Yesterday, I prepared Dora's birthday dinner. She had asked for a ribeye steak dinner and it was goooood! Happy birthday Bunny!
I am still elated about the history-making legislation passed by the New York State Senate! It's made me euphoric. True to form, the religious fanatics have come out from the landfills to speak their minds. According to The Advocate,
"Archbishop Timothy Dolan and the Catholic Church in New York were among the most vocal locals in opposition. Dolan, who had very publicly urged legislators to vote against the bill, said its passage will alter "radically and forever humanity's historic understanding of marriage" and released a statement saying:
"We strongly uphold the Catholic Church's clear teaching that we always treat our homosexual brothers and sisters with respect, dignity, and love. But we just as strongly affirm that marriage is the joining of one man and one woman in a lifelong, loving union that is open to children, ordered for the good of those children and the spouses themselves. This definition cannot change, though we realize that our beliefs about the nature of marriage will continue to be ridiculed, and that some will even now attempt to enact government sanctions against churches and religious organizations that preach these timeless truths."
What a pile of bullshit! The Church has never treated homosexuals with respect, dignity, and love. On the contrary, the Church has continuously ridiculed homosexuals and has considered homosexuals as an abomination; a group who most assuredly will rot in a fiery place of torment they call hell for all eternity. Last time I checked, this attitude does not demonstrate respect, dignity, and love.
Contrary to what Dolan stated above, no one is talking about enacting government sanctions against churches and religious organizations that preach their beliefs about the nature of marriage. You have your freedom of religion. You have the freedom to choose the religion of your choice or the freedom not to believe in a god altogether. It's that simple. However, we also have a clause in the Constitution regarding the separation of church and state. The LGBT community does not want to hurt anyone. They simply want the right to marry who they choose as their life partner. Besides, don't you think you have to free your Church of all the pedophiles your church hierarchy seems adamant to protect?!?!
Mike Macalusco, the head of a group calling itself Citizens for a Decent Community, labeled gay marriage "a total collapse of morality in New York State” and said the hard-fought amendments intending to protect religious institutions were “baloney.”
Get a life Mike! If you examine other countries who have extended marriage rights to their LGBT community, you will find their countries to still be in order. There's no anarchy. But since you had to talk about morality, then let's go there. I find the alarming divorce rate sad and atrocious...perhaps immoral. After all, most of the reasons cited for divorce is "adultery." Where's your morality now butthead?!?!
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