Christianity's confusion

[Shhhh! I'm Listening to Reason!]

Benedict's opposition to homosexuality is longstanding. In 1986,
Ratzinger signed another doctrinal document declaring that ''It is
only in the marital relationship that the use of the sexual faculty
can be morally good. A person engaging in homosexual behavior
therefore acts immorally."

http://www.boston.com/news/specials/gay_marriage/articles/2005/06/07/pope_says_gay_unions_are_false/

So here's how you do it: you condemn and oppose gay marriage. Then you
declare that anybody having sex outside matrimony is "immoral".

Therefore, homosexuality is "immoral". Case closed (along with a few
million minds).

[Rockinghorse Winner[_3_]]

In rec.audio.opinion, Shhhh! I'm Listening to Reason! had the audacity to say that:

> Benedict's opposition to homosexuality is longstanding. In 1986,
> Ratzinger signed another doctrinal document declaring that ''It is
> only in the marital relationship that the use of the sexual faculty
> can be morally good. A person engaging in homosexual behavior
> therefore acts immorally."
>
> http://www.boston.com/news/specials/gay_marriage/articles/2005/06/07/pope_says_gay_unions_are_false/
>
> So here's how you do it: you condemn and oppose gay marriage. Then you
> declare that anybody having sex outside matrimony is "immoral".
>
> Therefore, homosexuality is "immoral". Case closed (along with a few
> million minds).

I don't care if gays want to call what they have a marriage, just as I don't
care that a pair of codependent lunatics want to call what *they* have one;
in fact as far as I'm concerned ya'll could call yerselves married or not,
and I assure you it will not make as much indentation on my mind as a
mosquito makes on a puddle --

but you are dealing with the Catholic Church here. What else do you want
them to say? I mean the world might be moving right along at a nice clip for
liberals, but it's hardly moving for conservatives. So, like a slow motorist
on the freeway, don't slam your horn and hurl invective: go *around*.

I think you can figure out for yourself what that means.

*R* *H*
--
"His one secret thought, became like a chain, binding down his spirit, and,
like a serpent, gnawing into his heart; and he was transformed into a sad
and downcast, yet irritable man."

Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Roger Malvin's Burial"