President Obama: Homosexual Unions Equivalent to Marriage

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Catholic Online) � The President stood confident at the podium when he addressed a crowd of nearly ecstatic fans Saturday night, Oct. 10, 2009. He promised those assembled for the Banquet of the �Human Rights Campaign�, the leading homosexual activist organization in the Nation: �You will see a time in which we as a nation finally recognize relationships between two men or two women as just as real and admirable as relationships between a man and a woman.�

Lest anyone be confused concerning the meaning of his words here is another excerpt: �� I support ensuring that committed gay couples have the same rights and responsibilities afforded to any married couple in this country. I believe strongly in stopping laws designed to take rights away and passing laws that extend equal rights to gay couples. I've required all agencies in the federal government to extend as many federal benefits as possible to LGBT families as the current law allows. And I've called on Congress to repeal the so-called Defense of Marriage Act and to pass the Domestic Partners Benefits and Obligations Act. And we must all stand together against divisive and deceptive efforts to feed people's lingering fears for political and ideological gain.�

Tony Perkins, President of the �Family Research Council�, and a leading Evangelical Protestant voice, in an article entitled �Homosexual Activists Go GaGa for Obama�, described the implications of the speech in these words: �One thing was clear from Obama's speech -- his goal (like that of homosexual activists) is not simply equal legal rights. It is, rather, to overturn millennia of moral teaching that has acknowledged the harms of homosexual conduct and the unique benefits of marriage between a man and a woman. He dismissed those values as "outworn arguments and old attitudes," while decrying the grassroots campaigns to defend marriage as "divisive and deceptive efforts to feed people's lingering fears for political and ideological gain. In other words, if you hold to traditional values, the ultimate goal is simple -- to silence you. President Obama told HRC, "[D]o not doubt the direction we are heading and the destination we will reach." That's a warning the American people should heed.�

I write as a Catholic Christian to a mostly Catholic readership. Let�s be clear. The Catholic Church will not change its position on the nature of authentic marriage because it cannot. Truth is not up for grabs. However, after Saturday night, the efforts through legislation and the courts to undermine authentic marriage by expanding its definition to enforce a �legal equivalency� for homosexual partnerships have now taken a quantum leap forward. The leading voice for this Cultural Revolution is now President Barack Obama. Anyone who dares to question whether such a legal equivalency serves the common good were called �divisive and deceptive.�

That, of course, includes Catholics who really believe what the Magisterium (teaching office) of the Catholic Church teaches. By insisting that marriage remain what it has always been, we now stand in a precarious place in this Nation we love. Among the clearest summaries of the teaching of our Church was that which was set forth by then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XI) in the �Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons� promulgated in 1986. Here are just a few of the clearly stated insights:

�The Church, obedient to the Lord who founded her and gave to her the sacramental life, celebrates the divine plan of the loving and life-giving union of men and women in the sacrament of marriage. It is only in the marital relationship that the use of the sexual faculty can be morally good. A person engaging in homosexual behavior therefore acts immorally.�

�To choose someone of the same sex for one's sexual activity is to annul the rich symbolism and meaning, not to mention the goals, of the Creator's sexual design. Homosexual activity is not a complementary union, able to transmit life; and so it thwarts the call to a life of that form of self-giving which the Gospel says is the essence of Christian living. This does not mean that homosexual persons are not often generous and giving of themselves; but when they engage in homosexual activity they confirm within themselves a disordered sexual inclination which is essentially self-indulgent�.

�As in every moral disorder, homosexual activity prevents one's own fulfillment and happiness by acting contrary to the creative wisdom of God. The Church, in rejecting erroneous opinions regarding homosexuality, does not limit but rather defends personal freedom and dignity realistically and authentically understood.�

What is clear is that faithful Catholics cannot accept the undermining of authentic marriage. Homosexual sexual acts, even if engaged in with one ...

'richard" I believe Greg Heffernen story of 10/15/2009. When i went back to school last year for computer training I found surprisingly that the professors where completely engaging in indoctrinating us into their liberal political bias. They taught that homosexuality was healthy and perfectly fine and that you were wrong if you thought other wise. It not surprising that homosexuality has been removed from the DSM (Diagnostic Statistical Manuel of Psychiatric Disorders)as a disordered precisely the professionals removing as such are themselves disorder, they are homosexuals. That fact only should make the reevaluation of this disorder illegitimate.

I have learned from the Micheal Moore films that the things that permeate our society do themselves come from the top and from leaderships. Anti-intellectualism is no exception, anti-intellectualism comes from intellectuals and these institutes of higher learning, where pride is the norm and humility and suffering are seen as disordered. That is why Christ said that no one can come to the Father except me. Christ who lives in the highest exultation took humblest road.

However in this intellectual circles and ironically no one listens to reason when they want what they want. Reason, itself only becomes a tool to attempt to justify their psychological and emotional appetites. That men and women are biologically complimentary and therefore are at no doubt to be the psychological norm does not persuade these people to accept homosexuality as abnormal, even in title, which is actually insane.

The debates that manifest themselves are insane, we now have gotten into this practice where the most obvious theorems have become debatable, that water is 'wet' for instance becomes a debatable subject. When we acknowledge to these homosexual groups and their supporters that we never agreed on this re-designation of homosexuality as being psychologically normal, we are ourselves castigated as psychologically disordered. We are 'homophobes' and bigots.
I can not even justify this new disorder of homophobia. I cannot believe that is a legitimate psychiatric disorder and even if it is we do not all share that disorder because we do not believe that homosexuality is psychologically healthy. On the contrary homosexuals have become a political force and we have a right to disagree with their position and their ambitions for our lives in this country.

Is it not a fact that medical community here in America is in a catastrophic state both in terms of American access to health care and in terms of the philosophical approach to the health care that is presently being provided? Abortions, euthanasia, cancer treatment with neither cure or compassion for the chemotherapy patient and of cousre the state of psychiatry in America.

The American health care system has been as staunchly defended by many Americans as 'the best in the world' similarly to the American military to the point where it has not gone under series evaluation on philosophical basis for years.

I do not say it in any way to slander our military but from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan not mention Vietnam we have witnessed the limitations of our armed forces and perhaps the fault lies in how the military is being used. However, it is not this infallible ghostly power which can cure and shape the world in any fashion it sees fit and neither is the medical community here in America, it can be infected and it can it can go bad and can have errors.
I think that homosexuals are de-facto a subversive community who want to harm society which is why they try to make all these social destabilizing changes and currently they are rooted in our Institutes of higher learning our medical communities and even in the Church.

David | 10/27/2009

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