All right. You assume: - That there is some kind of universal validity to so-called gay marriage; - That the Catholic view of the sexes is singular to the Catholic Church and irrelevant to anyone else; - that the Catholic view of the sexes ha snothing to say (e.g. in its assumption of the complementarity of the sexes and of the need of both to total humanity) to anyone who is not Catholic; - and that therefore you can refuse to listen to any challenge from us or find an answer; you just have to say that that is the Catholic viewpoint and you have immediately invalided it; - that such an attitude does not deprive Catholics of any right to be heard by anyone who is not a Catholic; - that such an attitude has no consequences for the freedom of Catholics and Christians; - that there is no essential connection between "gay marriage" and the restriction of Church rights; that it does not affect the freedom of Christians; that it is only a few misguided "activists" who are assaulting the freedom of thought and belief, and not the whole tendency of the legislation; - that it is not intended to restrict and challenge the Church, to deny its values and implicitly challenge its action in the world; and this in spite of the fact that the only common feature of, in particular, mr.Zapatero's confused and incompetent governmental action is anti-Catholicism; - That it is not built on a pack of lies (as in Mr.Zapatero's government taking the Kinsey Report seriously); - That the bishop of Calgary was teaching Church doctrine rather than, as he was obviously doing, retailing a viewpoing on law and the application of law that was until recently common to all legislatures, and if anything more severe in non-Catholic ones (such as Nazi Germany and Communist Russia); - That he had no right to evoke such a legal view; - That the unfettered freedom of homosesuals to act as they please has no consequences for the rest of society; - that there is such a thing as "gay marriage"; - that it is not an imitation of the real thing; - that marriage in general is about sexual relationships; - that the nature of marriage can be changed to suit the political convenience of a bunch of crooks in Ottawa or of some ignorant, provincial morons in Madrid.
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Hunh.
All right. You assume:
- That there is some kind of universal validity to so-called gay marriage;
- That the Catholic view of the sexes is singular to the Catholic Church and irrelevant to anyone else;
- that the Catholic view of the sexes ha snothing to say (e.g. in its assumption of the complementarity of the sexes and of the need of both to total humanity) to anyone who is not Catholic;
- and that therefore you can refuse to listen to any challenge from us or find an answer; you just have to say that that is the Catholic viewpoint and you have immediately invalided it;
- that such an attitude does not deprive Catholics of any right to be heard by anyone who is not a Catholic;
- that such an attitude has no consequences for the freedom of Catholics and Christians;
- that there is no essential connection between "gay marriage" and the restriction of Church rights; that it does not affect the freedom of Christians; that it is only a few misguided "activists" who are assaulting the freedom of thought and belief, and not the whole tendency of the legislation;
- that it is not intended to restrict and challenge the Church, to deny its values and implicitly challenge its action in the world; and this in spite of the fact that the only common feature of, in particular, mr.Zapatero's confused and incompetent governmental action is anti-Catholicism;
- That it is not built on a pack of lies (as in Mr.Zapatero's government taking the Kinsey Report seriously);
- That the bishop of Calgary was teaching Church doctrine rather than, as he was obviously doing, retailing a viewpoing on law and the application of law that was until recently common to all legislatures, and if anything more severe in non-Catholic ones (such as Nazi Germany and Communist Russia);
- That he had no right to evoke such a legal view;
- That the unfettered freedom of homosesuals to act as they please has no consequences for the rest of society;
- that there is such a thing as "gay marriage";
- that it is not an imitation of the real thing;
- that marriage in general is about sexual relationships;
- that the nature of marriage can be changed to suit the political convenience of a bunch of crooks in Ottawa or of some ignorant, provincial morons in Madrid.
These are a few. More where they came from.