While we argue in America about rights for gay marriage, most states support civil rights for gay couples and give them similar if not equal equality to married heterosexual couples.
But in Ireland, a modern and western democracy thats not even on the table, and this is the best video to argue against it I could have imagined.
http://www.marriagequality.ie/
The added shame of the Vatican (probably why the Catholic church is losing more members than any other denomination) voting against the UN rights charter to stop the outlawing of gay anal sex, apparently the vatican thinks people should goto jail for them being born gay.
Quote:
According to the Catholic Church, homosexuality is not a sin but homosexual acts are. Last night the Vatican's spokesman, Father Federico Lombardi, made a statement to the Italian wire agency Ansa saying that Monsignor's Migliore's replies had to be read in full. Obviously "the Vatican does not want to defend the death penalty as some would like to make people think,” said Lombardi.
Citing the catechism of the Catholic Church, he said that "the church is opposed to the death penalty as it is to any criminal and violent legislation regarding homosexuals." However, he insisted that this proposal was political and would single out homosexuality and lead to reverse discrimination against traditional heterosexual marriage.
Lombardi also pointed out that "fewer than 50 countries have signed the U.N. proposal; 150 have not. The Holy See is not alone in disapproving it. "
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http://blogs.abcnews.com/worldview/2...n-opposes.html
Thank you Vatican, you are only helping to push your young followers to leave your church and move away from organized religion.
Jesus would be ashamed of the Vatican, its glamor, its wealth and its corruption.
