The priests of the UK have written a letter in opposition of Gay Marriage,
So far it has 1000 signatures and says that allowing gays to get married will lead to persecution against Catholics.
Repeat after me. No one is going to force priests to get married to each other. No one is going to force you to officiate at the wedding of two gay people. Why would gays want to get married by a religious official who hates them. It’s like me demanding that my hypothetical future wedding be officiated by a neo-nazi.
The Outrage! Quick Geoffrey! Fetch the fainting couch!
Hello Whine Whine Whine? I need a Whaaambulance.
http://global.christianpost.com/news/gay-marriage-push-in-uk-opposed-by-1000-priests-in-open-letter-88308/
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sc_fe1bb3ef491761db0e810c06a7807404
January 16, 2013 at 9:09 AM (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
They are paranoid like our gun nuts! Both revel in ignorance.
sc_fe1bb3ef491761db0e810c06a7807404
January 16, 2013 at 9:20 AM (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
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Marcus Ranum
January 16, 2013 at 9:20 AM (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
1000 signatures? (muffled giggle)
How small your religion has become. Excellent.
Randomfactor
January 16, 2013 at 9:42 AM (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
As (I think) PZ noted earlier today, it’s all about the money. The Church will lose favored access to public facilities if they discriminate.
Igor
January 16, 2013 at 10:04 AM (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Why even now, catholic priests are routinely forced to marry men and women who are satanists or worse, atheists, in direct contravention to the priests’ beliefs and in violation of the 1st amendment. What’s next, they will be forced to officiate divorces and give last rites to homosexuals? And to think Come to think of it, I should have been more offended when a Russian Orthodox Priest refused to oversee my Bar Mitzvah after accusing me of killing Jesus.
johnmckay
January 16, 2013 at 10:23 AM (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Whine? Don’t you know all the cool kids say whinge these days?
sillose
January 16, 2013 at 1:31 PM (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
maybe theyre afraid they will have to marry children before they can rape them? thats next you know, a law that forbids the rape of a child unless youre married. maybe even makes it flat out illegal! its a slippery slope people!
opposablethumbs
January 16, 2013 at 4:03 PM (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Same as whaaaambulance for ambulance – it’s because it rhymes with “nine nine nine”, the emergency services phone number.
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And yes, oh dearie me those poor, poor priests all up in arms about losing a little more of their precious special status and the freedom not only to exercise their bigotry but to impose it on everybody else too. Why they’re positively martyrs to their beliefs, the poor little homophobic misogynist child-rapists that they are.
StevoR, fallible human being
January 16, 2013 at 5:43 PM (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Fainting couch fetched. Oops, no, sorry, that’s the farting couch instead!
Oh dear, poor priests having to live in a world where homophobia isn’t the usual acceptable prejudice and peopel just don’t care about the Pope’s pronouncements anymore.
Love is love,
People are people,
God isn’t there.
Get over it.
michaelnicholson
January 17, 2013 at 1:54 PM (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Why? How would that be different from the B&B case?
If we assume for a moment that the government makes gay marriage offical, then why should these people get an exemption from performing their duties on grounds of religious
bigotryindoctrinationbeliefs?