Gay marriage will separate the sheep and goats.
Homosexual marriage will cause schisms in other religious denominations as well.
By this time next month, we may well have seen the U.S. Supreme Court impose homosexual marriage nationwide.
If that happens, the goal posts will then have been moved.
The vast majority of mainstream religious institutions do not allow for homosexual marriage, or homosexual commitment ceremonies, or recognize homosexuality in a positive way. On the other hand, many religions regard homosexaulity as sinful or worse.
The next battle over homosexual marriage could happen within churches. Some more liberal churches may want to recognize same sex marriage, and break away from denominations which don’t allow it. Other denominations may decide to allow it, but see some more conservative member churches split with them over the issue.
And, in the background, there’s always the possibility that the gay activists, who brought us to the point we are at now, with the numerous lawsuits over marriage, will start suing churches which don’t perform homosexual marriage.
If the Supreme Court imposes homosexual marriage on the entire country ,this will not be the end of the debate over homosexual marriage. Instead, it will just have moved the goal posts on the issue.
The Catholic Church has always been open to being split as are the protestant denominations, it calls to question for me what foundation are they really built upon.
The pedophile scandal was mainly caused by homosexuals in the church.
Christian morals under attack by those anti-Christians who support homosexuals which consist of only 1% of the population, not 10 or 20% as claimed.
By Catholic, can I assume you are referring to Roman Catholics?
The misguided Catholic Church is mixing the good news of Jesus with the empty traditions of men, imo, which Jesus warned against in Mark 7:7-13.
This whole article starts off with a very misleading sentence. The practice of Catholicism has been fading in Ireland for generations. I was surprised to see an interview with an Irish priest a few years ago in which he said many of the churches in Ireland are empty, and that weekly Mass attendance is probably more prevalent in the U.S. than in Ireland.
Well the Presbyterians just voted gay marriage in here in the US.
Remember in Ireland it was not the Catholic Church that voted in gay marriage it was the people.
The Church has been headed toward a serious schism for quite some time now. Hardcore leftists now dominate Church administration.
Ireland will do without my visits from here on.
This is a good thing. The wolves in the church are outed by openly supporting this sin.
Why are the Irish absolutely giddy in their celebration of state sanctioned homo-sexual marriages? It’s not like the repeal of prohibition or a declaration of independence that most people go gaga over. I am scratching my head over the gushing.
I have to wonder if really will be the last Pope?
Not likely. People who accept homosexuality and its hazards have already left Christianity.
A reminder to people that the Catholic Church can often be quite ethnic in its approach.
Thanks to American dollars.......
“Gay marriage will split the Catholic Church”
In fact NO IT WON’T.
It is worth noting that it is the only nation that has VOTED to make same sex marriage legal.
Every other one had it passed by a liberal controlled legislature or issued by the courts.
And it took decades of political pressure, me-too-ism by the Irish legislature thinking it had to mimic fascist dictates by other nation states and lots of external funding to make it happen.
Everything they touch dies.