[Reelect President Dubya]

Here Comes The Bride, Or Maybe The Groom

You can usually tell which one is the pitcher and which one is the catcher.

[supercat]

Marriage isn't about the creation of a union which will, with luck, last a lifetime. It's about the creation of a family which will, with luck, endure forever even after the progenitors are long dead.

Strong families are based upon either biological ties, or upon what can be plausibly regarded as biological ties; any decently-bred person has one each mother, father, maternal grandmother, maternal grandfater, paternal grandmother, and paternal grandfather; whether these persons are blood or adoptive relatives, and whether they're living or dead, they're all distinct individuals. When a couple gets married, they're establishing the identity of the six afforementioned relations for any children of theirs who will come into the marriage whether by birth or adoption.

Although the alarming divorce rate in this country means that many children don't get raised by both parents, at least both parents will exist as identifiable individuals. How would one draw the family try of someone who was adopted from birth by a couple of men or a couple of women?

[Salvation]

The Catechism of the Catholic Church.

Do a search for homosexuality.

2357 Homosexuality refers to relations between men or between women who experience an exclusive or predominant sexual attraction toward persons of the same sex. It has taken a great variety of forms through the centuries and in different cultures. Its psychological genesis remains largely unexplained. Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that "homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered." They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved.

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[Gritty]

Fred doesn't like the idea.

He speaks for most of us.