JohnStOnge wrote:Perfectly reasonable. The Catholic Church position is that practicing homosexuality is a sin. That's the belief. It is not a democracy. If you don't agree with the belief system, leave the Catholic Church. And it sounds like the the protestors were clearly expressing support for the practice of homosexuality.
They didn't beat them up or burn them at the stake. They simply opted not to allow the protestors to participate in their most sacred sacrament. If you're wearing symbols blatantly promoting what the Catholic Church defines as sin I don't know why you should be surprised if you are not given communion.
If you believe something, stand up for it. Again: Nobody is forced to be a member of the Catholic Church and a church shouldn't make its decisions based on trying to please people. The whole point of their belief system is that God makes the rules and these are the rules. If you believe in God you don't change the rules because mankind decides it doesn't like them.
Good points John.
Thing that pisses me off is 1. Jesus would not give a flying fuck about gays and gays marrying. And 2. he would be royally livid about the Knights of Columbus and other Catholic henchmen giving millions of dollars, that could be used to help his poor, to lobbying groups fighting same sex marriages.
Add to that list a donation of a whopping $1.4 million in 2009 to the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), a nonprofit group dedicated to fighting same-sex marriage through the ballot initiative system in California, Maine and other states. In Iowa, the group has already spent $235,000 on an ad campaign aimed at convincing voters to oust three Iowa Supreme Court justices over their ruling that legalized same-sex marriage, and before that spent nearly $100,000 on a special legislative election in southeastern Iowa.
While NOM hasn’t yet made public its 2009 fundraising numbers, the amount of charitable contributions it received in 2008 totaled approximately $2.9 million.
The NOM donation eclipses what the Knights of Columbus’ Supreme Council spent on some of its own charitable programs — such as its new effort supporting food banks or its total spending on education initiatives — in the same year, much to the outrage of some observers, including Catholic groups.
Yeah, jesus would have loved this shit.
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