Cardinal Dolan: Our opposition to same sex marriage can’t be ‘reduced to an attack on gay people’

[xchrom]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/03/31/catholic-cardinal-dolan-our-opposition-to-same-sex-marriage-cant-be-reduced-to-an-attack-on-gay-people/



A leading US cardinal defended Catholic opposition to gay marriage during an Easter Sunday interview, saying that sometimes the church by its nature must be “out of touch”.

The interview came days after the US Supreme Court held oral arguments on the question of same-sex marriage, which is legal in nine states but not recognized nationally because of a 1996 federal law defining marriage as between a man and a woman.

“Sometimes by nature, the Church has gotta be out of touch with concerns, because we’re always supposed to be thinking of the beyond, the eternal, the changeless,” Cardinal Timothy Dolan told ABC News’s “This Week.”

“Our major challenge is to continue in a credible way to present the eternal concerns to people in a timeless attractive way.”

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Good luck with that, fat guy in a purple dress and red beanie.

BTW, the red beanie doesn't match the purple dress. At all.

[Kurovski]

7. Oh...shit...

I don't think I really belong here at DU at all. I'm sure you have been, or will be alerted on.

Oh, slap my ass and call me Suzy.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

13. Just busting on his silly outfit.

Not sure why church high muckymucks feel like they have to traipse around in duds from the Middle Ages but they look damn silly.

[pangaia]

2. "....... saying that sometimes the church by its nature must be “out of touch”.

Boy, that says it all.


Here's a lot of the crucial statement--
"“Sometimes by nature, the Church has gotta be out of touch with concerns, because we’re always supposed to be thinking of the beyond, the eternal, the changeless,” Cardinal Timothy Dolan told ABC News’s “This Week.”

“Our major challenge is to continue in a credible way to present the eternal concerns to people in a timeless attractive way.”

“And sometimes there is a disconnect — between what they’re going through and what Jesus and his Church is teaching. And that’s a challenge for us.”

This man is such an ignorant, blind fool. He needs to, as Jesus so often was supposed to have said, "WAKE UP." Literally...

[TheMastersNemesis]

3. It's All About Controlling People's Sex Lives And Always Has Been.

If you follow all the rules about sexuality that I learned as a child you would go completely insane. At the most you would be a non functional neurotic. Besides they need more souls for their sheltered pedophiles.

Even to think about sex before marriage is a mortal sin. Watch those impure thoughts.

[Kurovski]

8. I give religion two hundred more years of life, tops.

It's their call. shape up or ship out.

[ZRT2209]

4. I'll be the judge of that

[Squinch]

5. Well, actually, yes. It can.

[Iggo]

6. It absolutely can.

I just did it.

[Eugene]

9. New York's Cardinal Dolan says gay people are 'entitled to friendship' only

Source: The Guardian

New York's Cardinal Dolan says gay people are 'entitled to friendship' only

Dominic Rushe in New York
guardian.co.uk, Sunday 31 March 2013 17.51 BST

America's most high-profile Catholic official, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, has warned that the church needs to "do better" to ensure its "defense of marriage is not reduced to an attack on gay people". But he added that gay people were only entitled to "friendship" not "sexual love".

Asked about gay marriage in a week when the US supreme court heard two cases regarding same sex marriage, the archbishop of New York told ABC's This Week: "We want your happiness. You are entitled to friendship. But we also know that God has told us that the way to happiness, that – especially when it comes to sexual love – that is intended only for a man and woman in marriage, where children can come about naturally."

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Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/31/cardinal-dolan-gay-people-friendship

[johnnypneumatic]

10. scorpions gotta be scorpions

"Sometimes by nature, the Church has gotta be racist, homophobic, and mysogynist. I've got all this dogma to support, and my diet pill is wearing off..."

[xchrom]

11. !

[dimbear]

15. Aesop was no slouch at parables. Moral: leave the scorpion alone. Life without

scorpion friends is good.

[2ndAmForComputers]

12. It can, because it is. I said it before and I'll say it again:

Do you want to keep giving people like this your money?

[backscatter712]

14. Um, yes it can.

And I don't hear these assholes spending every Sunday roundly condemning the eating of pork, the wearing of blended fabrics, or the refusal to make rape victims marry their rapists.