said. The only burr under my saddle is that plenty of heterosexual people don't agree with the basic moral teaching of the Church (i.e. John Kerry, Ted Kennedy, Nancy Pelosi, etc.) and some here seem to be raising homosexuality to a higher level sin than murder.
Its organizations like this (Catholic Church of Canada) that give conservatives a bad name