Catholic Church: ‘We recognise that gay couples make loving parents..."

[Fearless]

...but they must be banned from marriage’

The Catholic Church in England and Wales has made a surprising acknowledgement that same-sex couples make good parents. The statement is included within a document submitted to MPs and Peers urging them vote against same-sex marriage.

The document says: “We recognise that many same sex couples raise children in loving and caring homes. Nevertheless, marriage has an identity that at its core is distinct from any other legally recognised relationship, no matter how much love or commitment may be involved in these other relationships.

“Marriage has, over the centuries, been the enduring public recognition of this commitment to provide a stable institution for the care and protection of children, and it has rightly been recognised as unique and worthy of legal protection for this reason.

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2013/01/29/catholic-church-we-recognise-that-gay-couples-make-loving-parents-but-they-must-be-banned-from-marriage/

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First I was like:

Then:

And finally:

[reverend_tim]

1. We recognize what is right and just, we just don't support it. WTF

Did the person who wrote this purposely write a self sabotaging argument ?

Someday I will finish recovering from Catholicism, but I have a way to go.

[Crowman1979]

2. The day the Catholic Church stops raping children...

...is the day I'll bother to read or hear what they have to say. Until then, anything they say or release should be either erased or thrown in the garbage. In fact that's where this church belongs--the garbage bin of history.

[uriel1972]

3. If marriage is about children,

then why do we let infertile heterosexuals marry?

[William769]

4. No comment.