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Jul. 31st, 2003 01:50 pm"I believe in the sanctity of marriage. I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman, and I think we ought to codify that one way or the other." Stupid president. Codify your opinions? I'd say no just on principle, but having lived iwth a couple of years of your opinions, specifically, perhaps you can understand my belligerence to them.
"There are absolutely no grounds for considering homosexual unions to be in any way similar or even remotely analogous to God's plan for marriage and family," the Vatican document says. Right, because the Catholic Church says the point of being married is to have babies, which is how they can convince people that sex (and birth control and other good things) are bad. You're not supposed to enjoy sex, you're supposed to use it for procreation!
People actually think this?!
As if homosexual people do not love each other as much as people who can get married now, or as if they couldn't be good parents. "But they can't have kids themselves!" someone will point out. So? My parents couldn't have kids! They adopted my brother and I ... and though we have our differences, I think they're very good parents. By Catholic standards, though (and my dad is Catholic, and my brother and I were "raised" Catholic) my parents' marriage is probably useless because they couldn't procreate.
My mom doesn't like gay people. (After the first one, I learned not to tell her when my friends happen to be anything other than boring old heterosexuals.) I'm sure she doesn't want them to be able to get married. (I've also learned not to tell her stuff I think that disagrees with her, like that French things aren't bad, we're not doing a very good job of liberating the Iraqi people, and anybody should be able to have sex with and marry anybody they want.)
"There are absolutely no grounds for considering homosexual unions to be in any way similar or even remotely analogous to God's plan for marriage and family," the Vatican document says. Right, because the Catholic Church says the point of being married is to have babies, which is how they can convince people that sex (and birth control and other good things) are bad. You're not supposed to enjoy sex, you're supposed to use it for procreation!
People actually think this?!
As if homosexual people do not love each other as much as people who can get married now, or as if they couldn't be good parents. "But they can't have kids themselves!" someone will point out. So? My parents couldn't have kids! They adopted my brother and I ... and though we have our differences, I think they're very good parents. By Catholic standards, though (and my dad is Catholic, and my brother and I were "raised" Catholic) my parents' marriage is probably useless because they couldn't procreate.
My mom doesn't like gay people. (After the first one, I learned not to tell her when my friends happen to be anything other than boring old heterosexuals.) I'm sure she doesn't want them to be able to get married. (I've also learned not to tell her stuff I think that disagrees with her, like that French things aren't bad, we're not doing a very good job of liberating the Iraqi people, and anybody should be able to have sex with and marry anybody they want.)