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User:	"Sound of Trumpet"
Date:	18 Mar 2007 07:19:30 PM
Object:	Catholics Will Do Everything Possible To Prevent Homosexual Civil Unions

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Vatican Prelate: Catholics will "do everything possible" to prevent
Homosexual Civil Unions
LifeSiteNews ^ | 3/12/07 | Gudrun Schultz
Posted on 03/12/2007 5:22:07 PM PDT by wagglebee
VATICAN CITY, March 12, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Legislation
permitting de facto and same-sex unions would be so damaging to family
life and society that Catholics will do "everything possible" to
ensure the laws do not pass, the head of the Pontifical Academy for
Life said last week.
"Catholics will do everything to shed light on the debate, and will do
everything possible so that these proposals will not pass," said
Bishop Elio Sgreccia, during a press conference at Vatican Radio.
"Everything based on untruths is destined to damage someone, if not
many people."
Zenit News Agency reported March 7 on Bishop Sgreccia comments at the
Rome launch of a book on the issue by Carlo Casini, a European
Parliamentary member representing Italy. Casini's book was titled
"Unioni di fatto, matrimonio, figli: tra ideologia e realt=E0" (De Facto
Unions, Marriage, Children: Between Ideology and Facts), published in
Italian by Societ=E0 Editrice Fiorentina.
Bishop Sgreccia said the Church's objections to de facto unions simply
upheld laws established by international and national legislation,
recognizing the family as the foundation of human society. The bishop
referred to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights where it states
that "the family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society
and is entitled to protection by society and the state."
"If family stability is weakened, the fundamental group unit of
society is also weakened," Bishop Sgreccia said.
Homosexual unions would go "against a law of nature," he said, since
"in the corporality of man and woman there is written natural and
structural complementarity pertaining to emotional life, sexual life
and the procreation of children."
"Natural law expresses the good sense" of that union between a man and
a woman, Bishop Sgreccia said.
Further, the family is essential for economic health and social
progress.
"If we wish to see an economy that has as its main unit family health,
then we must take into account that the de facto families,
constitutionally precarious, are the source, as well as divorce and
separations, of social and economic instability."
Far from encouraging the establishment of de facto unions, "the state
would do well in helping youth by teaching them the formation of a
true family, with a civic or religious marriage, but stable, and with
an eased access to house and work."
"This is where the money should be spent," said the bishop, "and not
creating marital precariousness."
Permitting legal unions apart from marriage injures young people by
"placing them in a situation that does not give security, that does
not give stability or serenity."
At the same time, legalizing homosexual unions does not address the
real needs of people dealing with same-sex attraction, the bishop
said.
"[G]ay pride certainly does not help them in overcoming their
suffering, which instead must be faced with human understanding, with
medical and psychological sciences, and with promotional attitudes of
all the good qualities that exist in these persons."
See related LifeSiteNews coverage:
Vatican Bishop: Humanity Heading for "Self-Genocide"
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/jan/07012607.html
Bishop Sgreccia Named President of Pontifical Academy For Life
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/jan/05010308.html
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Title: Re: Catholics Will Do Everything PossibleToPreventHomosexualCivilUnions	30 Mar 2007 09:03:06 AM

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On Mar 21, 3:20 pm, "Patriot Games" <Crazy_Bast...@Yahoo.com>
wrote:

No, the Bible is extremely clear on the topic.
Leviticus 18:12 "it is an abomination for a man to lay down
with
another
man
as he does with a woman".

Are you aware of all the other restrictions that are RIGHT
NEXT
TO
this one in Leviticus? Eating shellfish? Wearing clothes made
of
more
than one kind of fiber?

The topic isn't shellfish. The topic isn't clothing.

Whatever you think the "topic" is, the fact is that there are a
large
number of prohibitions in Leviticus that sensible people ignore,
if
only
because these prohibitions were simply the rules and taboos for
Jewish
tribes wandering around the Middle East thousands of years ago.
There
is
also a prohibition against eating pork. When fuel is scarce,
food
doesn't
get cooked as well, and if you don't cook pork adequately, you
may
end
up with trichinosis. So some of the rules obviously make sense
in
a
particular situation. If some do, you should evaluate each rule
on
its
own merits.

Feel free to do whatever you want.

The Bible is extremely clear on the topic.
Leviticus 18:12 "it is an abomination for a man to lay down
with
another
man
as he does with a woman".
Period.

Read the last sentences in Levicitus (Leviticus 27:34): "These
are
the
commands the LORD gave Moses on Mount Sinai for the Israelites."

<http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=3&chapter=27&version=31>>>>>>>

It says, "Israelites", not all of mankind.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!
Right! So, only Jews can't be fags!! HAHAHAHAHAHHA!!!!

That it was purely rules for the "Israelites" makes sense - at
the
time
they were forging a unique cultural identity, and that is easier
to
do
if you have customs that differ from those of your neighbors.

Feel free to do whatever you want.
But remember God loves you and wants you to stop sucking dicks.

God wants a lot of things, but since He is not willing to pay for
the privilege...

That's how it works. I didn't make the Rules. Humans pay now, God
rewards
later.

If at all...

Gun people have a saying: Its better to have it and not need it than
to
need it and not have it.
The same can be said of a person's religious beliefs.

Then Games will not cry when he learns God has rewards, but no
need to share them with him.

Sorry, God said the opposite.

So God has NO rewards...THAT'S why he SO happy to share.

Cite?

Read the last thing YOU wrote...

Humans pay now, God rewards later.
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User: "Paul Duca"
Title: Re: Catholics Will Do EverythingPossibleToPreventHomosexualCivilUnions	30 Mar 2007 08:26:51 PM

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