Ike Milligan wrote:
"Thomas P." <tonyofremovethisbexar@yahoo.dk,> wrote in message
news:57cqivg8p6g0qfadgj9e611nffaf0grlek@4ax.com...
In the introduction we are told that the argument will be based on the
Church's teachings but will also be directed at those who do not
believe in Christ by referring to "right reason" and "natural
morality". Ignoring the fact that the two phrases are never actually
defined, the document's only use of them is to claim that homosexual
marriage violates them with no attempt at explaining why.
The paragraph below is a good example:
The scope of the civil law is certainly more limited than that of the
moral law,(11) but civil law cannot contradict right reason >without losing
its binding force on conscience.(12) Every humanly-created law is legitimate
insofar as it is consistent with the >natural moral law, recognized by right
reason, and insofar as it respects the inalienable rights of every
person.(13) Laws in favour >of homosexual unions are contrary to right
reason because they confer legal guarantees, analogous to those granted to
marriage, >to unions between persons of the same sex. Given the values at
stake in this question, the State could not grant legal standing to >such
unions without failing in its duty to promote and defend marriage as an
institution essential to the common good.
In other words such laws would be wrong, because they would allow
homosexual marriage; and that would be wrong. Is this the best the
Vatican can do? It is like saying we need the segregation laws,
because, without them, the races would not be kept separate.
In other passages the document makes outrageous claims, which it makes
no effort to support, for example:
As experience has shown, the absence of sexual complementarity in these
unions creates obstacles in the normal development of >children who would be
placed in the care of such persons.
What experience? Where is their data? The entire document is based
on "the authority of the Church" and on the classic "everybody knows"
argument.
Thomas P.
Uh, so what? You expected better?
Vatican doublespeak is eerily similar to Washington doublespeak, which
can only mean one thing: George W. Bush is God! All in favor of
appeasing the LORD hold up your snorting mirrors.
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