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Seattle Archbishop J. Peter Sartain issues dire warning about gay marriage
'The good and strength of human society would be harmed beyond repair'
Seattle archbishop J. Peter Sartain has posted a video on his church's website issuing a dire warning about gay marriage in the state of Washington.
'To suddenly change the God-given and time honored understanding of marriage would be a very harmful thing for our state and for the world,' he says. 'Should marriage be redefined in our state the very foundational nature of marriage for the good and strength of human society would be harmed beyond repair.'
The state is heading toward a November vote on whether or not to affirm the marriage equality law passed by the state legislature and signed by the governor earlier this year. The pending vote has resulted in the law being put on hold.
Sartain says his views, 'as disciples of the lord Jesus,' are in solidarity with other archbishops in the state.
'We urge our Catholic people to uphold our consistent Catholic teaching on marriage for the good of the Church, society, husbands and wives and their children,' he says. 'Therefore, we bishops reject the redefinition of marriage as a 'civil contract between two persons.'
He insists the church is opposed to discrimination based on sexual orientation in one breath then says: 'Redefining marriage as a means of dealing with important issues of equality and respect for all persons will not achieve the goal of defending the rights of all and would overturn centuries of common law.'
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If gay people are married, banks will reuire bailouts, governments will go broke requiring "austerity", war will break out in Iraq and Afganistan , terrorists will strike the USA, oh, wait, heterosexuals have managed to do that all by themselves without any universal gay marriage acceptance!
Perhaps what this man means that if gay marriage is accepted, there will be more tolerance, more love, less repression, people may start asking for end to wars and a time of peace and stop having nasty old men in black clothes telling them what to do.
This really would be the downfall of "civilization as we know it".
If only it could come to pass!
Don't let these guys fool you, do some quick research and you will find the current heterodox marriage "institution" is an invention that became what it is only at the dawn of the 20th century.
Before then, the "god given right" was all about property rights, parent and clergy chosen spouses and general unhappiness.
Before even that, it was not uncommon for "arrangements" of more than one man or more than one woman, so all this "it's been around for centuries" is a crock of lies.
These "clerics" are fighting tooth and nail against gay marriage because with it their control structure loosens and falls away.
The plans for controling people via the sexualtiy were laid out many years ago by Plato, the greek philosopher, and it is the game plan of the vatican, basically, it says you can pass all the harsh laws you want , and people will break them, but if you can make people ashamed of themselves, on the inside, they will do whatever you want to avoid shame.
When the "victims" are no longer shamed, the rules of the game are changed, and these clerics have no other plan in the game book. They tossed out love, peace and harmony centuries ago and have nothing but fear and damnation, and when they feel threatend, they just double down on it.
Personally, I think gay marriage is a rather tame affair that does'nt challenge anything, but tries to accept the established order and fit right in.
What if the gave all the benefits of marriage, everything, to gay people, but instead called it "Fred"? Would these people still have a rallying cry ?
"Bob & Tony will get Fred next week", the announcement in the New York Times says, and all fox "news" can say is "this Fred is bringing down human society", what a wonder that would be.
A simple word change could do it all. But that never occurs to people on either side of the argument.