This time you be Frank!

Let's be Frank about this!

I don't know how much of this story is true, or even if any of it is true, but the fact of the matter is that just debating the subject tells a lot about the state of society and all this political correctness crap!

A bunch of us were sitting around shooting the breeze and one of the guys, who is getting married, remarked that since it was in a Catholic Church he would have to get an annulment before he could get married in the church again.

No problem.

Acknowledge the Church and give them their pound of flesh.

So, what he was going to do was get married in a civil ceremony first, and then a Church wedding after it was cool with the Pope!

Great!

The conversation then took a turn.

(This is what got me thinking, and then behind the old keyboard again.)

Someone remarked that weddings are going to be more like European ceremonies anyway (first a civil and then a church wedding) since there is a lot of trouble brewing between gay marriages and the Church.

The problem is, and the rumours spread, about how the government might say that the Church HAS to perform gay marriages, and this would lead to a lot of the priest re-signing since it is against the "Faith."

All this is, of course, purely conjecture.

But, the fact of the matter remains that we once again have a situation where a small minority might be holding the overwhelming majority of us to ransom.

There was enough trouble in the United Church when they lost a good part of their flock due to this "gay marriage" thing, and I can see it spreading to other Denominations as well.

If we are going to keep gay marriages on the books then let's make it a civil ceremony only and hope that the Church has enough wisdom to stay well clear of the whole mess!

Things are queer enough already!

Your "Pious" author;
Allan W Janssen

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-Well, Allan, you'll probably have LOTS of comments on this subject. I think I'll leave the opinions to the rest of them. :)
Barbara M

-Allan my thoughts. Why should straight people get to be married but gays only get civil unions. They cant fu*k up the institution of marriage any worse than straight people have. Marriage is not a religious ceremony. Many people get married in a church but it is not a requirement. I think people need to get over themselves. How are 2 people who happen to both be male or both female getting married going to impact my life directly. Am I going to have to pay extra taxes because of it? Am I going to get my health insurance benefits at work cut because of it? Am I going to have to fill up their car with gas because of it? vThe answer to these and 1000 other questions is NO.
Lori F

-Things are queer enough already! Like what, the persistent fact that half of all marriages that are legal already, end in divorce? Viva la "family values"!
Eric L

-Eric... with a 50% success rate ya gotta think twice about gettin hitched, and Lori you know as well as I that a church wedding is not possible in most churches so why even bring it up!
Allan

-Allan, exactly, so with that in mind, a statistic like that doesn't exactly give those who advocate only the straight married people reason to ride on such a high horse!
Eric L

-Umm Allan your article was about church and marriage so that would be my reference to church. In the future do you want to just answer for me and make sure I get the point.
Lori F

-My husband and I got married here in the LA and then went to England to do it again for family. It was in a church and instead of the traditional ceremony the minister simply blessed our existing marriage. That should work!
Georgiana S

-Oh, Lordy...be...I have thought long and hard about this for many years and have come to the conclusion that if two people, both male or female love one another, who am I to say it is wrong? Sometimes it takes a life time to find the right person or even anyone you have finally decided to spend the rest of your life with....it doesn't take two of the same sex to do this. Isn't it all about one thing? Love. And the last time I checked there isn't enough of it to go around. Most of us are straight but all of us have our idiosyncrasies, dislikes, and diversities. It should only matter inside, i.e. what's in your heart, your humanity, how you treat another, i.e. respect, compassion.....so on and on. If anyone is so tightassed and tradition driven, well then, God did have siblings, they are PERFECT!
jeni e

-My English Professor, who introduced me to UUism, got a letter from her exhusband about 15 years after their divorce. He wanted to marry his girlfriend; she is catholic; the church wouldn't marry them until my professor signed the annulment papers. You know where she told her ex to shove them? ;)
Veronica Hosking

Allan W Janssen is the author of the book The Plain Truth About God (What the mainstream religions don't want you to know......!) and is available as an E-Book H E R E ! and as a paperback H E R E !

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