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To: Olog-hai

It is time these Catholic priests start talking about marriage for priests. They will understand why giving marriage between a man and a woman must be given exclusive treatment which is not hate speech—just as we give celibacy special treatment.


20 posted on 03/31/2013 2:56:37 PM PDT by jonrick46 (The opium of Communists: other people's money.)
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To: jonrick46

If they are “tolerant” of homosexuality, they do not have a proper understanding of matrimony, and their mockups of “marriage” would be as scandalous as the relations of many Church of England clergy.


23 posted on 03/31/2013 3:02:31 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Quien vive? JESUS! Y a su nombre? GLORIA! Y a su pueblo? VICTORIA!)
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To: jonrick46

“It is time these Catholic priests start talking about marriage for priests.”

The liberal Catholics who dig ‘gay marriage’ all hate the discipline of celibacy and talk about it constantly. They are all for doing away with it. In any case it would never be ‘marriage for priests’ but married men becoming priests.

Freegards


24 posted on 03/31/2013 3:10:45 PM PDT by Ransomed
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To: jonrick46
Celibacy has nothing to do with it. Catholic vowed celibates (priests, brothers, sisters) number about 100,000 in the USA, so they are approx. 0.032% of the U.S. population.

I mention that only because the vast majority of people who are supporting the deconstruction of marriage are not vowed celibates. An amazing number of them are married straights.

There's not much about marriage (apparently) that inclines public opinion away from gay pseudomarriage. Married people themselves increasingly support gay pseudomarriage

Too many married people just say "Marriage is good for us, why wouldn't it be good for them, too?"

That's what all the Republicans who are flipping over to the LGBT agenda are saying. "As a husband and a father, I love my gay son who just wants the kind of lasting bond with his partner that his mother and I have" etc. etc.

It's incredible. Jaw-dropping. But true. You cannot count on "normal" married people, even Christian married people, to be your allies anymore.

28 posted on 03/31/2013 4:16:20 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("You can observe a lot just by watchin'." - Yogi Berra)
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