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Related: About this forumAnti-same-sex marriage booklet sent to Catholic schools 'degrades' young gay people
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/15/anti-same-sex-marriage-flyer-sent-to-catholic-schools-degrades-young-gay-peopleThe wide distribution of the pastoral letter from the Catholic bishops of Australia has angered supporters of same-sex marriage, who say they are shocked at the discriminatory message it sends to vulnerable young people who are coming to terms with their sexuality.
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The letter says it is gravely unjust to legitimate the false assertion that there is nothing distinctive about a man and a woman, a father or a mother and to ignore the particular values that real marriage serves.
The letter says the churchs traditional view of marriage is that it goes further than an emotional union and involves a substantial bodily and spiritual union of a man and a woman that is ordered towards the generation and wellbeing of children.
Keep fighting to be bigots, RCC. You'll seal your own doom.
longship
(40,416 posts)And reproductive rights for women. And -- Dun! Dun! Dunnnnn! -- condoms!
Don't get me started about demonic possession, certainly a worldwide affliction. At least apparenlty common at the Vatican. Just ask Father Amorth. It is not at all amazing that the bug exterminator always seems to find bugs to exterminate?
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)I was just told that the RCC is a revolutionary anti capitalist powerhouse.
skepticscott
(13,029 posts)the greatest champion of environmentalism in the world (while at the same time being the biggest promoter of overpopulation in the world..go figure).
trotsky
(49,533 posts)But you know, he washed somebody's feet. And hugged a disfigured man. So he is basically the most wonderful human being who has ever existed and we shouldn't dwell on him calling marriage equality "from Satan" or likening gender identity to Nazism.
"I was just told that the RCC is a revolutionary anti capitalist powerhouse."
Seems to me that taking people's money while providing absolutely zilch in return in the form of goods or services is the very definition of a capitalist wet dream. Pure profit.
When the RCC sells off all of its assets and pumps every penny into corporal works of "mercy" AND disavows centuries of anti-woman, anti-LGBT bigotry, maybe I'll give it a listen. Not a moment before.