Phew!
Can his position be distilled into PLAIN English??
This is yet further proof that the whole issue of gay marriage is going to affect all of society, we can’t escape it. It’s not a question of leaving gays alone, it’s far beyond that.
What are “things that make you go ‘Unnngh!’”, Your Grace?
Well, about time someone put this whole “gay marriage” issue into legalize. Love it. Will have to remember this argument sometime when I am challenged about gay marriage.
So, Joseph took Mary as his wife but they weren’t really “married” until after Jesus birth when he actually had sexual relations with her?
(Or, if you are Catholic, they were presumably NEVER married.)
“Historically, a marriage has not been considered a binding contract until and unless it has been consummated.”
With the state involved, the definition it uses to recognize the institution is simply whatever judges, pols or the majority thinks it is at any one time. And that’s it, and that’s all it will ever be. Combine that with the fact many have been conditioned to think marriage comes from and is defined by the state and you have what we have today. It was always a danger. Pope Leo XIII warned about it 130 years ago.
Freegards