Homosexual “marriage” is rebellion against man’s biological limits

[ccharles000]

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=12757

Madrid, May 27, 2008 / 08:52 pm (CNA).- Cardinal Antonio Maria Rouco Varela of Madrid said this week that gender ideology and the laws inspired by it, such as those condoning so-called gay marriage, are an expression of “man’s rebellion against his biological limits.”

The cardinal’s comments are included in a new book entitled, “Interviews With Twelve Spanish Bishops,” by Isidro Catela. Sales from the book will be donated to pastoral work in Kenya.

Cardinal Rouco said the law on homosexual marriage “is a modern version of the desire to be like God the Creator and not his creatures, to not accept his law, which reveals the fundamental goods of man and of society and, therefore, guarantees the dignity, freedom and equality of mankind better than any human construct that is outside it,” he added.

The cardinal noted that human laws need not coincide to the letter with the moral law, but they must protect fundamental concepts “without which society cannot subsist.”

[Book Lover]

1. I will keep saying this until these men stop bloviating about marriage

Number of years I have been in a long-term, committed, physical relationship, with all the attendant duties and responsibilities therein: 19

Number of years Cardinal Varela can say same: 0

Do we ask the blind man to tell us how beautiful the rose looks?

[The Magistrate]

2. Men Sworn To Celibacy, Sir, Should Avoid Arguments Grounded On Biological Claims....

He is rather engaged in an attempt to transcend biological limits himself....

[ProfessorGAC]

16. Methinks You're Overanalyzing This

I don't think he could even approach an understanding of what you just said. That would be the definition of overanalysis.

The Professor

[The Magistrate]

18. Then I Shall Have To Rethink Things, Sir

For me to baffle you is like a man stepping out into the street with his shoes on his head and his hat on his feet....

Glad to see you about the place, my friend!

[La Lioness Priyanka]

20. clever.

:hi:

[DavidDvorkin]

3. Babble, babble, babble

He makes no sense at all.

[LeftyMom]

4. Nothing says Marriage Expert quite like celibate clergy.

*snort*

[lutherj]

5. The rage of Caliban at not seeing his face in the mirror. n/t

[saltpoint]

6. I would just suggest to the Cardinal that a good rule of thumb would be to

stay out of other folks' britches.

His strictures against same-sex love are largely unenforceable anyway. I don't think two women who are in love, or two men, give a hoot in hell what some Cardinal thinks about their weekend plans for Saturday evening.

And if heterosexual marriage was such a biological imperative, how come Jesus was single?

[El Pinko]

7. A man attempting to impregnate another man would be rebelling against biological limits.

Marriage is nothing more that professing love and loyalty to another person and the intention to stay with them for life.

It's not gay people's fault if the catholics have marriage confused with penetrative sex.

[noonwitch]

12. That's a very good way of putting it

That is so often the argument against gay marriage, "they can't reproduce".

[Adsos Letter]

8. Once again...the fundamental rationality of Church/State seperation...

...long may it live...

[Swamp Rat]

9. Eat me Rouco!

[Possumpoint]

10. Tell Him

The same thing I'd tell the Pope to his face. "You no playa the game, you no seta the rules."

I'm a hetrosexual male, married for 37 years. My wife and I both feel that homosexuals have every right to marry.

[supernova]

11. Who cares what the catholic church thinks?

I don't.

What is unnatural is to expect anyone to live a life of celibacy decade after decade.

[ccharles000]

15. I agree

[gratuitous]

13. So Cardinal Varela doesn't drive or fly?

I hope he doesn't eat anything that isn't grown within a mile of his home. Without fertilizers. And he should stay off the phone. Anyone who isn't within earshot when he speaks can merely ignore him, unless he's trying to rebel against his biological limits.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

14. He says "rebellion against man’s biological limits" like it's a bad thing.

Next time the good Cardinal wants to go to the United States, tell him to swim. After all, them goddammn airplanes are a "rebellion against man’s biological limits." Moving at 600 mph? Heresy!

[LeftHander]

17. Offering plates running a little low from sex scandals?

Looking to lay blame and guilt...

jerks.

[Bucky]

19. Airplanes are rebellion against man’s biological limits. Satan inspired the Wright Brothers.

Why did God make all those people gay? For the same reason he planted those dinosaur fossils. He's testing you.

[Bluebear]

21. Tell the Catholic "news" agency to lose their snarky quotation marks. It's law.