Yesterday on Ongline #157, I voiced my frustration of the religious right’s discriminatory act. They want to amend the Constitution to re-define marriage as ONLY between a man and a woman.
Today, the Vatican chimed in with their two cents. Hate some more!
The Vatican, the supposedly “Mother Church”, and I use quotation because my heart and mind know it is wrong. I just can’t even begin to imagine God being this hateful. Hateful enough to write a 60-page document on how to hate. Quote from Reuters about the article:
“It listed these threats as homosexual marriages, giving gay couples equal legal recognition as married heterosexuals, lesbians demanding the right to bear children through artificial insemination and gays who want to adopt children.”
How do gay marriages threaten marriages? I may be a “log cabin Catholic”. I am a Christian. I am also gay. The day I felt the most Christian is the day I accepted my sexuality. That was the day I stopped hating myself. Ironically, that was also the day the religion who taught me truth and love started to hate me. Hate frosted with love is still hate in the core.
You! Pope, some Bishops, some Priests, some religious leaders, some “Christians”, can you please keep your hatred within your own bubbles. I don’t even expect the “church” to bless the love between Bruce and I. That has already been taken care of when we fell in love. I don’t need that. But I do want to demand for equal rights in the society I live in, and hopefully for everyone around the world. Unlike the “church” who teaches discrimination. Apparently, “giving gay couples equal legal recognition as married heterosexuals” is a threat! In plain language, “don’t give gay couples equal legal recognition.” Oh, it doesn’t sound too far from their public intention either!
“Church”, it’s time to pull your head out of your behind. And start to see love. Perhaps it requires homosexuals to pull your head out of your ass so that you can see love. Talking about irony.
John, u r not alone ! all the gay couples out there, time to speak up !
Everyone who doesn’t believe in dicrimination and hatred SHOUD speak up now. The bigots are getting more and more gutsy.
here’s what you do. You get hundreds of thousands of gay and lesbian Americans to leave work on the same work day. You all head up to the US/Canada border in multiple major locations on the same day or the same day later. You stage a mass demonstration. And then on cue and en mass you ALL cross into Canada and tie up the border for a DAY maybe more..a WEEKEND in a symbolic demonstration.
We Canadian gays also amass on our side on the SAME day you thousands try to cross into our side, to welcome you – we tie up the border on our side; for the same weekend…
When some of you get to our side we hol symbolic marriages – or real ones- right on our side of the border crossing. You all cross back in MARRIED, symbollically or really…
And we call it…. the EXODUS RALLY !! 🙂
I’m serious – set the leaving work date as Thursday August 31st, 2006 and the border crossing date as September 1st, 2006. Labour Day weekend.
Hi John!
One good thing is they will never get 60 votes to stop debate, let alone the 66 they need to pass it to go to the states.
Here in Illinois, they are trying to get an advisory referendum on the ballot for the same thing. read the story at http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/state/14763331.htm
I have volunteered 2 different nights this week and going through the petitions here in Chicago. Finding a LOT of bad signatures – it probably won’t be on teh ballot. Info at http://www.fairillinois.org I feel good that I am helping to defeat the bigots in Illinois.