The drive for the amendment [banning same sex marriage] was sparked in December when the Slovakian conference of Catholic bishops issued a pastoral letter decrying same-sex marriage as “”sodomitic mockery” and gender equality as part of “the culture of death.”
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I see the Catholic Church is continuing its tradition of arguing itself into absolecence while acting like it's still a relevant authority, all the while thinking it's the moral standard by which everyone must live by, and simultaniously being a collection of monstrous dickbags.
This can't go well for them for long, can it?
Didn't the Pope say homosexuality was sort-of-ok? Or did he recant that already? I mean, again. And shouldn't you members of the hatierarchy, I mean, hierarchy, obey him? Cause he's the representative of your imaginary tyrant or something? Isn't going against what the Pope says a big sin or something?
EDIT: @Thomas
Dude, it's the Catholic Church. They haven't questioned anything else, why are you expecting them to start now?
This is fairly normal stuff in the eastern half of Europe. I've seen pretty much the same language from Orthodox clerics in Serbia and from the Lutheran Church in Latvia. Trouble is, in many countries in the region the church is regarded as the guardian of national identity and values. The result, most obvious in Russia, is an alliance between a backward, corrupt church and a morally bankrupt ruler.
Your church is child sodomitic mockery and especially in Ireland, the culture of death.
@JBento:
He didn't say it was OK, he said the church having hysterical seizures over it is not OK because it makes his church look like a bunch of fundies.
So, non-vaginal sex is a way to say "Nyah nyah! Neener neener! You are a poopy-head"?
@JBento
What I think Pope Francis was saying was that, while homosexuality is still considered a "sin", obsessing over it was stupid. He preferred that the church would focus on important stuff like fighting poverty, fighting income inequality, promoting kindness & charity and basically being...y'know...like Jesus.
He's still backwards in regards to sex & LGBTs but he better priorities. He's even trying to address the more corrupt, greedy members of his hierarchy & Mob influences.
He's definitely NOT perfect but he seems okay in some areas.
And yet, by the gender equality of Sir Elton John & David Furnish, they brought forth the new lives of Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John & Elijah Joseph Daniel Furnish-John.
So just by that one example, Your entire argument being invalid is the least of your problems. It's dead .
And completely exterminated by the culture of the New Normal: the Dominant Paradigm. Zachary & Elijah are alive because of such, so enjoy your paradox, Bishies. >:D
FINNALY, someone from my country is getting qouted, and it´s on friday the 13th to boot! (loud cheers)
On a serious note, these guys should just fuck off and die already. No one fucking needs them here.
@1674147
I really, really hope so. I´ve been watching this insanity from the beginning and I really hope they do something bout this (same-sex marriage ban), if only to see our government get smacked like bitches.
@Hasan Prishtina
I wouldn´t exactly say there is an alliance between church and ruler. The only reason this shit went throught is because currently ruling social democrat party needed to secure a coalition with christian democrats. The thing is, christian democrats have pathetic number of votes and could never hope to push this throught on their own. But thankfully, given the problems this is starting to cause them, they will probably call this shit off the moment it becomes serious.
@ HEIL SATAN
Apologies, but looking back on my post I could have been a bit clearer as to what I meant in my last sentence. I meant that the result of viewing the church as the guardian of national identity and morality was the church-state alliance that exists in Russia, not that one exists elsewhere, though a few years ago you could have made that case in Serbia.
Don't like gay marriage; don't get into one. Let other people govern their lives their way.
How can equality and tolerance be the culture of death? It's not the equality people who's beating up straight people and tying them to fences to die alone.
Re. "sodomitic": 'Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.' Ezekiel 16:49
It's not our fault you men die (despite your stupid myth) so stop blaming us for it!
Are these bishops claiming that women not being pregnant for the entirety of their fertile lives is a bad thing? Stupid question - of course they are!
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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