GAY MARRIAGE: Passed in New York...

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I have just heard that New York has passed legislation legalizing GAY MARRIAGE.

This was a hard fought battle. The legislation was proposed by Governor Andrew Cuomo (Catholic & Democrat) and passed by a Republican controlled legislature…go figure.

I have often stated that in Europe and elsewhere, all marriages are legal civil unions and have to be performed by the state. Religious marriage ceremonies are NOT legally binding but are performed for people who want to add a religious dimension to their marriage.

If the U.S. would follow this method, there would be no controversy; just take away the legal power of churches to marry and require only courts to issue legal civil union certificates…problem solved.

But we as a nation can’t seem to take the easy and fair road; we have to complicate things and it all hinges on the definition of the word “marriage”…how silly.

Anyway, the law has provisions that allow churches that are against gay marriage, not to perform those marriages…how simple is that? Well, nothing is obviously simple about this issue so expect much drama implementing this new law.

Before the law was passed, Maureen Dowd of the New York Times had a great article (June 19) titled: THE ARCHBISHOP VS. THE GOVERNOR: Gay Sera, Sera with a great subtitle: “Starchbishop Dolan speaks now and never holds his peace.”

Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York took it upon himself to stop the gay marriage bill…and obviously, he failed in the long run.

Maureen Dowd had some great insights into the issue that I just MUST share.

She said that Archbishop Dolan had called gay marriage a perversity against nature but says nothing about the true perversity against nature of the priestly sex molestation scandal.

She mentions that Dolan that marriage between a man and a woman is “hard-wired” by God and nature but how does he know that homosexuality is NOT hard-wired by God and nature and is NOT a lifestyle choice.

This is my argument from the start that homosexuals are “born” that way and don’t decide to “become” homosexuals and science will bear this out. And if they are “born” homosexual than God and nature created them that way…so there!

She talked about the meeting of American catholic Bishops in Seattle (Dolan is head) and I have blogged about that recently. She ridiculed a study commissioned by the bishops, that blamed the permissive secular society as a cause for the priestly sex scandal (free love 1960s) instead of celibacy rules that attracted homosexuals to the priesthood…how absurd.

Also at the meeting, a retired bishop from Anchorage, Alaska proposed that some priests guilty of sex crimes could return to parish duty…the motion failed but to even suggest such a motion is the height of absurdity and shows you how these bishop morons think.

She ended the article by saying that in light of the WEINER scandal, maybe politicians should be celibate and priests should be married…nice.

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