Just as logic has no place within organised religion.
I think I finally worked out what impresses me about Helen Clark. She's rational and does not seek to bring religion into governance. It just drives me nuts to hear the word "sin" in the debating chamber over the Civil Union Bill.
And it drove me even wilder to hear the priests in the Catholic Church tell voters to choose MPs based on the Civil Union bill because "it threatens marriage."
You know what bloody threatens marriage more? Catholic bloody priests and all the other leaders of religion that abuse and warp and destroy little children. Half the bloody priests are self-hating homosexuals themselves, so how is that going to be good moral advice for couples considering marriage?!
"Removeth the bloody Log from your own eye before you go poking around after my Splinter, thanks mate."
Do you know, I can't think of a single case of a gay couple in a long-term loving domestic relationship abusing a child. Not one. There have been many cases of single homosexuals abusing kids, or murdering/spree-killing with a brief associative relationship with another. There have been countless crimes of the same nature by single heterosexuals or heterosexual gangs. There have been so many sad and well-documented cases of nice, married, Christian heterosexual couples that rape, torture, kill, abuse and starve their kids or other people's kids to death.
So perhaps the best way to prevent child abuse and murder and violence in general is to celebrate gay unions as statistically the safest family structure?
Posted by phreq at December 7, 2004 07:06 AM | TrackBackWell, you'll be happy to know that our Catholic school does not say anything about it. Beau got a bit upset when he went to church on Sunday and had that letter from the bishops (or however they phrased it) read out to him.
Also, sorry no visit this week. But you'll be coming this weekend anyway, right?
Posted by: giffy at December 7, 2004 08:20 AMOh I know it is annoying - where is the proof that allowing gay people to marry will ruin straight marriages. There just isn't any. They should call a spade a spade and admit that they don't want gay people to have basic human rights. Damn bigots! Love thy neighbour as thyself anyone!?!?
Posted by: Emba at December 7, 2004 10:56 AMyes please... neighbours, everybody needs good neighbours, just as long as you ain't gay folk, cos then you'd have to go away... neighbours, we'll be there for any other, but if you're like that, we'll beat... your... ass.
Yep should be up in Welly on the weekend... *if* I can solve my Sock dilemma. She's still in bloody heat! So she can't go to Deb's or Charlie will have his wicked way with her, but it'll cost $120 - $180 round trip to take her with me... and kennels are ridiculous and expensive and full of nasty diseases.
TC suggested a chastity belt. I'd have a go, but honestly, a horny male dog is a force to be reckoned with. Much like the teenage human.
Posted by: phreq at December 8, 2004 03:49 PMThanks
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