Comments for Defining Marriage Down at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 5 out of 5 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Wed, 22 May 2013 09:42:32 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2008/defining-marriage-down.html#comment-117 The root problem is not so much defining marriage down as defining sex down. Once we separate the pleasure of sex from its biological function, to create children, there is not any logical place to stop. Homosexual intercourse is unnatural in this sense, but it is also unhealthy. Male and female bodies are complementary-- the parts are supposed to fit together. Not so within the same sex. Homosexuals should be respected, but homosexuality is a disorder, homosexual sex should be discouraged. - Mike Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:04:59 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2008/defining-marriage-down.html#comment-107 ... the human person is, as man or as woman, and how the common life of man and woman can acquire a legal form. If, on the one hand, their living together becomes increasingly detached from juridical forms and, on the other hand, homosexual unions are seen more and more as having the same status as marriage, then we are confronted with a disintegration of the image of man, which can only have extremely serious consequences." This was written by Joseph Ratzinger in 2004. - Juan Jose Wed, 22 Oct 2008 13:35:12 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2008/defining-marriage-down.html#comment-106 There are many valid arguments against same-sex marriage. But just recently I encountered one of the most powerful arguments I\ve read in a while: "In tawdry contrast with [cohabitation] is the demand for domestic partnerships between homosexuals, who now paradoxically are demanding a legal form that would be equated more or less with marriage. This trend departs completely from the moral history of mankind [...] Here we are dealing, not with discrimination, but with the question of what the ... - Juan Jose Wed, 22 Oct 2008 13:34:50 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2008/defining-marriage-down.html#comment-104 "Still, same-sex partners often provide a good upbringing, and that is to their credit." I cannot believe that those words are in a Catholic publication! Shame. Intentionally depriving children of a mother and a father is nothing short of child abuse, not to mention the sexual depravity that is the norm rather than the exception for homosexual couples. There is nothing "good" about that upbringing and certainly nothing for which a respectable Catholic theologian should "give them credit." - Sandia Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:11:36 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2008/defining-marriage-down.html#comment-103 Justice demands that equals be treated equally, but homos qua homos are not the equal of heteros qua heteros, in precisely the same way that those who surrender to the temptation to steal are not the equals of those who resist. That is the underlying moral truth that must be insisted upon. It is the same moral truth that used to prevent the adulterous husband from marrying his mistress in addition to, or instead of, his wife: the adulterous relationship is not the equal of the licit one. - James the Least Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:14:48 +0100