God and Gay Marriage

Quote: FrGamble

I also hate to draw fire away from Evenbob's usually incorrect statements.

Most excellent!! And finally you recognize being nothing but a fish in the barrel.

Thanks Nareed your last post cheered me up a little bit.

Quote: Evenbob

Bigotry is no longer legal in schools or the
military or in business. It shouldn't be allowed
in churches either.

Where do you get bigotry from? I'm simply trying to say treat everyone equal under the law, but make distinctions and use different words to describe different things.

Quote: Nareed

under what conditions does a Catholic parish accept or decline to perform a marriage for any given couple?.

The Church will not marry a man who is
impotent. If he can't have intercourse,
they will refuse to marry him. Nice, huh.

If you lost your penis in a war, and many
men have, no getting married for you.
The Church openly discriminates against
the disabled.

"In 1996 the Catholic Church refused to marry a paraplegic man because he was assumed to be unable to engage in sexual activity which led to procreation which was contrary to Vatican policy"

There are lots of stories like this one out there.
It's really disgusting, what business is it to a bunch
of men in the priesthood if you can have sex or
not.

http://www.catholic.com/blog/trent-horn/why-the-church-cannot-marry-the-impotent

Quote: FrGamble

Where do you get bigotry from?

big·ot
ˈbiɡət/
noun

a person who is intolerant toward those holding different opinions.

The Church is extremely intolerant of practicing homosexuals,
that's bigotry. What else would you call it. Yet the Church itself
has a huge number of Gay priests. Your current Pope admits it.
Talk about irony..

Quote: FrGamble

Thanks Nareed your last post cheered me up a little bit.

I can hear the forum collectively thinking: "I find that hard to believe" :)

Quote: Evenbob

big¡¤ot
ˈbi¨Àət/
noun

a person who is intolerant toward those holding different opinions.

Ha, I knew you would quote the definition and you my friend are the picture next to it.

By the way thanks for quoting a very good source in one of your recent posts. If one would just ignore what you wrote and read the link that would be great.

Quote: FrGamble

If one would just ignore what you wrote and read the link that would be great.

You mean the Church discriminating against disabled
people? The loving, tolerant Church?

Are you saying it's not true?

I'm saying that your link does a better job than I could in explaining why it is not discrimination.

Quote: FrGamble

I'm saying that your link does a better job than I could in explaining why it is not discrimination.

Everybody who discriminates has a 'good'
reason for doing so. It's still discrimination
and you know it. I can list all the 'good'
reasons why whites discriminate against blacks,
or Muslims discriminate against Jews. Why
are your reasons better than theirs.

They aren't. In fact, the Church is in violation
of the law. The Equality Act of 2010 makes
it against the law to deny a disabled person exactly
what the Church is denying him.