RIMOUSKI, QUE, March 27, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Quebec’s
Catholic Bishops
have published an article saying they do not object to homosexual civil unions
as such legislation is being considered by Quebec legislators. Writing on behalf
of the Quebec Bishops Conference (L’Assemblée des évêques
du Québec – AEQ), Bishop Bertrand Blanchet of Rimouski said, "Civil
law should not be conformed on every point to the morality of one religion."
Published in the March 18th edition of the French language Quebec paper Le
Soleil and on the AEQ website, the article notes that "To not object does
not mean to approve or promote."
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I wonder how many people in Nazi Germany played those same semantic
games about what was going on then. I can easily imagine them saying the same
garbage about why they didn’t say anything. “All
that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” -Edmund
Burke. I would classify not objecting
as the same thing as doing nothing. You will know them by their indifference.
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Uh, you think gay people being in love and wanting to marry is the same as loading Jews into trains and gassing them? Or are you intentionally making an absurd comparison? For one, it darkens the concept of what we should embrace – love between individuals, and two, it dreadfully disrespects the plight of the Jews in WW2.
Jester, thankfully, I’ve got a blog to rub people like your’s noses in the crap they spew. Check it out.
Or better, here.
And where did I make such a comparison. I mainly talked aboutpeople coming up with excuses instead of speaking out. I did not make any moral equivalence of genocide and same sex atrraction, nor would I make such an absurd comparison.
You might now agree with the Catholic faith but the Bishop should speak out against what the Church sees as sin and not just go along with the secular crowd – this is the point I was making.
Sorry Jody you created a straw man to attack. My complaint was with the Bishop who doesn’t object to what goes against the faith, just as some Bishops didn’t not object in Germany.
There was a lot going on in Germany beside loading Jews in trains, this is where there policies ended up. They started with euthanization and sterilization of the handicapped and retarded and built up from there. There were many indicators before the anti-semitic policies came into full swing.
Sorry, kiddo. No straw man here. You were the one who suggested the link between standing by as the evil of Nazis took hold and civil unions — secular civil unions. It’s the most patently absurd analogy I’ve read in recent memory.
There was a lot going on in Germany besides loading Jews onto a train — they also loaded quite a few homosexuals too. And while you can debate the RCC’s actions regarding the Jews in Nazi Germany, there’s no debate on the RCC actions regarding homosexuals. at that time. The RCC bishops standing aside now is an far better, and more benign, than what they did in 1930’s Germany.
Not just homosexuals were loaded, there were also many Catholics that were shipped off to the camps and also died there. What do you mean there is no debate on the Churches actions regarding homosexuals at that time. How was the Church encouraging or praising any group be sent off to camps. What documents show this. The Churches beliefs at that time are no different then they are now. Truth doesn’t change with time, culture, or phony enlightenments.
I agree with jody on this point: “There is no moral evil in allowing gay men and women the same civil protections for their committed relationships as straight men and women get for theirs.”
If you (or the church) find it violates your sense of the solemn sanctity of marriage then the church doesn’t have to recognize it. The government will.
Kurt, since recognition of marriage between same-sex individuals is a matter of morality that concerns both the Church and the state, the Church is well within its rights to maintain that the state should not recognize it.
apparently from the article the quebec catholic bishops is doing just the opposite
Unfortunately, so.
Jeff, truth changes all of the time. The belief that it doesn’t remains eternal. And yes, Roman Catholics got caught up in wave too — but the RCC thought to defend them. It didn’t care when homosexuals were put into camps during the war, and didn’t speak up about them remaining in jail afterwards.
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