Chicago's Cardinal George Says Gay Marriage Advocates Have 'Lost Touch' With The Human Race, Rips Ci

[unhappycamper]

Chicago's Cardinal George Says Gay Marriage Advocates Have 'Lost Touch' With The Human Race, Rips Civil Unions
By Chuck Colbert, Windy City Times
First Posted: 01/12/11 04:40 PM Updated: 01/12/11 04:40 PM

he Catholic spiritual leader of Chicago visited Boston College recently, where a doctoral student pressed Cardinal Francis George about the Church's recent opposition to civil-unions legislation recently passed by the Illinois General Assembly.

George told student John Falcone his "argument was not with Mother Church but with Mother Nature," adding that anyone who advocates same-sex marriage or its equivalent "has lost touch with the common understanding of the human race."

"No one has the right to change marriage," George went on to say, neither "the Church" nor "the state."

While it is one thing "creating laws so that people don't feel persecuted," the cardinal explained, "don't create a law that says apples are oranges." For a lawmaker to do so, George added, he "betrays his vocation to pass good law," especially problematic for a "Catholic lawmaker."

Like many Catholic families with LGBT family members, even his own, George acknowledged his oldest nephew is gay and a "fine man."



unhappycamper comment: This is just one of the reasons I am no longer a Catholic. :(

[xchrom]

1. conservative catholics are devouring their own church. nt

[marmar]

2. Irony: An official of the Catholic Church claiming that someone has 'lost touch' with the human race

Yet another example of their irrelevance.

[Smarmie Doofus]

3. Sounds like they're getting the camps ready.

"Lost touch with the human race"??

A certain, charming, post-1936 quality.

[Tesha]

4. I wonder if he has a cat named "Mr. Bigglesworth"? (NT)

[pgodbold]

5. Incalculable bastard. More like we flee the human race to get away from ass-wipes like Georgie boy.

[crim son]

6. unhappycamper, I'm with you.

Any organization represented by this guy and others like him, is an organization I disdain. I would say that the Church is out of touch with God.

[jeremyfive]

7. I'm used to this crap from them--we had an irresponsible and hateful Cardinal in New York for years.

As a Lutheran, I am proud that our church body stood up against the tyranny and corruption of this hateful organization.

Protestants everywhere are reminded again today why we left.

[RetiredTrotskyite]

8. He Looks Like He Never Was In Touch With The Human Race

Sumbitch ought to worry about baby rapers in his own church instead of loving consensual same sex adult couples.

[mitchtv]

9. Dr. Evil!!!

separated at birth?

[mitchtv]

10. look...

[RetiredTrotskyite]

11. LOL

Must say there is a certain resemblance...

[laconicsax]

12. Says a guy whose job is to speculate on fiction. n/t