Pope Says Gay Marriage Poses A Threat To 'Justice And Peace' In World Day Of Peace 2013 Address
Pope Benedict XVI said this week that gay marriage poses a threat to "justice and peace." The 85-year-old religious leader went on to suggest that same-sex marriage is "unnatural."
According to the Associated Press, the head of the Roman Catholic Church kicked off the Christmas season on Friday with the traditional lighting of the tree in Vatican City's St. Peter's Square. On the same day, the Holy See released the Pope's message for World Day of Peace 2013.
As Gay Star News reports, the Pope, in his annual address, said that same-sex marriage is "unnatural" and "against human nature."
This is where I beat my head on my desk. Really? Unnatural and against human nature? So tell us, oh great Mouth of Gawd, what IS the natural state of marriage?
"There is…a need to acknowledge and promote the natural structure of marriage as the union of a man and a woman in the face of attempts to make it juridically equivalent to radically different types of union," the Pope said, according to ANSA.
"Such attempts actually harm and help to destabilize marriage, obscuring its specific nature and its indispensable role in society. These principles are not truths of faith, nor are they simply a corollary of the right to religious freedom. They are inscribed in human nature itself, accessible to reason and thus common to all humanity," he continued.
The Pope went on to suggest that support of gay marriage "constitutes an offense against the truth of the human person, with serious harm to justice and peace."
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Marriage being a union of man and woman is a relatively new thing to human society. At one time it was common for one man and many wives (and concubines and mistress' and so on) or more rare a woman and her men. That might have changed slightly to one man and one woman officially, but there were many times when the man - when away from the home or sometimes not - had another wife or at least a woman to warm his bed at night. Oh and it was also one man and one woman and her family, or visa versa depending on their social status because marriage was nothing but a status contract for most. Marriage has never BEEN about one man and one woman until recently when people started to look for a more solid commitment and were free to tack "love" into the mix.
And if marriage is "are inscribed in human nature itself, accessible to reason and thus common to all humanity" then he should be all for gay marriage, because being gay is a natural state for the person who is gay (and again, nature, as more research into the why's of Gayness shows) and thus by their very human nature, they deserve marriage. For the Truth of THAT human gay person is that they are attracted to only those of the same sex when looking for a mate. In being married, a gay couple (of either sex) is becoming part of the indispensable role of society, whether it's in the taxes collected, the materials they buy or in the children they rear (adopted or natural). If Gay marriage is harm to justice and peace, then so is every other marriage in this world; which if you look at it in that way, with divorce as high as it is, with ex's going psycho and killing/harming their previous loved ones, harming children from that "marriage", themselves, or others, it pretty much is harm to justice and peace.
This is not the first time that Pope Benedict has vocally opposed same-sex marriage.
Earlier this year, the Associated Press reported that the religious leader had denounced gay marriage as being "insidious and dangerous." Previously, he had called same-sex unions "a threat to humanity."
See above; if Gay marriage is a threat, then all marriage is a threat and thus all marriage should be abolished and instead Civil Unions take their place. If you want a "marriage", go to a church and be "married in the eyes of Gawd" or whoever. But to the rest of the world, we're all in Civil (or Uncivil) Unions.
some threat) !! Hetero marriage, in a lot of cases, is ****ed regardless of what the gays do.
