Posts by Tess Rooney
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Which is lovely, and fine, and they [the Catholic Church] can have whatever definition of marriage they like. It's just completely, utterly irrelevant to the law.
Well, not totally irrelevant since individual Catholics are allowed to participate in the democratic process as well. I'm going to vote as per my conscience, as do you.
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And that's my baby juice perma-curdled. Little old ladies with rosaries scare me... :)
And so they should... There's no power in the 'verse that can stop them.
I'm a Billings Ovulation Method teacher (NFP) and I always get mildly scared when little old ladies tell me about how lovely cuddling with their husbands was (or is), and how wonderful cuddling naturally was. I tell you, that look in their eye keeps you awake at night. :)
Sadly of course, this is my future too. And eventually I will have to embrace it.
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If I was heterosexual and infertile, nobody would question my right to marry.
That's true. Although you know that every old lady in the parish would be praying for you to be fertile again and there would be rosaries upon rosaries offered for it :)
The point is that the form of heterosexual sex isn't sterile, even though individual couples may be. I mean we're talking about a belief system that disagrees with contraception. So whilst people may disagree with the Catholic definition of the sacrament of marriage, it is consistent.
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a marriage in a Catholic church could be called a "Catholic Marriage"...They could even issue supplementary (and legally inconsequential) paperwork if they want.
Already happens.
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It's pretty obvious that there are more than one definition of marriage about.
My definition of marriage is the one that the Catholic Church teaches. Marriage is about a union of two people, but it's also about a man and a woman having sexual intercourse and making babies. In fact it's not licit for a couple to refuse to have children in a Catholic marriage. Likewise it's not licit for a baby to be conceived outside a woman's body, eg. IVF.
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Erk, that wasn't very clear. Let's try again...
last time I looked, the Catholic Church still doesn't recognise any marriage not conducted under its auspices
We got our civil marriage solemnised in the Church because of that.
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We got our civil marriage solemnised in the Church because of that.