[will of the people]

“The reason it matters is the same reasoning why the Church does not permit divorce or contraception — the Anglicans were the first to permit divorce and slowly but surely it ended up with Gene Robinson.”

Really?
Pointing to a homosexual priest/bishop in another church is the defense for Roman Catholicism’s belief in Mary’s ever virginity?!

Really?
The reason it matters is so the priesthood and bishopric remain vessels of purity and holiness.

Really?
I mean- whether or not Mary was ever virgin, we know for sure some priests aren’t.

Whether Mary ever had sex with a male, we know that some priests did (do).

I’m having trouble typing through fits of apoplectic laughter.

Will

[Cronos]

will, your post is disingenuous. What did I say "slowly but surely it ended up" --> I use the Anglican example as a learning point for us all. namely it's easy to take the first step away from orthodoxy, which is what the Anglicans did by allowing divorce and contraception

What does it matter so much, these strongly devout and still very Christian people would have said

But the one little step, moves to another and another and finally it is a precipitous cliff.

[Cronos]

The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith of the Catholic Church wrote in 2003"The Church's teaching on marriage and on the complementarity of the sexes reiterates a truth that is evident to right reason and recognized as such by all the major cultures of the world. Marriage is not just any relationship between human beings. It was established by the Creator with its own nature, essential properties and purpose.

"No ideology can erase from the human spirit the certainty that marriage exists solely between a man and a woman, who by mutual personal gift, proper and exclusive to themselves, tend toward the communion of their persons. In this way, they mutually perfect each other, in order to cooperate with God in the procreation and upbringing of new human lives."

, When divorce is allowed, it is just the first little step to gay marriage as we see.