That's not really its central point or punchline, though, is it?It's more about the fact that the church is currently obsessing over gay marriage when it (should be) a trivial issue, and how they are using it to obfuscate much bigger issues, which makes this cartoon pretty topical rather than a dated 'LOL paedo catholics' one.
The thing I find scary is that their arguments are not that far from the KKK's arguments against mixed race marriage.. picking and choosing from the bible rather than going 'lets look on the countries which already have gay marriage and see what effect it has had'.
Ultimately, the Church's arguments all seem to come down to preserving tradition and conservatism, rather than looking at what marriage actually means from a religious viewpoint. To a catholic, marriage is joining two people as one in the eyes of God. Surely, they should just assume that if it is not marriage, then God will not see them as married, no matter what people call it... and see it as a non issue. Do they believe that the Government are more powerful than God?
I don't see many Catholics complaining about non-Catholic or interfaith marriages... which go against their tradition just as much.
Also, don't most people just call civil partnerships 'marriage' anyway, in which case their arguments about protecting the word are too late, anyway?
(The thing I find scary is that their arguments are not that far from the KKK's arguments against mixed race marriage.. picking and choosing from the bible rather than going 'lets look on the countries which already have gay marriage and see what effect it has had'.
Ultimately, the Church's arguments all seem to come down to preserving tradition and conservatism, rather than looking at what marriage actually means from a religious viewpoint. To a catholic, marriage is joining two people as one in the eyes of God. Surely, they should just assume that if it is not marriage, then God will not see them as married, no matter what people call it... and see it as a non issue. Do they believe that the Government are more powerful than God?
I don't see many Catholics complaining about non-Catholic or interfaith marriages... which go against their tradition just as much.
Also, don't most people just call civil partnerships 'marriage' anyway, in which case their arguments about protecting the word are too late, anyway?
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Mon 12 Mar 2012, 14:17,
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