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The Catholic Church Wants to Remind You That God Thinks Gay Marriages Are Gross
By Hemant Mehta
March 15, 2021
Given the chance to do the right thing — the obvious thing — the Catholic Church has, once again, failed.
The Vatican issued a formal response today to the question of whether Catholic priests can “bless” same-sex unions. The answer up to this point has always been no. After all, the Catechism of the Catholic Church says homosexual acts are “intrinsically immoral and contrary to the natural law” and that homosexual “tendencies” are “objectively disordered.”
But given that Pope Francis supports civil unions — i.e. legal rights for gay couples — maybe the Church had finally opted to move into this century?
Nope.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Christians/Catholics always seem so upset and fixated on homosexuality which is only alluded to a couple of times in the bible.
Meanwhile, divorce is mentioned more than two dozen times yet these same religious zealots never speak out, protest, or try and criminalize divorce.
It's almost as if they don't understand what hypocrisy is.
Charles1971
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July 26, 2021
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I'm not surprised. The Catholic Bible condemns homosexuality, so to do anything other than not support homosexuality would mean they don't believe in at least a part of their Bible. That would open discussion to all other obviously wrong parts of their Bible.
I say so what. I was raised as a Roman Catholic, until I simply refused to participate in the madness when I was only 10 years old. Nothing the Church says or does affects me at all, so I end by saying "I do not even pay attention to what they say, no less fret about it".
Alienbeing
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Mar 16, 2021
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Why should he have to apologize? He has right to express any opinion he pleases but I think Canada has hate speech laws
Heavykevy1985
Level 6
Mar 16, 2021
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There are more equality laws that protect people that aren’t, ‘straight’ now, thank goodness.
@girlwithsmiles Btw, what or where or who is this “goodness” that so many people thank? ( grin )
@yvilletom Ok, ya got me....those that work hard and campaign for the changes we believe should happen?
They’ll never change......but thats fine they’ll just become irrelevant sooner rather than later. They know that.
CuddyCruiser
Level 8
Mar 15, 2021
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I think is important for everyone to realize just how much I care for what these people think, much less than the energy it took to write this.
dalefvictor
Level 8
Mar 15, 2021
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So, having the Exalted Founder of their System of Belief, Jesus, wandering around the country-side ACCOMPANIED by 12 other MALES, sleeping together in the ditches and by road-sides, hold a Men only Feast night, etc, etc, is quite moral and fits well with the ' natural law of things? '
Then along comes some woman, Jesus discovers that he is REALLY Bi-sexual and his best 'Buddy, ' Peter gets all uppity over this woman moving in on his territory.
But, according to Catholicism, that's quite within the ' Natural Law of Things,' makes a whole of sense to me NOT.
Triphid
Level 9
Mar 15, 2021
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On the plus side I saw the most romantic gay scene I’ve ever seen in a movie called, ‘The Old Guard’ last night. Plus they were kick ass fighters 
girlwithsmiles
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Mar 15, 2021
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