Pope condemns Canada's gay marriage OK

Reference: VISITA "AD LIMINA APOSTOLORUM" DEI PRESULI DELLA CONFERENZA EPISCOPALE DEL CANADA-ONTARIO

What's in a word?

This debate about gay marriage has been going on for quite a time now and it is really getting very irritating. The church obviously has been against it and probably will be until the very end but I sincerely believe that this whole topic has grown out of hand. Before I go on with this rant, I will just clarify that I am for gay marriages.

The whole thing stems, I think, from the use of the word "marriage" in describing the union of two people of the same sex. The church thinks that they have a monopoly of the word marriage and would like to reserve it for the union of a male and a female who vows to stay together and as one under the eyes of the Lord.

This premise is the stand of the church, and moralists (I hate it that they call themselves that). They believe that a couple should be a man and a woman, whose sole purpose in getting married and by the way, in having sex, is to make children. See what good it did to the Philippines. :P

But I believe that this argument is wrong. People are supposed to be free, free to make their own choices and stand for them. If they want to marry to somebody from the same sex, let them be, its not as if they are doing anything bad. They just want to be happy - like you and me. They just want to be acknowledged the same way that male-female married couples are acknowledged. They want nothing more. So what's wrong with that?

The church is up in arms against it because it goes against everything that the Catholic religion stands for. Just imagine negating the very first book (Genesis) in the Bible (that God created man and woman and that they should be together) and cave in to the idea that anyone can marry anyone. That would make the very foundation of the whole Catholic belief system crumble.

Remember when the church excommunicated Galileo when he said that the earth was not the center of the universe? Or Darwin when he theorized about evolution? This may be the debate that would define our generation, our era, and our existence.

My advice, forgo the church. Just wait for politicians and the government to figure out what the people want. Or else don't vote for them again!

This is a very important time in the history of man, and I truly believe that future generations will look back and talk how primitive our ways and beliefs are. The union of two people is not just a union of the physical, but also the spiritual. And on the spiritual plain, there are no differentiation of sexes.