Catholic Church Opposes Elderly Marriage
At least I think that’s what they’re saying they oppose:
If voters approve a November ballot measure banning same-sex marriages in California, thousands of gay and lesbian weddings conducted since the state Supreme Court legalized the unions on May 15 will probably remain valid, Attorney General Jerry Brown said Monday.
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“I believe that marriages that have been entered into subsequent to the (May 15) Supreme Court opinion will be recognized by the California Supreme Court,” Brown told The [San Francisco] Chronicle. Noting that Prop. 8 is silent about retroactivity, he said, “I would think the court, in looking at the underlying equities, would most probably conclude that upholding the marriages performed in that interval (before the election) would be a just result.”
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In another development Monday, the California Catholic Conference, representing Catholic bishops, endorsed Prop. 8, declaring that “same-sex unions are not the same as opposite-sex unions” and that only a relationship that can produce children should be called marriage.
Which is why every heterosexual couple that ever seeks to obtain a Catholic wedding by a Catholic priest in a Catholic church (at least in California) must provide proof of fertility. And why every California Catholic wedding that does not result in pregnancy within one year is summarily annulled.
Aren’t they?
Surely that must be the procedure, if Mother Church demands that “only a relationship that can produce children should be called marriage.”
I have thoroughly debunked the “procreation as a basis for anti-gay discrimination in marriage” canard repeatedly, and will not do so again. What’s the point? Trying to persuade a Catholic bishop is like trying to persuade a stone gargoyle atop his cathedral. (And at least the gargoyle doesn’t get to vote to designate you a second-class citizen.)
The only thing worse than a bigoted “Christian” leader is a dumb and bigoted “Christian” leader making dumb and bigoted excuses for their bigotry.
Filed under: Gay Rights and Issues, Law, Politics, Society, Religion, Culture Wars
But Kip, the Good Lord could work a MIRACLE and an 82 year old woman COULD conceive! It's in the Bible, it has happened!
Hello Kip,
We know for a fact that "marriage is for procreation" is not Wisconsin's public policy, for example:
First cousins are only allowed to marry if (1) a doctor attests under penalty of perjury that at least one of them is permanently sterile or (2) the woman is at least 55 years old.
In other words, Wisconsin allows first cousins to marry only under the condition that they can't procreate.
Jeff Deutsch