Government to grant full marriage rights for gay and lesbian couples.
So the government is to press ahead with legislation to permit ‘gay marriage’.
Christian keyboards are ablaze.
And I don’t give a crap.
Every single day I read news of slaughtered, raped, murdered, tortured, intimidated, terrified, abducted, imprisoned, threatened with hanging, forced to convert, brutalised, Christians.
I really don’t give a crap if gay folk want to marry; if the government want to sanction it, and even if some religious organisations want to solemnise it.
Honestly, there’s more for Christians to worry about.
Tags: Christianity, Law Moral Ethical, Politics, Religion Society
September 17th, 2011 at 2:24 pm
There is always something more to worry about than anything, the time will come when those slaughtered will also be trumped by something else.
This is exactly the thought process that the other side wants us to have.
September 17th, 2011 at 2:38 pm
Webmaster,
I was reminded of what St Paul in 1Cor 5, starting at verse 12
For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge? God will judge those outside.
September 18th, 2011 at 1:37 pm
I’m with you mate.
Almost half a decade ago my father, a well educated Christian himself, absentmindedly asked a question which still occupies my mind in quiet moments: Why are Christians so hung up on sex?
He was mulling over what you are here. With all the crap going on in the world doing real and immediate damage to people’s lives, why the hell do we spend so much time playing ‘culture war’ with secular sexual politics?
September 18th, 2011 at 7:26 pm
…why the hell do we spend so much time playing ‘culture war’ with secular sexual politics?
Why indeed.
Thanks Johnfom.
September 19th, 2011 at 10:47 am
Come on, Stuart, this shallow thinking is unworthy of you. You know full well it is not just about gay marriage (a contradiction in terms, if I ever heard one!) , but about the destruction of the Christian church. I would give it just a few years before the Church (yes, yours included) is forced by law to ‘marry’ homosexuals, and the Church then will be worth diddly-squat if it cannot even follow its own moral precepts, and will be worthy only of contempt.
September 19th, 2011 at 11:32 am
Well Jill, Churches being forced to marry homosexuals is the crux.
As long as that legal opt out remains, then they’ll be no problem.
And you must remember – and admit – that many of the pressures on the church, will be mounted by clergy who will feel emboldened by this legislation to solemnise gay marriage. Even if they perform this ‘symbolically’.
What I’m really worried about is being side-tracked.
I’m beginning to feel like the church is always being drawn into the ‘gay issue’. For example, I think an even bigger threat to the legitimacy of marriage is our appalling divorce stats. Marriage has become disposable.
The heart of the battle will be defining what Holy Matrimony really is, so that the general public understand the difference.
That’s where I’m coming from at the moment Jill.
September 20th, 2011 at 10:15 am
Hi,
I’ve found this blog following the hype about Stacy Trasancos, I’ve read a lot and now i feel it’s only right i make some sort of comment. When did the church take over marriages, we had them before, other religions have them so why the big problem about gay marriages?
Personally i’m not religious, which may be why i don’t understand, but isn’t it better to have a happy society that allows people to be free to do whatever makes them happy rather than attacking that idea until people believe it is wrong. Don’t forget non-religious people let the religious community build places of worship and yes some may get attacked as you get fanatics in all beliefs, but i find the most untolerating people to be religious.
I feel if everyone was more forgiving and tolerate each other we’d have a better functioning society without the hatred.
Please respond maybe it’s me that’s wrong, why isn’t it better to let people practice what they believe?
September 20th, 2011 at 2:19 pm
Hi Lee
The Catholic Church believes that there is an objective morality which is based on human beings’ nature and which, by following it, human beings will lead a truly fulfilling life.
If people are encouraged by social institutions such as gay ‘marriage’ to act wrongly, they may think they will be living well, but they will be wrong.
Now of course I wouldn’t expect you as a non-Catholic to accept such a point of view immediately. But I hope that gives you an insight into the Church’s thinking here.
However, even if you can’t accept the full teaching just now, do you at least recognize that what people think will make them happy and what in fact will make them happy are two different things? (And then we can go on to think about why the traditional understanding of marriage might be a better way of achieving true fulfilment.)