Doug, you've really lost it.God gave us the sacrament of marriage, but now Doug would like to do away with it so he can placate same-sex marriage advocates.
Speaking to CNSNews.com, Pepperdine University law professor Doug Kmiec said that although his solution to disputes over the definition of marriage might be “awkward,” it would “untie the state from this problem” by creating a new terminology that would apply to everyone, homosexual or not. “Call it a ‘civil license’,” he said.
“The net effect of that, would be to turn over--quite appropriately, it seems to me, the concept of marriage to churches and a church understanding,” he said.
Kmiec said that a motive for California’s Proposition 8, which restored the definition of marriage to being between a man and a woman, was religious believers’ “genuine concern” that the California ruling imposing homosexual “marriage” was not addressing religious freedom issues. No it doesn't. We should have the "religious freedom" to preserve marriage.
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Great article!!! Marriage must be open to procreation. Homosexuals are not able to reproduce naturally with one another, so therefore they cannot be open to procreation. Man and woman allow for the possibility and have an openness to reproduce or procreate naturally and that is what constitutes marriage.
Wow. Way to counter reasonable arguments with blanket assertions! "Defend marriage ra ra ra!"
Last time I checked, the Church regarded marriage as a religious institution in which the government has no place. Marriage is a sacrament: the state has power neither to grant to it nor take from it any legitimacy whatsoever. To place such an emphasis on the pretensions of the state towards having such power is to profane marriage in a manner far more threatening than would the mere recognition of other unions under the law (which could, of course, have no effect whatsoever on who the Church imparted the sacrament to).
It is people such as yourself who are the true threat to marriage and to the Church. You have sold out, reduced the Holy and the Sacred to the social function of contingent institutions and, indeed, in such a way as to claim those institutions (governments, political bodies) are vessels of absolute Truth. This is both a heresy against the Church and a blasphemy against God.
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