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2012-03-04 Britain

Catholic leader Cardinal Keith O'Brien clashes with David Cameron on same-sex marriage plans

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Posted by tipper 2012-03-04 02:14|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 I honestly believed we had them already. Anyway didn't we kick Catholics out 400 years ago, some problems with divorce I believe! :P screw it, we'll make our own religion with gay marriages and strippers and divorce and free loving and call it the Christian brainchild of England!

Posted by Devilstoenail 2012-03-04 07:39|| 2012-03-04 07:39|| Front Page Top

#2 Get Government out of marriage (and religion).

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2012-03-04 09:46|| 2012-03-04 09:46|| Front Page Top

#3 Religions have been missing a bet, here.

The recognition of civil marriage *had* the purpose of bestowing public support to couples who intended to reproduce and raise children. However, like anything else it touches, government is now trying to subvert marriage to perverse ends.

So the way religions can get around this is to recreate marriage as a wholly religious thing, as well as to persuade their congregants to shun government marriage. Since governments already expanded privileges of marriage to couples living together, this should be possible.

The next step is made possible by modern technology. It is to make a "Catholic registry of marriage", in which all Catholic marriages are recorded. And since Catholicism does not recognize divorce, only annulment, this acts to enforce Catholic marriage. Eventually while the church has "grandfathered" existing marriages, when they die out, it will not recognize civil marriage among Catholics, only church marriage.

Civil marriage will be the same as living in sin. Acceptable only among non-Catholics.

Doing this will terribly frustrate government efforts to subvert Catholicism, and they will likely eventually refuse to recognize church marriage. And while it will be somewhat oppressive, it will hurt government worse by denying them control of the process.

Posted by Anonymoose 2012-03-04 13:09|| 2012-03-04 13:09|| Front Page Top

#4 'Moose, IIRC there are some European countries where you have to have to have both a civil and religious marriage, if you want a religious marriage.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2012-03-04 21:25|| 2012-03-04 21:25|| Front Page Top

#5 'Moose, IIRC there are some European countries where you have to have to have both a civil and religious marriage, if you want a religious marriage.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2012-03-04 21:25|| 2012-03-04 21:25|| Front Page Top

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