The California Catholic Conference (CCC), which represents Catholic bishops and by extent the Catholic Church, has up and endorsed Proposition 8 here in California. It’s shocking, I know. Simply shocking. Passage of Prop 8 would amend the state constitution to recognize marriage only between a man and a woman, effectively overriding the state supreme court decision earlier this year (hallelujah! amen! hand to the sky!) which extended that right to gay couples.
Today in the San Francisco Gate, the CCC backed up their stance by stating “only a relationship that can produce children should be called marriage.” I guess that means that my marriage isn’t valid since, despite all the practice, we can’t produce children. And apparently my grandfather’s marriage is bogus, too, since he and his second wife got married long after her eggs shriveled and dried up. It’s the Catholics, not the gays, that are threatening my matrimonial state.
My favorite part of this story is the CCCs stance, as reported on NPR this morning, that children can only be properly raised by a mother and a father. If all else fails, pull “the children” card. Cuz, you know, the children need to be protected. From gay parents.
Isn’t this extra peachy with homemade whipped cream on top? Members of their clergy rape children—for years, destroying countless lives—while the Catholic church looks in the other direction, shuffles offenders from parish to parish, and even promotes a few of them. And now the church says it knows that having a mommy and a dadddy is what’s best for kids?
Fuck them, I say.
Fuck them.
12 responses so far ↓
1 LilSass // Aug 5, 2008 at 2:50 pm
I was refraining from posting on this topic myself though I love how stick-it-to-’em you are. Not to mention … should people who aren’t allowed to marry be able to make a statement on marriage? I’mjustsayin
2 San // Aug 5, 2008 at 3:06 pm
You mean, f*** them .. LITERALLY, right?
3 San // Aug 5, 2008 at 3:08 pm
Oh yeah, and since when are children part of a marriage… they can be the product of marriage, but I thought marriage can only be between TWO people.
Their reasoning makes NO SENSE whatsoever.
4 bonzize // Aug 5, 2008 at 5:28 pm
Amen (so to speak)
xoxo
5 Jenn @ Juggling Life // Aug 5, 2008 at 8:02 pm
Some things make no sense.
6 jillian // Aug 6, 2008 at 5:59 am
Great. I wake up, casually check your blog - only to find out that my marriage isn’t real! WTF? As if infertility hasn’t made me feel inadequate enough, a bunch of old men have to try and make me feel worse about it. If I was Catholic I might give a rat’s ass what they thought.
The Catholic church’s track record with children leaves them without a leg to stand on. They should still be praying for their own forgiveness and leave everyone else alone.
7 Jenn, aka JeSais // Aug 6, 2008 at 11:01 am
amen sistah!
8 Leslie // Aug 6, 2008 at 11:52 am
Right on girl!
I’m getting married next month in the City Hall in San Francisco, and I personally plan to hi-five all the other couples getting hitched there, gay, straight, or otherwise…
9 Martha // Aug 6, 2008 at 8:51 pm
Another fake marriage here.
I say fuck the entire holy lot of them.
10 Tiara // Aug 7, 2008 at 2:59 am
Ohhh, so I have an “invalid marriage” due to the no kid thing! Yay!
I guess that puts us back in the “living in sin” category, which is bound to get me bonus points in hell…
11 Melanie @ Mel, A Dramatic Mommy // Aug 10, 2008 at 11:57 am
And my mother wonders why I waiver in my faith.
12 wenderina // Aug 14, 2008 at 11:43 pm
Yes. Yes. YES.
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