I brought it up because Orthodoxy is much like Catholicism without a Pope.
The marriages I referred to were from divorces due to adultery and the adulterer went on to marry the one they had the affair with.
On the other hand, shouldn’t this be between God and Kennedy or the people I described above? I think when we get into the man made doctrines of denominations, something gets lost. I am sure Protestants will say that what the Bible says is the ultimate answer.
I do not want to start a firestorm as I am just bringing this up for simple debate. I do not want anyone to be offended.
I’ll try once more. Kennedy is a public figure. His actions as a legislator have effects on many other people. He made public what the bishop wrote to him privately. Do you get it? KENNEDY MADE PUBLIC WHAT THE BISHOP WROTE TO HIM PRIVATELY.
Why? Because Patrick Kennedy is playing political games. He wants to portray himself as a poo’ widdle victim martyr of the BIG BAD MEANIE BISHOP so that he can be free to legislate immorally.
Abortion is a public issue. It is not a denominational issue. It is not even a purely religious issue. Either the unborn child is an innocent human individual or it is not. If it is, then it is immoral to kill it. If it is not, who cares?
This issue is decided by reason, medicine, universal principles of justice (taking innocent human life is always wrong). The Catholic Church opposes abortion not out of some goofy private religious sentiment but out of universal principles of justice. Debates over what is right and wrong are part of public life. Kennedy has taken a position on this issue that is wrong by universal principles of justice. Sadly, too many people who should know better give him a pass. He and his Democrap buddies for 25 years have claimed that it’s just a private matter between them and God.
When his bishop, to whom he is subject spiritually speaking, admonishes him about his error in universal principles of justice, he responds with “BIG BAD MEANIE BISHOP GET YOUR GRUBBY HANDS OFF OF ME. I’m personally opposed but publically in favor of killing babies. Leave me alone or else I’ll denounce you as religion interfering in public life.”
And you fall for it.