Exactly What Christ Says at Christmas
It’s the men in dresses again, y’all.
A senior Roman Catholic will today use his Christmas sermon to liken plans for the legalisation of gay marriage to the way the Nazis and Communists tried to undermine religion.
The Bishop of Shrewsbury will launch a vociferous attack on the Coalition’s decision to fast track a vote on same-sex marriage in the New Year.
The Right Reverend Mark Davies will use his midnight Mass to say marriage can only be between a man and a woman.
Yep, the gays are exactly like the Nazis. Except for that killing 6 million people thing, which they will get started on right after brunch.
The Bishop of Shrewsbury. Irony is alive and well.
Thanks to Brian for the heads up.
The Roman Catholic hierarchy needs to figure out that they lost control of human thought when Martin Luther picked up his hammer.
1Yeah, gay marriage is Nazi, abortion is Nazi… never mind that real Nazis were very anti-abortion and sent a lot of gays to concentration camps to die.
We need to teach history (as well as science) a lot better than we apparently do. And someone needs to remind the men in dresses about numerous Biblical marriages between a man and a whole lot of women.
212 Million dead- Jews, gypsies, the mentally ill and handicapped, prisoners of war and gays. Kind of a hot button of mine, worked with a survivor many years ago. She said never forget those who did not have a voice to speak for them. Rest in Peace Rachel Levy.
3Let’s not forget that the Nazis and the RCC were buds.
And Nazi Germany invaded the USSR, so you can’t say that Nazis and Communists like each other.
4Let’s see: The Nazis made gays men and lesbians wear a pink triangle, then rounded them up and sent them to death camps. Just like being married, I guess.
5I think they Catholic Church is fighting a losing battle on this issue. Catholics in Europe are tolerant of gays and more and more people in this country are realizing that one’s predisposition for sex has absolutely nothing to do with their worth as a person.
If the church would have paid as much attention to who their priests were abusing they would have a lot more money in the bank. Hell, the pope could afford two or three pair of Prada loafers to wear under those hideous skirts he wears.
6I was in the seminary for 8 years. Gawd I hated wearing those dresses. Got tired of going to confession every few days to tell the good father that I did the thing again with my right hand. I think I had a good angel that told me to leave the sem & enjoy that which occasionally was attached to my hand. Then I understood that sexual feelings, orientation are a gift from God.
7Ah, yes……another old man in sparkly robes telling others how to live. This old gay man doesn’t give a diddly squat what any of them think…….if they even think. I swear they get more absurd by the minute. I wonder if they teach classes on how to hate others? They surely seem to be good at it. The only reason they hate “teh gay” is because gays can’t produce all those new congregants that donate money! It’s all about the money…..always has been. I saw hungry people in Mexico begging for money, and then drag themselves to a nearby church and give it to the church. Look at the opulence at the vatican.
8If that doesn’t give one a clue, then nothing else will.
Preach on whoever you are……no one is listening.
Gay marriage is far more supportive of marriage than Mark Davies’ commitment to celibacy is.
9Seems like the Right Reverend needs a refresher course in what the Bible says about marriage. Here is Mrs. Betty Bowers, America’s Best Christian, to offer a quick tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFkeKKszXTw
10Molly Ivins and Ann Richards would have had a field day with these clowns! I miss them!
11I have often thought that God and his Fallen Angel made a “Jobian” deal with the Catholic Church. God say’s, “Hey Satan, so this church is formed on Peter’s Rock, and I’m gonna give it to you to do with what you will, only thing is, you can’t completely destroy it…. and let’s see how many humans Can tell the difference between your church and mine.” and Satan Giggled….
12With war, poverty and a world financial crisis…….
Yep gay marriage is worse.
What is wrong with these people? Because there is something very very wrong with these Catholics.
They have lost the teachings and example of Christ.
13Oh, and deliberately celibate people will not bear any responsibility for the end of humandkind? If you can’t wrap your mind around that and come up with RCC clerics, remember a group called the Shakers? They believed in evangelizing rather than propagating. As for the Bishop of Shrewsbury, he has a bubble rather like Mittens has, and that is the problem. If he reaches out and pops the bubble, he will land in the middle of humankind. Eeeeeeew!
14They have left the Gospel behind. They have never heard Isaiah. They are all preaching some “Gospel of Life” that is rooted in THEIR OWN interpretation of the “natural law,” but this is the same Magesterium that took 400 YEARS to accept Galileo’s interpretation of “natural laws” that was SPOT ON! So let’s go back to those other four (5 w Isaiah)
Try to get in through the narrow door.
Let the one among you who is sinless cast the first stone.
Go into a quiet room away from others to pray.
Many will come in my name (!)
Not everyone who says “Lord, lord” will enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Woe to him who leads astray one of these little ones (!)
And Isasiah said of Him,
A bruised reed he shall not break and a smoldering wick he shall not quench.
Yeah, the Church has only done what 9 of 10 fools do: they had to try to make everything more complicated to preserve their “role” in the plan of salvation. So you see, they missed the whole point, they can’t put themselves aside for others. That’s it in a nutshell. Check out the Nuns on the Bus, they are Catholic too, and they are trying to follow the Master!
15Love the nuns on the bus. They are the chosen few.
16Nobody makes much sense these days. A marriage (wedding, in church and blessed by the church) is not the same as a civil union or a domestic partnership. But if two people are married by a preacher or a JP, they’re just as married either way. Why can’t people who believe in marriage and the blessing by the church leave those people alone who want to have the legal rights due any domestic partnership, whether it’s sanctioned by the church or not? I don’t understand at all.
17Any marriage ( male-female or same sex) is a business partnership above and beyond whatever love or lust brought the two together. There are legal rights and responsibilities tied to the union. There has to be good management of resources, maintenance of property, obligatory insurance and property ownership responsibility. A budget has to be worked out. Cooperation and compromise must prevail in order for the union to remain in place and grow stronger. The two people become each other’s immediate next of kin amidst all of this legal and civic framework, and each must take on the care of the other in cases of illness, disabililty, and together they must establish encompassing care for any children/pets/elderly inlaws who depend on them.
Perhaps if every person who seeks to marry in the tradition and with the blessing of the church ( any church ) or who seeks to attain the rights and privileges of any civil union or domestic partnership agreement were brought to an understanding of just exactly what he or she is asking for and what will be demanded of him or her to achieve this partnership, there would be greater understanding and tolerance and support for all who wish to share the journey through life with a like-minded, loving and responsible other. There is not any possibility at all that gay partnerships, civil unions or marriages can undermine the religiously defined marriages of herterosexual couples simply because they are all the same . . . . a strong commitment between two people who care deeply about each other and are willing to form a union that will grant them legal rights and privileges to care for and about each other and will demand more generosity of spirit, more flexibility, more responsibility, more courage, more resilience, more forgiveness, more honesty,more grace, and more executive capability than most of us are truly able to muster and provide.
Wouldn’t it be nice if everyone could just celebrate the unions or marriages or partnerships of all people and rejoice in the love and friendship that brought them together?