Wow- it's finally starting to happen:
http://start.earthlink.net/article/nat?guid=20050703/42c762c0_3ca6_1552620050703-654618119
http://start.earthlink.net/article/nat?guid=20050703/42c762c0_3ca6_1552620050703-654618119
ham_man said:Opposition is present as well. I will most definately be following this closely over the next few days, as I am a confirmed member of the UCC...
ham_man said:EDIT - crap, I think I hit a wrong button or something...
leekohler said:So good news isn't as reply-worthy as bad?
mymemory said:I do not see the sense of the gay marriage. Not from the church point of view at list. In such case poligamy should be accepted as well by the church. In that case crhistian churches would loose a big chunk of it institutionality.
Religions are not democracy that changes with times, people does not undertand that. A religion is one thing created by a person or a groud of them and that is it.
I understand why a gay couple would like to marry, is an impulse of feeling even closer to each other. But is not God related so far until some one discovers some sort of document written by the apostols or something but that is just Sci-Fi.
Is like (as a friend of mine was suggested the other day) to take the motorbike to the carwash
mymemory said:I do not see the sense of the gay marriage. Not from the church point of view at list
I understand why a gay couple would like to marry, is an impulse of feeling even closer to each other. But is not God related
MacNut said:The Catholic church can have whatever rules it wants, if you don't want to agree to those rules you don't have too, either go to church and not be bothered by it or find another religion. A religion is not to change its beliefs because some people say it should.
thedude110 said:...You're absolutely right that a religion shouldn't change its beliefs because a bunch of people tell that religion to change their beliefs. But religions DO change their beliefs (I'm thinking Galileo most obviously here), so I wonder where you think that line gets drawn?...
Although I agree with the general sentiment of your post, its literal interpretation would mean that the Catholic Church would still be burning Witches, engaged in the Crusades, and condoning the Holocaust through inaction.MacNut said:The Catholic church can have whatever rules it wants, if you don't want to agree to those rules you don't have too, either go to church and not be bothered by it or find another religion. A religion is not to change its beliefs because some people say it should.
True, true. But it's hard not to be cynical these days...OryHara said:the thing is that people like to bitch
crap freakboy said:Least a Christian Church should be able to forgive them of their 'sins', or did I miss the point of Mr.J.Christs main point?
thedude110 said:But religions DO change their beliefs (I'm thinking Galileo most obviously here), so I wonder where you think that line gets drawn?
crap freakboy said:Marriage in our modern world is based upon rituals that had very little to do with the Christian God, more to do with the pagan gods of old. The Christan movement adapted those rituals to their own ends. Most of the first churches were built on Pagan worship sites so as to enable the conversion of the Pagans who needed to visit the gound within the Church itself.
FoxyKaye said:IMHO, the real problem is that the Christian cult in general seems to believe it has a monopoly on public policy in the United States. I don't really give a damn whether or not any Church in the U.S. would care to marry me and my partner - however, I do when a significant number of Christian Churches want to amend the Constitution to make it a literal legal impossibility. This, of course, has nothing to do with Church at all, and in ordinary circumstances would be considered a gross violation of separation of Church and State. However, the Christian Right at large has become so filled with hubris over the past 10 years that somehow it has become their right and entitlement to tell me how to live my life.
Fair 'nuff - thanks!Macaddicttt said:I very much agree with you, but if you remember, this discussion is about a church granting gay marriage, not government.
thedude110 said:You're absolutely right that a religion shouldn't change its beliefs because a bunch of people tell that religion to change their beliefs. But religions DO change their beliefs...
Les Kern said:... and he did not give the current leaders of our country permission to use his good name to screw us and kill inocent people in Iraq. But I digress...
mymemory said:I do not see the sense of the gay marriage. Not from the church point of view at list. In such case poligamy should be accepted as well by the church. In that case crhistian churches would loose a big chunk of it institutionality.
Religions are not democracy that changes with times, people does not undertand that. A religion is one thing created by a person or a groud of them and that is it.
I understand why a gay couple would like to marry, is an impulse of feeling even closer to each other. But is not God related so far until some one discovers some sort of document written by the apostols or something but that is just Sci-Fi.
Is like (as a friend of mine was suggested the other day) to take the motorbike to the carwash
this is false. Marriage in the Christian world has its roots in civil society. Marriage is about money and taxes and property.Hector said:marriage != religion
Sorry but this argument holds no water.This tradition was so widespread in what came to be known as Western Europe that for the first 1400 years of its existence the Catholic Church decided it could not enforce any demand that couples be married in a church or by a priest. If a young couple claimed to have exchanged vows of consent -- out by the woddpile, or wherever, with or without witnesses, blessing or whatever -- they were married.