It's over - we won

[hedgehog]

Last Sunday, the Bishop stuck a page and a half letter in the bulletin telling us all how wrong it is for New York to legalize gay marriage.

Think about that. The Bishop sent a letter to the Catholics faithful enough to be attending Mass on a hot July Sunday.

It took him a page and a half (single spaced) to explain what's wrong with gay marriage.

20 years ago, the people reading that letter hadn't even heard of gay marriage.

Now it takes him a page and a half to explain how evil it is.

He's lost the laity and he ain't getting them back.

The mopping up operations are going to take a while, and we may lose a few skirmishes here or there, but we've won the war.


Look for a Catholic Church to be holding gay weddings within a few years. It won't be the Roman Catholic Church, but it will be a catholic Church!

[Smarmie Doofus]

1. I agree. New York was the clincher.

No one's even talking about rolling it back here. No one serious, anyway.

The rest of the country will follow suit.

In time.

[RKP5637]

2. Yea!!! n/t

[Booster]

3. I'm very, very proud of New York & just wish CA would follow.

[Not Me]

4. Actually, I am being married in a Catholic (not RC) church

in upstate NY in October. And by a woman priest.
There was a rather large RC congregation that could not wait for Rome to get its act together so weleft the RC church in 1998 and formed a new one, aligned with the Old Catholic Church...which has "authenticity" back to St. Peter, so they can ordain priests. And they don't discriminate by gender.

[hedgehog]

5. One of my daughters is studying to be ordained. She told her

sister she's looking forward to officiating at her wedding once she finds the love of her life.

[hedgehog]

6. LAst night I was thinking over all the bad things that are still happening out there.

I don't mean to trivialize the pain so many still face. James Byrd, Jr. and Emmett Till were both lynched, but they lived in different worlds. It is getting better.