[NYer]

Catholic Ping!

[muawiyah]

So, how’s that civil registration thing working out for you?

[TheConservativeBanker]

I hope that the Vatican sees that its vigorous promotion of socialism as the solution to the plight of the poor is not disconnected from the decline of sexual morality in the West.

[Morris70]

Johnny come late.

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Did they just notice the problem now?

Little bit late there.

[mtg]

As God said, the gates of hell shall not prevail against His Church. The devil is constantly working to destroy the Catholic Church. While some people insist on protesting the Catholic Church, the Church holds strong to the Truth.

[dirtymac]

They will let the clergy get polluted by allowing gays and pedofhiles within the churches rank but by God they will not allow them to get married. The church must draw the line somewhere. Having anul sex with children is okay and should not be any reason to question who you are as a church but we will fight for preserving marriage.

The catholics will vote in droves for Obama and all that he stands for (too numerous to itemize here and now) but gay marriage is out of the question. The church must draw a line somewhere.

What hypocracy.

If the catholic church could find a way to make money on the deal, the pope would conduct the ceremony. Maybe they could do it on bingo night.

[Melas]

If not, why not contemplate also freely chosen polygamy and, not to discriminate, polyandry?

Not to pick, but it's my nature. Polygamy is inclusive of polyandry, not in competition with it. The gender specific forms are polygyny (multiple wives) and polyandry (multiple husbands). Polygamy is inclusive of both.

[Salman]

Ultimately it will be human nature that defeats “gay marriage”.

[SuziQ]

Frankly the biggest fight the Church will have is among Catholics. There are so many who are willing to let homosexual marriage slide, because they've gotten so used to homosexuality by the culture in which we live, pushed by the media, which has its own bias in favor of the lifestyle. If someone didn't know better, they'd assume, by their presence on most TV shows, that homosexuals must make up 25% of the population, when the true figure is about a tenth of that. And young Catholics, especially, have been indoctrinated into the notion of 'civil rights' for homosexuals, which includes 'marriage'.

We need GOOD catechesis in a major way!