Reply #75: The catholic church [View All]

[Nicholas_J]

DOes not recognize any marriage outside of the church as a VALID, marriage, but they are recognided by the catholic church as LEGAL marriages. There is a distinct differnce in the Catholic Church but a VAlaid marriage has to do with the sacremental nature of marriage, and not legal status. A gay can be catholic, stay catholic, engaging in gay sex is comnsidered sinful, and the church wil not recognize gay marriage, but you can be gay, not engage in gay sex, and be considered a good catholic. The churches stance on gay sex is not related to the fact that it is gay sex, but that it is sex outside of marriage, and the purpose of sex withing marriage is procreation, so gay sex as a sin has the same status as sex outisideof marriage, and sex without the possibility of procration (contraception) You can be gay, engage in gay sex, go to confession, unburden your soul, nad be granted absolution.

Gays have a problem with that as they do not beleive what they are doing is sinful. I was eraised Catholic, have a gay sister, And half a dozen gay relatives of one degree of co-sanguinity or other. I dont give a damned, the family parish doesnt give a damned, and certainly my gay uncle who is a priest doesnt give a damned, I dont ask about his sex life, he doesnt ask about mine, and we get along fine.

A lot do not like the church, but many become priests. AND many stay in the church and deal with their own contradicions the own way.

Most of the anti-catholic idiots are simply liberal who are really bigots. Others like Howard Dean, show their bigotry in subtle ways, by denying methodone clinics because of what happened in neighborhoods in which they are placed, and Vermont becoming a magnet for heroin addicts, though he could never come up with any damnmed good medical reasons, as there were none. This was Dean, who did his internship in the South Bronx because he didnt graduate high enough in his medical school class to get an intership at Columbia Presbyterian, and then moved to lily white Vermont, and passed laws that said NOT IN MY LILY WHITE BACK YARD. That is another kind of bigot. The one raised in New York and moves to Vermont or Idaho.