yes... the word marriage has been defiledGood article.
I think it is time that the good Cardinal put up or shut up and start excommunicating the many phony Catholics that infest the beltway.
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I don't know, but I do know the word "fiance" seems about beyond redemption.
Yes, we should talk about holy matrimony, or unity covenants, or some other term which means a man and a woman coming together in such a union.
Since the meaning of marriage has now been changed, this seems like a good idea.
Ya, the homosexual community changed the definition of gay. Nobody uses the dictionary definition of gay anymore. Nowadays, gay means only homosexual. It just can’t be used to mean anything else anymore.
In the case of marriage, liberals will tell us it’s bigoted if we assume a married woman is married to a man. So perhaps it is time to use a term which by definition will be an opposite sex union, not a same sex union.
Better to have no state involvement in the area of marriage.
I like the thought process here....
Let it go, please let it go! The internet, the TV and the talk radio shows are all full of this DOMA crap. I’m tired of watching this squirrel. We have much more important political issues to pay attention to. The homosexuals can go marry chickens for all I care.
If you have a church ceremony, you are morally married.
Dispense with the piece of paper, and the feral government has no further say.
IMO, good idea. Think I’ll start using that phraseology. Give them “marriage.” Let’s see how blasphemous the Left can become. After ringing the National Cathedral bells yesterday I’m curious...
The Church should - stop filling in and submitting documents to the state and then change the requirements for a person to receive Holy Matrimony in a Church.
People can then go and to a registry office to have the marriage sanctioned/recognized by the state if that is what they want.
They do this in places like Singapore. First they will do the legal wedding and then the Church service later.
Firstly though the Pope needs to make it clear to all clergy that anyone performing a service or “wedding” for homos will be forcibly excommunicated i.e. kicked out of the church - their living accommodation the full works. Not this “has “automatically excommunicated themselves but nothing is ever done rubbish”.
Mel
I think giving up a perfectly good word because judges, pols, or the voting public have such a hard time defining it is foolish. I mean we didn’t change the word because of civil divorce and remarriage. I don’t think we should let the people that have the problem make us change. No one suggests that we quit using the word priest because some wackadoos think they can be ‘women priests.’
If you want a concrete way to demonstrate the difference between what the Church knows marriage to be and the state, stopping acting as the state’s representatives for the civil side might be the way to go. Explain why the change is being made, show everyone that yes, it is a big deal. It’s not like the Church looks at the civil recognition as the determining factor to decide if someone is married or not anyhow if you consider civil divorce and remarriage.
Freegards
yes... the word marriage has been defiledDid it twice, can't recommend it.
What about calling it hetero-marriage (vs homo-marriage)? As in, My hetero-marriage is a Sacrament of Holy Matrimony.
I second that but, the words husband and wife are also being redefined.
Joe + Joe = husband and husband
What baffles me is the argument. 87 congress members and a president are racist because sodomizers have rights ?
The Chief Justice can set the rule of the the arguments of merit to the case before the court. It’s done every day it’s known as “the judge won’t allow”. Because the administration now favors “gay marriage” I wouldn’t expect what could be called a healthy defence from them. Sodomy wasn’t the issue . The issue was protecting the integrity and intention of a basic unit of society through a mechanisim known as marriage to encourage familys.
What should we expect from a political party which itself has gone through a marriage with one world socialist radicals known to many as communists who can’t even use the word God. They’ve hyphenated into Demo-Coms.
No just because a radical bunch have taken over and edicts changes in customs and values to conform to their idology should we set back and accept it. Time to stand up and be counted.
This is a good idea. We Christians need to talk about Christian marriage. And those bakers and florists who are now getting sued for not providing for “gay weddings” need to make clear they only provide services for “Holy Matrimonies.”
Catholic ping!