Funny you’re an atheist and a socialist, why are you living in Canada, why not move to Europe where you will have more people that will listen to you and not question your gospel.
I was born here. Became an atheist and a socialist here. Why not? Canada is a country that has gained much from democratic socialism and the spearation of church and state.
and why Reverend Blair ? thats not fitting of a (man) of your mindset.
I'm ordained. I can even get parking passes for my car. Jealous?
Does that make it any less legitmate than your faith? How?
No you are to correct me, now what faith ?
Same church as a couple of those TV preachers that beg for money, actually.
Pssst...you'll have to ask the Rev. I have my suspicions, but it's really up to you to ask him, and him to tell you, if that is what he wishes...
It's not a secret. We're just dealing with a man too lazy to do his research, Vanni. I enjoy laughing at people like him. I was ordained in the United Life Church. They've been ordaining anybody with return postage for decades, now they do it on the internet. It's free.
But gays do have equal rights... I don't understand? Don't you have the right to benefit plans, pensions, etc. just like any other common law relationship?
After a long and hard-fought battle they do have those rights. Those are often contested by families though, which leads to a whole other set of legal problems...many of which would melt away with government-recognized marriage. They want the right to marry the people they want to for more basic reasons than money though. Most people getting married haven't got a will or even considered the legal implications. They really just want to make their commitment official, have a party, and announce to their friends and relatives that they've found somebody.
Nobody tried to stop me from marrying Mrs. Rev (her mother still seems a little miffed at times though :wink: ) so what the hell business is it of anybody's if two men or two women want to marry each other? It isn't. They are human, just like us. To deny them a portion of that humanity because they missed out on the tab A into slot B programming makes us all a little less human.
If this the case, then why take a Christian based ceremony - marriage - and try and make it not Christian? If there are churches that will recognize your civil union that's great. .. but why call it marriage?
It isn't a Christian based ceremony. It pre-dates Christianity, Judaism, and recorded history. To impose the Christian bible on marriage is to deny human history.
You cannot be a practicing Christian and be a homosexual because it is against the Bible's teachings.
So I guess the gay Catholic Priest I know (no, he's not a pedophile) is not a practicing Christian?
By your logic people who eat seafood cannot be christians?
I thought "eating seafood" was an indication that you weren't gay...unless you happen to be a woman, I guess. Then it would make you a lesbian. Or maybe not...there is a '70's porn movie where one girl explains to the other that they aren't lesbians, they're just trying to keep warm. No word on whether they were Christians, but they did seem rather forgiving when the escaped convict showed up...
